ESSAY; Sir Philip Sidney: Sonnet XXXI from Astrophel and Stella „With how sad steps‚ O Moon ‚ thou climb’st the skies!“ 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
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ANALYSIS OF THE WOMEN IMAGE‚ BLANCHE AND STELLA‚ IN TENNESSEE WILLIAMS’ A STREETCAR NAMED DESIRE 1. Background of Analysis A streetcar Named Desire is a stage play that written by Tennese Wiliams. It first published in 1947 and takes place in New Orleans‚ Louisiana. In this play‚ Williams presents women as powerless‚ weak‚ and passive characters who are tightly linked to their persecutors due to economic‚ social‚ and physical needs. During the time period of Tennessee Williams‚ author of the
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Patriarchal Society By Marcelle Rowbotham This essay concentrates on the portrayal of male heterosexual love within two sonnet sequences. I will be analysing Pamphilia to Amphilanthus by Mary Wroth‚ and Astrophil and Stella by Sir Philip Sidney. Pamphilia to Amphilanthus and Astrophil and Stella are cohesive in their themes of male hedonism‚ unpredictability and guile. At the time that these sonnets were written‚ females had very little power and influence in society; men were accepted as the more
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Sir Philip Sidneys Sonnet 7 is from the sonnet sequence Astophel and Stella dating from the sixteenth century. It is a lament by one of the central figures‚ Astophel‚ a man who is in love with the other central figure‚ Stella‚ who is ultimately unattainable because she is married to another man. In the first few lines of the poem‚ Astrophil talks about Stellas black eyes and how they beam so bright (ll. 2) and how in beamy black (ll. 3) she radiates beauty. The excerpt chosen begins with Or did
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The names Astrophil and Stella mean Star-lover and Star‚ suggesting the impossibility of their union because of the distance between them The sixteenth century was a time of scientific‚ historical‚ archaeological‚ religious and artistic exploration. More attention was being allotted to probing into the depths of the human psyche and it was up to the artists and poets rather than the priests and scholars to examine and mirror these internal landscapes. The ’little world of man’ [1] was reflected
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7 (October 7) Class 1: Chaucer: “The Wife of Bath’s Tale” pp. 226-234 Class 2: Mid-Term Unit 3: The Renaissance Week 8 (October 14) Class 1: “Introduction” to the 16th Century Sir Philip Sidney‚ “Astrophil and Stella‚” pp.449-455 Class 2: Continue discussion of “Astrophil and Stella” Week 9 (October 21) Class 1: Shakespeare‚ Twelfth Night Acts 1-3 Class 2: Shakespeare‚ Twelfth Night Acts 4-5 Week 10 (October 28) Class 1: George Herbert‚ pp. 659-665 Class 2: John Donne‚ Songs
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reflecting on the developing relationship between the poet and his love grew up. Though the story does not have to be literal autobiography and questions of ‘sincerity’ are hardly answered‚ Sidney’s love for Stella‚ on the artistic level‚ has been traced to love-affair of the poet’s own life. Stella is said to be Penelope Devereux‚ who did not or could not reciprocate the love and married Lord Rich. It is‚ in fact‚ owing to the predisposition of the mind created by the Romantic tradition of subjective
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The Evolution of the English Sonnet or The Corruption of the Italian Sonnet Petrarch (Francesco Petrarcha) (1304-1374): The Petrarchan Sonnet Background: • Wrote a collection called variously Canzoniere (canzone means song)‚ Rerum vulgarium fragmenta (Fragments of vernacular things)‚ or Rime Sparse (Scattered Rhymes) • Considered the Father of the sonnet‚ from Ital. sonetto‚ meaning a little song or sound • Wrote a volume containing 366 poems in the Tuscan vernacular; 317 of which are
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Elizabethan Poetry I Drama dominates our syllabus but the Renaissance was a Golden Age not just for English drama‚ but also for English poetry. But what was English poetry? George Puttenham’s The Arte of English Poesie (1589) and Sir Philip Sidney’s The Defense of Poesie (1595): early attempts to think about English poetry as a distinct national tradition. Puttenham and Sidney were concerned to build a canon and help shape English poetry into a tradition capable of rivalling more prestigious
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can be dated with certainty. Arcadia‚ a prose narrative interspersed with verse‚ combines chivalric romance‚ pastoral‚ comedy‚ and debate on ethics and politics. It survives in a complete earlier version and an unfinished expanded version. Astrophil and Stella‚ a cycle of 108 sonnets and 11 songs‚ is one of the first English adaptations of Petrarchan love poetry. By turns witty and tormented‚ it is a lightly disguised and no doubt fictionally embellished treatment of Sidney’s thwarted love for Penelope
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