ENGLISH LITERATURE (CBSE/UGC NET)

Detailed explanation-1: -“Astrophil and Stella” is a series of 108 sonnets interspersed with 11 songs and is about a love affair. The narrator Astrophil falls in love with Stella who he believes will be his partner in life.

Detailed explanation-2: -Astrophel and Stella, an Elizabethan sonnet sequence of 108 sonnets, interspersed with 11 songs, by Sir Philip Sidney, written in 1582 and published posthumously in 1591.

Detailed explanation-3: -Probably composed in the 1580s, Philip Sidney’s Astrophil and Stella is an English sonnet sequence containing 108 sonnets and 11 songs.

Detailed explanation-4: -Astrophil and Stella: Sonnet 33 ("I might-unhappy word-O me, I might") Sir Philip Sidney (ca. 1582) In Sonnet 33, Sir Philip Sidney employs images of heaven and hell, abduction and romance, theft and fortune, and day and night to convey the contradictory nature of Astrophil’s feelings for Stella.

Detailed explanation-5: -In this sonnet, Sidney – narrating as Astrophil – is expressing that he hopes his pity will win over his desired lover, Stella, and he is attempting to convey is love for her in verse. Hence, this poem touches on the theme of the value of poetry, which Shakespeare and Spenser did as well.