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Topic: Analyse the structure and theme of sonnets of Sidney and Spencer
The Sonnet form, imported into England from Sicily, served the most fruitful channel of
creative urge of the Elizabethan period, released from every possible shackle by the
Renaissance
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Thomas Wyatt introduced the Petrarchan
form in England in the 16 century but this was intractable to English language, so
Surrey modified it, made its rhyme scheme pliable to English language and thus threw
open the vast vista of possibilities that lyric poetry could offer to Elizabethan England
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Sir Philip Sidney defended his literary vocation in The Apology for Poetrie
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Sidney was drawing very
largely on his acquaintance with Italian poetry and was indebted to Italian models
specially Petrarch
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Sidney's opening sonnet Loving in truth of Astrophil and Stella is a text that is
distanced from immediate feeling as much as it is an intense expression of it
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In 1576, there was some talk of
marriage between the two, but it did not materialize and Lady Penelope was married to
Lord Rich
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The title suggests that Sidney was unable to distance himself from the tradition of
Platonic love celebrated by the Canzoniere of Petrarch
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The poem bears the theme of disappointed love and celebrates the
honest devotion of the poet
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It uses 12- syllabled lines or alexandrines as the verse form, instead of a
decasyllabic line
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The rhyme scheme followed is ababab abcdcdee
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In the Octave, he expresses his wish to find fine inventions for entertaining the wit of
his beloved
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He discovers that poetry
imitated cannot be genuine
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The poet sincerely loves his beloved and longs to
express it to her
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The poet yearns to make his beloved take
some pleasure from his work of art, which is begotten after undergoing so much pain
of poetic process
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Sidney's beloved would
peruse his lay, out of pleasure derived from it, which would make her acquainted with
the poet's agony, that will soon materialize into pity and pity would fetch favour,
goodwill, even divine blessing from Penelope
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For the lover, to obtain the grace of his mistress is a deeply coveted
experience, almost akin to a religious one

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