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Sir Philip Sidney
In Sir Philip Sidney's "Sonnet XXXI", the writer is addressing the moon. In the first two lines, he is commenting on the pale, sad appearance of the moon, and then, in the remainder of...
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Sir Philip Sidney
Sonnet 31 uses a poetic conceit to reflect on love. The narrator asks the moon if it is sad, and says that it must be. He then goes on to discuss love in both realms (heavenly and earthly),...
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Sir Philip Sidney
Sir Philip Sidney’s “An Apology for Poetry” was influenced directly by both Aristotle and Plato.The works of Aristotle that most strongly influenced Sidney were the Poetics and Nicomachean Ethics,...
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Sir Philip Sidney
This poem is a rather simple poem where the author expresses a romantic sentiment: I have given my heart to my love, and they have given me theirs, and because of this, we are both happier. He...
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Sir Philip Sidney
I think I'll have a go at it...it looks like an interesting poem. You're right, though, it isn't an easy one to find analysis of: stanza 1 My mouth doth water, and my breast doth swell, My tongue...
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Sir Philip Sidney
Sir Philip Sidney’s “Sonnet 31,” as a perfect example of apostrophe (the figure of speech in which the speaker talks to an absent person or an inanimate object), is a direct address to the moon....
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Sir Philip Sidney
In the vast majority of his sonnets, Sir Philip Sidney adheres to the so-called "Petrarchan" sonnet form, named after its Italian originator Petrarch. This type of sonnet originated the...
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Sir Philip Sidney
Sir Philip Sidney was an advocate of learning and wanted people to use every opportunity to better their understanding. In An Apology for Poetry also called Defence of Poesie, he defends the use of...
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Sir Philip Sidney
Sonnet 5 of Sir Philip Sidney’s Astrophil and Stella sonnet sequence is one of the most important sonnets of the entire collection. The rhyme scheme of the sonnet seems to be as follows: abab baba...
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Sir Philip Sidney
In the following lines taken from Sir Philip Sidney's "Defense of Poesy" (1595), he is discussing the current state of affairs in poetry and the writing of poetry. In (a), "our tragedies and...
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Sir Philip Sidney
"My True Love Hath My Heart" by Philip Sidney uses the literary device of metonymy. Metonymy is when someone writes about something, but does not use its name to describe it—instead he/she uses...
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Sir Philip Sidney
In this poem, a female speaker describes the intense bond she feels with and for a beloved male. The poem reiterates the basic idea that the lovers have exchanged hearts: she possesses his heart...
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Sir Philip Sidney
Given the fact that in the sixteenth century, when Sidney lived and composed his poetry, it was only really the upper classes, some of the aspiring middle classes, and a select few other...
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Sir Philip Sidney
Sir Philip Sidney's poem "My True Love Hath My Heart" is written in iambic pentameter. (This is the rhythm.) This means that there are ten syllables per line, and that the stress rests on every...
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Sir Philip Sidney
Meter is defined in scansion as the rhythm and the number of repeating patterns. A question about meter excludes structure and rhyme scheme. The meter of Sydney's "My True-Love Hath My Heart" is a...
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Sir Philip Sidney
Also known as the "Defence of Poesy," "An Apology for Poetry" was not published until after Sir Philip Sidney's death. It seems to be directed to another writer, Stephen Gosson. Sidney is not...
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Sir Philip Sidney
The rhythm, or meter, of this poem is iambic pentameter. Iambic pentameter is the most common meter in British poetry (especially pre-twentieth century), and it also the meter that most resembles...
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Sir Philip Sidney
In a particularly important passage of his Apology for Poetry, Sir Philip Sidney sums up a number of his most significant assumptions about poetry as an art. He speaks of poets as writers who...
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Sir Philip Sidney
In general, Sidney's defense of poetry (or poesie) was in response to attacks on poetry (namely from Stephen Gosson at the time) who claimed that "fiction-making" was morally questionable. Sidney...
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Sir Philip Sidney
It is from Astrophel and Stella, a fictional account of a love story - which might have some relevance to Sidney himself, but that is debate-able. "Astrophel" means star (astro) and lover (phil)...
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Sir Philip Sidney
Sidney's long essay Defence of Poesie encapsulates several ideas that are typical of Renaissance thinking. His primary intention seems to be of showing that the writing of poetry has some special...
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Sir Philip Sidney
Sidney's Sonnet 31 is replete with clever and often humorous plays on words as wordplay is an important quality in a Renaissance courtier and writer. J.C.A. Rathmell contends that Sidney's poetry...
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Sir Philip Sidney
Sonnet 21 from Sir Philip Sidney’s Astrophil and Stella sonnet sequence is a highly typical poem that exemplifies many of the standard themes and techniques of the sequence as a whole. In this...
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Sir Philip Sidney
The desire for Truth in the 16th century (1500s) was expressed in Sir Philip Sidney's poetic treatise The Defence of Poetry. In it he explains the poetical concept of mimesis, or mimetics: the art...
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Sir Philip Sidney
This is the internal conflict the speaker is experiencing. He believes he can connect with Stella if he can get her to read his writing, even if it means she does so out of pity for him. As the...