ENGL 125 Lecture Notes - Lecture 17: Philip Larkin, T. S. Eliot, Cupid
29 Apr 2019
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What ts eliot says about poets: good poets borrow, great poets steal . Great poets make it their own, cover up what they took. Poems are only original in relationship to the past. Poem: sonnet 31 by sir philip sidney. Comes from a series of sonnets called astrophil and stella. Speaker is asking if love and beauty on the moon is the same as it is on earth. Moon can draw feelings out of us, demanding a response, sometimes makes us go crazy. Four questions asked--gives some implications to his mental state. The moon is a scholar of human love . Speaker is seeing a look of love in the moon. The word love is repeated in 2 lines. Implies people who are beautiful are conceded with third question. Moon has no response--no solution to his worries. One of the first sonnet sequences in english literature. Italian sonnet, but rhyming couplet at the end.
