ENGLISH LITERATURE (CBSE/UGC NET)

Detailed explanation-1: -Sonnet 31, written by Sir Philip Sidney, is a sonnet that examines the range of emotions felt by a man that has been rejected by a woman. The poet explores the theme of rejection by using aspects of form, structure and language. These include form, tone, punctuation, enjambment and pathetic fallacy.

Detailed explanation-2: -In this particular poem, the speaker addresses the need to create distance between himself and his beloved. Themes of absence, separation, love, and devotion are all present in ‘Sonnet 39’.

Detailed explanation-3: -He feels that love is a virtue, but it sounds like his beloved one, Stella, doesn’t feel the same way about the lyrical voice’s display of virtue and constant love. The tone of the sestet shows that the lyrical voice is deeply wounded and the rhetorical questions accentuate this pain.

Detailed explanation-4: -Sonnet 31 is a typical English or Shakespearean sonnet, with three quatrains followed by a final couplet. It follows the form’s typical rhyme scheme: ABAB CDCD EFEF GG.