ملتقى طلاب وطالبات جامعة الملك فيصل,جامعة الدمام - عرض مشاركة واحدة - اللغة الانجليزية New plan 2nd year level 4

nooni-s · 2012- 5- 21

Sir Philip Sidney composed Astrophil and Stellabetween 1581 and 1583, most likely in the summer of 1582. A sequence of 108 sonnets and eleven songs, it is an important work in the history of English poetry for several reasons.:

•The work remains one of the best examples of its type. It plumbs the psychology of the lover, Astrophil (“star-lover”), as he contemplates the beautiful Stella (“star”), who marries another man and gives little encouragement to Astrophil because of her need to guard her reputation.
•Stella is, in a number of respects, the conventional heroine of medieval and Renaissance love poetry, but she boasts, in addition to her blonde hair, fair skin, and rosy cheeks, unconventional black eyes, as did Penelope. In several of the poems, Sidney makes pointed allusions to her “rich” husband.
•A memorable element of the Astrophil and Stella sonnets is the striking physical description of Stella. Not that description itself is unusual; the “vertical description” of the beloved, from head to toe, is a hallmark of the Petrarchan sonnet tradition. What is unusual is Sidney’s departure from the Petrarchan cliché of the blue-eyed blonde as the feminine ideal to that of a dark beauty.
•The sonnet sequence is not a novel and cannot be thought of as demonstrating a plot; rather, Sidney presents a series of emotional crises, internal—and occasionally external—conflicts, and solitary musings on the course of a love affair that is destined to remain unconsummated. Soon it occurs to Astrophil that he should be pursuing virtue and not mere earthly beauty, but he continues to concentrate, sometimes defiantly, on the latter, while at other times he justifies his course with logic-chopping mental exercises. He vows to revert to virtue, but the mere sight of Stella challenges his determination. Another problem is Stella’s coldness; her heart is a “citadel” [immune] against him, presumably because a rival already “enjoys” her. (Although Sidney may have known Penelope Devereux before her marriage, it appears unlikely that there was then any opportunity for intimacy between them.) Astrophilhesitates between regarding Stella as the essence of virtue and wondering whether her scorn should be interpreted as mere ungratefulness to a passionately devoted lover.
•Anxious to please Stella, the speaker decides to send her poetry but cannot decide how to go about writing any. “

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nooni-s أكـاديـمـي ذهـبـي الملف الشخصي: رقم العضوية : 59472 تاريخ التسجيل: Mon Sep 2010 العمر: 33 المشاركات: 881 الـجنــس : أنـثـى عدد الـنقـاط : 123 مؤشر المستوى: 71 بيانات الطالب: الكلية: كلية الآدَابْ الدراسة: انتظام التخصص: EйĠLISђ ♡ المستوى: المستوى السابع	رد: New plan 2nd year level 4 Sir Philip Sidney composed Astrophil and Stellabetween 1581 and 1583, most likely in the summer of 1582. A sequence of 108 sonnets and eleven songs, it is an important work in the history of English poetry for several reasons.: •The work remains one of the best examples of its type. It plumbs the psychology of the lover, Astrophil (“star-lover”), as he contemplates the beautiful Stella (“star”), who marries another man and gives little encouragement to Astrophil because of her need to guard her reputation. •Stella is, in a number of respects, the conventional heroine of medieval and Renaissance love poetry, but she boasts, in addition to her blonde hair, fair skin, and rosy cheeks, unconventional black eyes, as did Penelope. In several of the poems, Sidney makes pointed allusions to her “rich” husband. •A memorable element of the Astrophil and Stella sonnets is the striking physical description of Stella. Not that description itself is unusual; the “vertical description” of the beloved, from head to toe, is a hallmark of the Petrarchan sonnet tradition. What is unusual is Sidney’s departure from the Petrarchan cliché of the blue-eyed blonde as the feminine ideal to that of a dark beauty. •The sonnet sequence is not a novel and cannot be thought of as demonstrating a plot; rather, Sidney presents a series of emotional crises, internal—and occasionally external—conflicts, and solitary musings on the course of a love affair that is destined to remain unconsummated. Soon it occurs to Astrophil that he should be pursuing virtue and not mere earthly beauty, but he continues to concentrate, sometimes defiantly, on the latter, while at other times he justifies his course with logic-chopping mental exercises. He vows to revert to virtue, but the mere sight of Stella challenges his determination. Another problem is Stella’s coldness; her heart is a “citadel” [immune] against him, presumably because a rival already “enjoys” her. (Although Sidney may have known Penelope Devereux before her marriage, it appears unlikely that there was then any opportunity for intimacy between them.) Astrophilhesitates between regarding Stella as the essence of virtue and wondering whether her scorn should be interpreted as mere ungratefulness to a passionately devoted lover. •Anxious to please Stella, the speaker decides to send her poetry but cannot decide how to go about writing any. “