Sonnet 31 (sidney) and sonnet 19 (mary wroth) analisis.

lady mary wroth

• She was the first women to publish a complete sonnet sequence and an original work of prose fiction in English.
• Born in 1587. She was the eldest daughter of Sir Robert Sidney and Lady Barbara
• Married to Henry Herbert, second Earl of Pembroke,
• By 1613 Wroth had begun her writing career
• She died in 1653. No literary works survive from the last thirty years of her life.

Analysis

Tone

• Melancholy, is a misery centrally emphazing in loneliness and emptiness and unable to see any resolution to the emotional suffering.

Themes

• The dark side of love and the impact it can have on its victims. But on the other hand this is also an acceptance of the absolute power and wonder of love as it can evoke this reaction when it is withdrawn.

Structure

• Shakespearean poem

Rhythm pattern ABAB CDCD EFEF GG

Progression of imagery

Come darkest night, becoming sorrow best;

Light; leave thy light; fitt for a lightsome soule;

Darknes doth truly sure with mee oprest

Whom absence power doth from mirthe controle:

The very trees with hanging heads condole

Sweet sommers parting, and of leaves distrest

In dying coulers make a griefe-full role;

Soe much (alas) to sorrow are they prest,

Thus of dead leaves her farewell carpett’s made:

Theyr fall, theyr branches, all theyr mournings prove;

With leavles, naked bodies, whose huese vade

From hopefull greene, to wither in theyr love,

If trees, and leaves for absence, mourners bee

Noe mervaile that I grieve, who like want see.

The Author uses

• Natural words
• Compare human state with nature
• Connects love with concept of winter and death to represent the darker side of love and impact that suffer the speaker

First Quatrain

Speaker

Attracts darkness and avoid the light

Line 3 darkness suits her to her real appearance "oppressed"

She feels unhappy due to the absence of someone

"Come darkest night, becoming sorrow best"

Second Quatrain

Use an autumnal image to express her emotions

For the speaker

• Trees and leaves are symbols for her emotional state.
• Leaves contributes with her feelings of death.

Third quatrain

became a "farewell carpet" this

represents a goodbye and that they will not see each other again.

"Hopeful green" this represents all the good moments they experienced. This plays the role of a melancholic reflection of the past.

Couplet

"Who like want her"

Means that it is not rare that her actions are like a dying tree.

Figueroa, Galmes, Rolon and Villalba

Sonnet 31 (Philip Sidney) and sonnet 19 (Mary wroth) analysis.

Sonnet 19

(Lady Mary Worth)

Night's obscurity

seems to come.

The decadency of hapiness

"The very trees with hanging heads condole"

Trees they stay naked and decrease their size

Last transition to misery as love dies and disappears with the trees.

Joy is vanishing

Summer

leaving trees behind

"Dying tree" represents her.

"who like want her" this means that is not a surprise she reacts like a dying tree

As leaves die

What is a sonnet?

• Poetic form
• 14 lines
• Iambic pentameter
• Shakespearean
• Italian

Sonnet 31

(Philip Sidney)

• He was born in England on 30th November of 1586.
• Famous of being writer and militar.
• He wrote "Astrophil and Stella" in 1581.
• He studied at Shrewsbury School and Christ Church.
• He was characterized as a big traveler.
• He died in 1586.

Structure

Analysis

ABBAABBA; CDCDEE

He use nature to express his feeling

- Italian sonnet

-Octet: The author watches the moon moving towards the sky. He realizes that it is sick in terms of love and their share the same feelings.

: He concludes that both have the same attitudes so definitely they are lovesick.

-Sestet: The writer stops describing moon's gestures and finishes the poem with rhetorical questions.

-Theme: Love

: The author is sick in terms of love

-Express his feelings comparing him with nature (moon)

Figures of speech, diction and appropriate structure

:"With how sad steps...

how wan a face".

"Are beauties there as

proud as here they be?"

: "I read it in

thy looks"

: This quote evokes the

idea that the one he

loves rejects him.