The Sidney's and Their Love Stories

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The Sidney’s and Their Love Stories
There is an obvious connection between the sonnet sequence of Lady Mary Worth’s Pamphilia to Amphilanthus and Sir Philip Sidney’s Astrophil and Stella. Not only are these sonnets sequence are similar because they are about two lovers, but there are also many sonnets from both sequences that can be related in context, rhyme and emotions. In particular sonnet seven in Pamphilia to Amphilanthus and sonnet fifty-three in Astrophil and Stella are relatable in several aspects. First of all, both of these sonnets share that they are considered a Petrarchan story. Furthermore both of these sonnets have in common the fact that in both poems Cupid ridicules the speakers, another aspect that they share is the rhyme scheme and the meter.
Both Astrophil and Stella and Pamphilia to Amphilanthus are considered a Petrarchan. Meaning that both, Sidney and Worth are writing about an unstoppable and incontrollable love for a particular person. Even though in Sidney’s case it is for a woman and in Pamphilia it is for a man, they both talk about an endless love story.
As the audience reads Pamphilia to Amphilanthus they will be able to notice a constant call to Cupid in several sonnets, where either Pamphilia is blaming him for her love for Amphilanthus or she is praising Cupid for making her love him. This same theme can be seen in Astrophil and Stella where Astrophil is always calling upon Cupid’s name, in order to justify his ridiculous obsession for Stella or cursing at him for making him fall in love with her. In sonnet 53 from Astrophil and Stella we experience a strong representation of Astrophil’s frustration and sense of hopeless when it comes to loving Stella. In this sonnet he is in a battle and Cupid d...

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In conclusion, Lady Mary Worth’s Pamphilia to Amphilanthus and Sir Philip Sidney’s Astrophil and Stella are very similar in many parts of their sonnet sequence and many of their sonnets can be related. In particular sonnet seven from Pamphilia to Amphilanthus and sonnet fifty-three from Astrophil and Stella both illuminate each other in different things. For one thing they are both controlled and ridiculed by Cupid, they also share that their composition is an iambic pentameter and that both stories are considered a Petrarchan. Even though some differences can also be highlighted, they have more to allude to each other than to differ.

Works Cited
Lady Mary Worth, , and Josephine Roberts A. The Poem of Lady Mary Worth.Paperback 1992.
Baton Rouge: Lousiana State University Press, 1983. 90. Print

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