ENG 3340 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Philip Sidney, Sonnet 40, Miscarriage
7 Feb 2017
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Mary wroth continued and start of george herbert. Compare false hope to images: flourishing and then killing, miscarriage hope for pregnancy, but it"s killed. S2- metaphors what false hope can mean in a political stance: tyrants raise people (promotes) then crushes. The first two stanzas are two different sides of violence. S4 to be hopeful but to have opposite of what hope is makes us suffer even more. Sir phillip sidney ideas in brain are linked with birth. S1 state of paradox; any way you try to satisfy love doesn"t matter. S2 deception, torture love puts you through. S3 he will gloat that he"s deceived you. S4 virtues are not, gifts not worth much of anything. S5 love is flightier than a feather, fiercer than a wolf: leave love. Why song instead of sonnet format: song typically is for love, but calling it this makes it more jaded.
