Sidney\'s autonomous work - sonnet 20, PDF

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studio di alcuni sonetti del poeta Inglese Sidney in maniera autonoma, appunti completi in preparazione all'esame. testo poetico a fronte....

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Sonnet 20 Sonnet 20 depends upon first understanding Sonnets 19 and 21. Sonnet 20, structured with three quatrains, one volta (i.e., turn of thought) at line 9, and a resolving couplet, builds upon the last six lines of Sonnet 19 and is then expanded upon in Sonnet 21. Fly, fly, my friends, I have my death wound! fly! See there that boy, that murdering boy I say, Who like a thief hid in dark bush doth lie Till bloody bullet get him wrongful prey. So tyrant he no fitter place could spy Nor so fair level in so secret stay As that sweet black which veils the heavenly eye; There himself with his shot he close doth lay. Poor passenger, pass now thereby I did, And stayed, pleased with the prospect of the place While that black hue from me the bad guest hid: But straight I saw motions of lightning grace, And then descried the glistering of his dart: But ere I could fly thence, it pierced my heart. Correte amici! Correte! Sono ferito a morte Guardate quel ragazzo, quell’assassino Che, come un bandito, si nasconde nella fitta boscaglia Finché la sua macellazione ottenuta in maniera disonesta Ed ecco che lui, tiranno non poteva vedere posto più adatto Come posto di mira un covo così nascosto Come il bellissimo nero che copre gli occhi della mia amata E così lì lui si nasconde con la sua arma Io, un passante sfortunato Fermatosi un momento ad ammirare il paesaggio Il buio nascondeva tanta malizia Immediatamente notai un movimento, veloce ma aggraziato E distinguevo il bagliore della sua freccia Ma prima che potessi scappare, fui colpito al cuore.

We know that Astrophil, the speaker in Sidney's sonnet cycle, warns his friends to "fly!"because he has received his "death wound" at the hand of the "murdering boy" who shot "his dart" that "pierc'd [his] heart" before Astrophil "could fly hence. So here we have the confirmation of the meaning of Sonnet 20: Astrophil laments that he is both lifted high and brought low in the manner of Thales in his love for Stella because his "bad guest" shot him a "death wound" for Stella with a "glist'ring dart" before he had time to flee from Cupid, the God of Love. In this sonnet, Astrophel describes the process of falling in love with Stella, an action that begins with the poet's first sight of her. He is ambushed by Cupid, hiding in Stella's lovely, black eyes. Through each of Stella's glances toward him, Astrophel is attacked by Cupid's darts. Though he sees the darts coming toward him ("motions of lightning' grace"), he is unable to escape before they pierce his heart. Analysis: Sidney takes the common Renaissance understanding of love (that love is transmitted through the eyes) and redirects the tone via a hunting scene. With his first sight of Stella, Astrophel warns his hunting companions to flee. He dramatizes love as a sort of ambush; he is no longer the hunter, having become the hunted. Yet, this ambush is still playful; Astrophel welcomes the betrayal at the hands of Cupid. In Sir Philip Sidney’s Astrophil and Stella Sonnet 20 and William Shakespeare’s Sonnet 130, both are talking about love. Love in a romantic relationship, yet they seem very different from each other.

The love object in Astrophil and Stella Sonnet 20 and Sonnet 130 by Shakespeare are very unlike, the former one fits all the conventional beauty and the latter one is opposite; the treatment of love is different as well, Sir. Philip Sidney illustrate it in a violence way and Shakespeare describe it in a more comforting way. The major difference is the distance between the persona and the love object. Astrophil and Stella Sonnet 20 is so far away, it is unreachable, and Sonnet 130 by Shakespeare is reachable and close enough to see the love object clearly. The two sonnets are so different is many ways, yet they share similarities: 1. They have resemblance themes, which is love is rare and love is lack of judgment. 2. The love relationships in the sonnets are very romantic and only the perspective of love separated them. 3. . One chooses to see love from a distance, another chooses to take a closer look. No matter what approach the poets use or what perspective the poets have, love shares its own nature of being arbitrary and let lovers see what they wanted to see. For the love object, in Astrophil and Stella Sonnet 20, Stella is a goddess that fits in all the conventional beauty and in Sonnet 130; the mistress is an opposite with Stella....