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A 5 page paper which examines the Elizabethan sonnets in detail, then compares and contrasts the nature of love in each. Bibliography lists 7 sources.
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Petrarchan sonnets were passionate odes to his love, the beautiful and elusive Laura. By the sixteenth century, Elizabethan poets wanted to adapt the Petrarchan sonnet to reflect their own
society and values. Sir Philip Sidney is widely regarded as the first to marry the Italian poetic genre with Elizabethan sensibilities, hence his nickname "the English Petrarch" (Bonnici).
His style deviated little from the conventional Petrarch structure of 14 lines, which consists of an octave (eight lines) and a sestet (six lines). There can be little doubt
that Sidneys sonnet form inspired the Bard, William Shakespeare, who continued to expand the evolutionary path first charted by the English Petrarch. As a result, the sonnet, which could
have become a relic of the Renaissance, became forever associated with the Elizabethan era. Sidneys "Astrophil and Stella" is actually a collection of sonnets (which may or may not have
been autobiographical) about Astrophils unrequited love for the married and very proper Stella. The title suggests this affair of the heart will not end happily ever after, as Astrophil
refers to someone who loves gazing at the stars and stella is the celestial focus of his intense but distant desire (Bonnici). In Sonnet 72, it becomes evident that
the initial sexual flush is still very much in evidence, but the references to the distant heavens suggest that the poets passionate ardor is not being reciprocated: 1 Desire,
though thou my old companion art, 2 And oft so clings to my pure love, that I 3 One from the other scarcely can descry,
4 While each doth blow the fire of my heart; 5 Now from thy fellowship I needs must part; 6 Venus is taught with Dians
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