Sentimentals From Sidney

 I went through the poems and Astrophil and Stella 15: You that do search for every purling spring struck me. I read this sonnet and found a few patterns but the meaning behind it was also key. Throughout the sonnet, the last word of each line seemed to rhyme with the previous one while also including the first and fourth line rhyming like of the "abba" approach. Words such as "flows" and "grows", "such" and "touch", "wring" and "bring" are a few that are included very closely together instead of being split up by other lines in between. Additionally, the sonnet has words at the end of phrases such as "light" and "endite" , or "spring" and "wring". Aside from the structure, the sonnet has meaning that readers should grasp. We know that during this time period there was a normal "set up" per say of the backstory that many readers would think of before running their eyes across the page. But what if the writer is reaching our further? In this sonnet, Sideny is often criticizing other poets of seeking inspiration from outside sources instead of writing from the heart, "Ye that do dictionary's method bring into your rimes, running in rattling rows". Poems should be written in your own words, from your own heart, and from your own source of inspiration. Stella, is alluded to the opposition of being an inspiration rather than an external source like a dictionary. He encourages people to use a Stella (like used in the sonnet) as a fantastical inspiration and to create their own. So instead of writing about the standard set up, he is criticizing and reach out to writer to branch out and think of their own way of writing aside from what society has pushed. 

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