The Facts on File Companion to British Poetry Before 1600
poems to children, and, extending this metaphor, he asks his audience not to make his “children” into “changelings.” Changelings ...
loved... ,” l. 12), and as part of a plural noun and nominative structure (“those lovers scorn whom that love doth possess?” l. ...
in repression. This distancing is made apparent in the sestet, where the speaker can only employ rhetorical questions to reveal ...
express and ease emotion. Sonnet 34 marks a change in tactic for the long-suffering Astrophil, since he has now realized that St ...
Despair. Eventually he proposes an incentive: “... smooth pillows, sweetest bed, / a chamber deaf to noise and blind to light” ( ...
forth a plan to win Stella’s pity. He begins by seeking “fi t words to paint the blackest face of woe” (l. 5). In Sonnet 45, it ...
Astrophil and Stella: Sonnet 49 (“I on my horse, and Love on me doth try”) SIR PHILIP SIDNEY (ca. 1582) In Sonnet 49, Astrophil ...
he reveals to us that he has taken Love’s side in the suit, and he admits that “this demurre” puts an end or a “stay” to the sui ...
the ladies say that Astrophil cannot love. In political terms, this is effectively to say that he cannot gain the queen’s favor— ...
tient schoolboy refusing to learn, and Astrophil, while appearing clever, also appears in an unfl attering light. See also ASTRO ...
The symmetrical paradox of presence and absence created in these three lines suggest a broader shift in how the language of indi ...
During the 16th century, a double negative in English only emphasized the negative, although in Latin, two negatives did make a ...
wit, / Nor do aspire to Caesar’s bleeding fame; / Nor aught do care though some above me sit” (ll. 9–11)— before giving rein to ...
fundamental to SIR PHILIP SIDNEY’s Astrophil and Stella; it underlies many of his occasions for poetry. For the time being, howe ...
Astrophil and Stella: Sonnet 72 (“Desire, though thou my old companion art”) SIR PHILIP SIDNEY (ca. 1582) In this SONNET, Astrop ...
junctions) to good effect. With this technique, Astro- phil describes the kiss as gems, fruits of newfound paradise, breathing a ...
Fifth Song, he calls Stella everything from a murderer to a tyrant to a devil. While the form of Sonnet 86 fol- lows the ENGLISH ...
and Stella, Sonnet 87 recognizes a break in the lovers’ relationship in dramatic fashion. See also ASTROPHIL AND STELLA (OVERVIE ...
Astrophil and Stella: Sonnet 91 (“Stella, while now by Honour’s cruell might”) SIR PHILIP SID- NEY (ca. 1582) Sonnet 91 builds o ...
Only the fi fth line has any breaks in the IAMBIC PENTAM- ETER rhythm, as Astrophil intensifi es Grief’s presence by doubling th ...
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