Sir Philip Sidney

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Sir Philip Sidney

• Sonnets

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Sonnet 31

• With how sad steps, O Moon, thou climb'st the
  skies! How silently, and with how wan a face!
  What! may it be that even in heavenly place
  That busy archer his sharp arrows tries? Sure,
  if that long-with-love-acquainted eyes Can judge
  of love, thou feel'st a lover's case I read it
  in thy looks thy languish'd grace To me, that
  feel the like, thy state descries. Then, even of
  fellowship, O Moon, tell me, Is constant love
  deem'd there but want of wit? Are beauties there
  as proud as here they be? Do they above love to
  be loved, and yet Those lovers scorn whom that
  love doth possess? Do they call "virtue"
  there--ungratefulness?

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Sonnet 31

• With how sad steps, O Moon, thou climb'st the
  skies! aHow silently, and with how wan a face!
  bWhat! may it be that even in heavenly place
  bThat busy archer his sharp arrows tries?
  aSure, if that long-with-love-acquainted eyes
  aCan judge of love, thou feel'st a lover's
  case b
• I read it in thy looks thy languish'd grace
  bTo me, that feel the like, thy state
  descries. aThen, even of fellowship, O Moon,
  tell me, c
• Is constant love deem'd there but want of wit?
  dAre beauties there as proud as here they be?
  cDo they above love to be loved, and yet
  dThose lovers scorn whom that love doth
  possess? eDo they call "virtue"
  there--ungratefulness? e
• ½ Petrarchan (abba abba)
• ½ Spencserian (cdcdee)

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What Is The Poet Saying?

• With how sad steps, O Moon, thou climb'st the
  skies! How silently, and with how wan a face!
• Indicates the sadness of the moon, sickness

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What Is The Poet Saying?

• What! may it be that even in heavenly place
  That busy archer his sharp arrows tries?
• Inquires if Cupid can reach even the moon?

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Sonnet 31

• I read it in thy looks thy languish'd grace To
  me, that feel the like, thy state descries.
• Sadness of moon attributed to love
• Asks the moon if it, too, feels the
  frustrations of love
• Claims he also feels like the moon
• His own experiences reflect lovesickness

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What Is The Poet Saying?

• O Moon, tell me, Is constant love deem'd there
  but want of wit? Are beauties there as proud as
  here they be? Do they above love to be loved,
  and yet Those lovers scorn whom that love doth
  possess? Do they call "virtue"
  there--ungratefulness?
• Asks the moon if it, too, feels the frustrations
  of love
• Series of questions pertaining to love
• Is virtue ungratefulness?

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Alliteration Personification

• With how sad steps, O Moon, thou climb'st the
  skies!

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PersonificationAlliteration

• How silently, and with how wan a face!

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Allusion

• That busy archer his sharp arrows tries?

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Sonnet 39

• Come, Sleep, O Sleep! the certain knot of peace,
  
• The baiting place of wit, the balm of woe,
• The poor man's wealth, the prisoner's release,
• Th' indifferent judge between the high and low
  
• With shield of proof shield me from out the
  prease
• of those fierce darts despair at me doth throw
  
• O make in me those civil wars to cease
• I will good tribute pay, if thou do so.
• Take thou of me smooth pillows, sweetest bed,
• A chamber deaf to noise and blind to light,
• A rosy garland, and a weary head
• And if these things, as being thine by right,
• Move not thy heavy grace, thou shalt in me,
• Livelier than elsewhere, Stella's image see.

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Sonnet 39

• Come, Sleep, O Sleep! the certain knot of peace,
  a
• The baiting place of wit, the balm of woe, b
• The poor man's wealth, the prisoner's release,
  a
• Th' indifferent judge between the high and low
  b
• With shield of proof shield me from out the
  prease a
• of those fierce darts despair at me doth throw
  b
• O make in me those civil wars to cease a
• I will good tribute pay, if thou do so. b
• Take thou of me smooth pillows, sweetest bed, c
• A chamber deaf to noise and blind to light, d
• A rosy garland, and a weary head c
• And if these things, as being thine by right,
  d
• Move not thy heavy grace, thou shalt in me, e
• Livelier than elsewhere, Stella's image see. e
• ½ Petrarchan (abab abab)
• ½ Spencserian (cdcdee)

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What Is The Poet Saying?

• the certain knot of peace,
• The baiting place of wit, the balm of woe,
• The poor man's wealth, the prisoner's release,
• Th' indifferent judge between the high and low
• Sleep assures one of peace
• it restores the keen mind
• it heals sorrows
• it is the poor mans wealth
• it allows the prisoner to wander far and wide in
  his dreams
• it treats all people the same

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What Is The Poet Saying?

• O make in me those civil wars to cease
• I will good tribute pay, if thou do so.
• Take thou of me smooth pillows, sweetest bed,
• A chamber deaf to noise and blind to light,
• A rosy garland, and a weary head
• Wants sleep to soothe him
• Seeks release sleep has to offer

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What Is The Poet Saying?

• And if these things, as being thine by
  right,Move not thy heavy grace, thou shalt in
  me, Livelier than elsewhere, Stella's image see.
• Sleep will provide reward
• Stellas image
• Theme unattainable love

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Personification

• of those fierce darts despair at me doth throw
• O make in me those civil wars to cease
• I will good tribute pay, if thou do so.
• Take thou of me smooth pillows, sweetest bed

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Metaphor

• The baiting place of wit, the balm of woe,
• The poor man's wealth, the prisoner's release,
• Th' indifferent judge between the high and low
• With shield of proof shield me from out the
  prease
• of those fierce darts despair at me doth throw
• O make in me those civil wars to cease

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Alliteration

• of those fierce darts despair at me doth throw
  

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Imagery

• Take thou of me smooth pillows, sweetest bed,
• A chamber deaf to noise and blind to light,
• A rosy garland, and a weary head

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Edmund Spencer

• Sonnets

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Sonnet 35

• My hungry eyes through greedy covetize,
• Still to behold the object of their pain,
• With no contentment can themselves suffice
• But having pine and having not complain.
• For lacking it they cannot life sustain,
• And having it they gaze on it the more
• In their amazement like Narcissus vain
• Whose eyes him starved so plenty makes me poor.
• Yet are mine eyes so filled with the store
• Of that fair sight, that nothing else they brook,
• But loathe the things which they did like before,
• And can no more endure on them to look.
• All this worlds glory seemeth vain to me,
• And all their shows but shadows, saving she.

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Sonnet 35

• My hungry eyes through greedy covetize, a
• Still to behold the object of their pain, b
• With no contentment can themselves suffice a
• But having pine and having not complain. b
• For lacking it they cannot life sustain, b
• And having it they gaze on it the more c
• In their amazement like Narcissus vain b
• Whose eyes him starved so plenty makes me
  poor. c
• Yet are mine eyes so filled with the store c
• Of that fair sight, that nothing else they
  brook, d
• But loathe the things which they did like
  before, c
• And can no more endure on them to look. d
• All this worlds glory seemeth vain to me, e
• And all their shows but shadows, saving she. e
• Spenserian Style

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What Is The Poet Saying?

• Come from Amoretti (little love poems)
• Addressed to his wife, not an unattainable love

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What Is The Poet Saying?

• My hungry eyes through greedy covetize,
• Still to behold the object of their pain,
• With no contentment can themselves suffice
• Desire to gaze on his love
• Needs to see her- painful, suffers

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What Is The Poet Saying?

• For lacking it they cannot life sustain,
• And having it they gaze on it the more
• Cannot live without seeing her
• Seeing her, they desire more

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What is the Poet saying?

• In their amazement like Narcissus vain
• Whose eyes him starved so plenty makes me poor
• Narcissus
• Greek myth, youth fell in love with own
  reflection and wasted away with yearning and
  changed into Narcissus flower
• His eyes make him poor b/c he cant see her

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What Is The Poet Saying?

• Yet are mine eyes so filled with the store
• Of that fair sight, that nothing else they brook,
• But loathe the things which they did like before,
• And can no more endure on them to look.
• Nothing else can compare
• Constant desire to behold his beloved produces a
  state of pain and grief in the speaker

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What is the Poet Saying?

• All this worlds glory seemeth vain to me
• And all their shows but shadows, saving she.
• Everything glorified in world seems vain
• A shadow compared to her

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Internal Rhyme Personification

• My hungry eyes through greedy covetize,

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Hyperbole Personification

• For lacking it they cannot life sustain,

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Allusion

• In their amazement like Narcissus vain
• Whose eyes him starved so plenty makes me poor.
• Simile

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Sonnet 75

• One day I wrote her name upon the strand,
• But came the waves and washed it away
• Again I wrote it with a second hand,
• But came the tide, and made my pains his prey.
• Vain man, said she, that dost in vain assay,
• A mortal thing so to immortalize,
• For I myself shall like to this decay,
• And eek my name be wiped out likewise.
• Not so, quod I, let baser things devise
• To die in dust, but you shall live by fame
• My verse your virtues rare shall enternize,
• And in the heavens write your glorious name.
• Where whenas death shall all the world subdue,
• Our love shall live, and later life renew.

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Sonnet 75

• One day I wrote her name upon the strand, a
• But came the waves and washed it away b
• Again I wrote it with a second hand, a
• But came the tide, and made my pains his prey. b
• Vain man, said she, that dost in vain
  assay, b
• A mortal thing so to immortalize, c
• For I myself shall like to this decay, b
• And eek my name be wiped out likewise. c
• Not so, quod I, let baser things devise c
• To die in dust, but you shall live by fame d
• My verse your virtues rare shall enternize, c
• And in the heavens write your glorious name. d
• Where whenas death shall all the world subdue, e
• Our love shall live, and later life renew. e
• Spenserian Style

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What Is The Poet Saying?

• One day I wrote her name upon the strand,
• But came the waves and washed it away
• Again I wrote it with a second hand,
• But came the tide, and made my pains his prey.
• Wants to immortalize her name

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What Is The Poet Saying?

• Vain man, said she, that dost in vain assay,
• A mortal thing so to immortalize,
• For I myself shall like to this decay,
• And eek my name be wiped out likewise.
• The speakers efforts are futile because she will
  eventually die and be forgotten

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What is the Poet Saying?

• Not so, quod I, let baser things devise
• To die in dust, but you shall live by fame
• Baser things will die, but not you
• You will be eternally famous

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What Is The Poet Saying?

• My verse your virtues rare shall eternize,
• And in the heavens write your glorious name.
• Where whenas death shall all the world subdue,
• Our love shall live, and later life renew.
• Verse has the power to make their relationship
  immortal
• Speaker believes that his lines of poetry will
  forever capture or immortalize his love
• Poem claims that verse has the power to make
  immortal the relationship between the speaker and
  his beloved

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Alliteration

• But came the waves and washed it away

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Personification

• But came the tide, and made my pains his prey.

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Simile Onomatopoeia

• For I myself shall like to this decay,
• And eek my name be wiped out likewise.