Friday, 01 January 2010
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Would You Like Your Own 'Sir Philip Sidney'?
Let me clarify. He was quite the gentleman. Brave, noble, poetic, etc.. etc.. All of which can be seen in his sonet sequence Astrophel and Stella.
He fell in love with her (Penelope Devereux, who was married off to someone else by her parents.. so he calls her stella in order to keep her identity hidden from everyone. including his wife), but she was already married. And he wrote 108 or 109 sonnets about her.
Hold up.. WHAT? 108-9 Sonnets is a lot of poetry right there. But he was so devoted and so utterly taken with her, that he wrote them, sonnets nonetheless, meaning that it probably took him forever to balance out the syllables and whatnot, seeing as it's a lyric poem and it must follow the iambic pentameter and bla bla bla.. But he loved her enough to do it.
Now my question is.. Would you like your own Sir Philip?
I bet it would be amazing. Having someone love you so much, and write lines like "Love gave the wounds which, while I breathe, will bleed" and "While tears pour out his ink, and sighs breathe out his words, his paper pale despair and pain his pen doth move. I can speak what I feel and feel as much as they. But think that all the map of my state I display, When trembling voice brings forth that I do Stella love". But would it be worth keeping him/her in lovestruck agony long enough to wright these lines, or the sonnets? I bet it would have been dead flattering, to have sonnets about you imprinted in English Literature, and History. But is it cool enough for you to forget about how pain your Sir is going through? (Read the sonnets, the guy had it BAD. Reaaaally bad). I don't mean to say that Stella (Penelope) was a bad person. She probably didn't even know he was writing them. Because they were published after his death and all... But he got married, trying to forget about her and move on, and it didn't work. And I kind of feel sorry for his wife, anyone who reads these sonnets will figure it probably wasn't her he was talking about.
At first, My answer to my question was yeah, sure, I want someone to love me this much. But I take that back. If loving me is stopping them from moving on and being happy, if it's keeping them up all night begging for sleep so they could dream of me (sonnet 39) then I don't want it. I don't want that for anyone I love.
What do you think?
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I don't think many people run into such situations now a days as not many people are married off by their parents...but I would love to have someone write poetry about me, I'd love to be a muse.
Never underestimate the power of obsessive love...
That is way too obsessive. First off, is it known if she even loved him back?
I wouldn't want a 'Sir Philip Sidney', because he didn't even live his life for him, he lived it in hopes of being able to be with her, which would be...
Writing a whole lot of love sonnets always looks like a good idea, but it requires a lot of hate as well to be able to stay focused/obsessed for umpteen rhymes. Poetry writing is basically more associated with anger and hatred than love
oh no no no. I think after the first ten poems it becomes a bit of a obsession. Besides I can't handle reading too much of his poetry anyway
I agree with you. If loving me causes someone that much pain then I don't want them to love me that much.
I'd love to have a guy sprung over me and think about me so much that he writes sonnets. this guy, who had a crush on me, did give me a poem that he wrote but it wasn't close to being a sonnet, more like a hip hop poem. I wouldn't crush on a married person though. I did something similar when I was in high school. I had a crush on this guy and secretly wrote poems in my notebook, even doodled a picture of him when I was bored in class
no. hobag should have written poems about his own wife, or not married her.
Yes, of course.
A poem once in awhile (something less stiff than a sonnet) is okay. 108 is totally stalker territory.
i would like my own mr. darcy!!! *sighh*
id imagine he wouldnt be so intense if actually had her.
Troubadours.
I was a huge fan of Astrophel and Stella in college! I named my fish Astrophel (called him Ass for short). But one must remember that courtly love was a convention then, and not necessarily "heartfelt" or "true." Love chaste and from afar was the in thing, so successful poets made up loves if they didn't have them. Sure, they could usually be traced to a real-life model (see Dante and Beatrice) in most cases, but had little to do with a love built on actual CONTACT with the object of affection. It was an ART then.