Sir Philip Sidney unlike most poets in his time was a military figure who had a respectable amount of political and military influence. He is the son of Sir Henry Sidney and Lady Mary Dudley. Sidney was not just a poet, but a courtier for Queen Elizabeth I, and military soldier who had a reputation for being an exceptional horseman in which he won many competitions. However, that didn’t win him much favor under the Queen. He lost most of the Queen’s trust when he failed to fulfill his duty to influence the German Princes to shift “… their attitude toward the formation of a Protestant league,” in 1577, in which Elizabeth reprimanded roles for Sidney for quite some time (insert cite here). Most of his poems are influenced by love; time spent …show more content…
Sidney’s family ties, one being his Uncle ‘Earl of Leicester’ who was quite powerful in the realm, allowed him to venture into a world that helped contribute to what made him become a famous and renowned poet. The influence of his uncle allowed him to attend festivals that he normally would not have attended. The festival that he attended were those meant to entertain the Queen, it was during his time as a courtier for the Queen in 1575. His studies proved to be helpful in political matters and as a courtier for the Queen because “… his knowledge of Latin, French, and Italian…” served a good purpose under the Queen (Insert cite here). In 1575, was the time that Sidney met the woman that influenced his work for Astrophil and Stella, the woman known as Lady Penelope. From the book by John Addington states that “Lady Penelope Devereux illustrious in English literature as Sir Philip Sidney's Stella…” it was also stated that she was thirteen at the time Sidney had met her. Though, Addington states that he did not leave much of an impression the first …show more content…
Actions he took in his life grabbed the attention of Penelope’s father the ‘Earl of Essex,’ saying “…I call him son; he is so wise, virtuous, and godly” (qtd. In Symonds 33). Penelope’s father later wrote to Sidney’s father at the time nearing his death that he wed his daughter. However, the plan for him to marry Penelope was discontinued by her relatives, where then it was planned that she marries Robert Rich. Sidney who still in love with Penelope became apoplectic of the new arrangement, and was left to vent out his love and anger through imagination which in turn created the sonnets of Astrophil and Stella. In Astrophil and Stella sonnet twenty-four in line
Samuel Maverick was born on July 23, 1803 in Pendleton, South Carolina. His parents were Samuel and Elizabeth Maverick. Samuel Maverick was homeschooled till the age of 18. Samuel attended Yale into the sophomore class in September 1822 and graduated in 1825. Samuel returned back to his hometown after college in 1829 and started a new business, which was a law office. A couple years later he settled in Georgia for a short time. Then he moved from there to a plantation in Lauderdale Country to Alabama. Finally he decided on moving to Texas in March of 1835. Samuel quickly wanted to start building his very own land empire, but the Texas Revolution ruined that because it was quickly starting to approach. After Maverick had moved to San Antonio
Slavery was a horrible institution that was widely practiced in the Southern and Mid-Atlantic states in the United States during the antebellum period. It was formally abolished in the United States in 1865, but is still practiced on a very small scale today. It also happens in other countries. Slavery is having somebody who does everything for you without pay. Usually if a slave refused to do their work, they were abused. Three important people who supported slavery in the United States were James Henry Hammond, John C. Calhoun, and William Harper.
Carl Carlton is one of those quite successful and popular musicians all over the world. This American songwriter and singer was born 21 May 1953 in the US nothwest city of Detroit, the largest and more populous in the state of Michigan. As surprising as it may seem, Carlton began his professional carrer when he was a teenager thanks to a kid’s baseball game. As reported by several sources, Carl liked to play baseball with others neighborhood’s teenagers, and during games he used to sing as well. Carlton voice at that time was already so powerful, clear and tuned, that one of the neighbours living in an appartment near the place the adolescents were playing thought they had a radio playing loud music down there and yelled down them to turn off
The Francois Vase is a large Attic black-figure style volute-krater vase used for wine dated 570-565 BCE. Black-figure denotes the stylistic effect of portraying Greek men in a dark colour as opposed to women as paler in shade whereas volute-krater describes the vase’s handles. This vase was molded by Ergotimos and then painted by Kleitias. Both of these figures are highly regarded Athenian artists. In 1845, it was discovered in fragments by namesake archeologist Alessandro Francois in Chiusi, Etruria, central Italy; at the moment, it is permanently on display in the Museo Archeologico in Florence. Several of its pieces are still missing, though it has been reconstructed in its original form. An image of the vase can be seen in the “For Reference” page at the end of this paper. The Francois vase is considered a landmark in the evolution of ancient Greek pottery due to its amalgamation of various related stories depicted in separate strips on a sole vase. In total, there are 270 figures that represent several mythological themes. Mythological figures, such as Meleager, Peleus, Theseus, Achilles, Patroclus,
Those who hear the name of William Penn may know him as the founder of Pennsylvania, or even recognize him on the Quaker Oat's logo. But this man is more than a another governmental leader or the face of a successful breakfast brand. Penn is, in my opinion, a figure to be admired both in politics and in the Christian faith and I argue that he is highly worthy for the 11th House of The Kings College dawning his name. Although it just so happens that my family is related to William Penn, I am not offering him as an option only because of that fact, but because I discovered his humble and dedicated life to God and people and cannot help but admire this quintessential Christian leader.
Issac Newton was born on Christmas in 1642, he was born premature and people did not think he was going to live. His father died three months after Issac was born. So his mother needed to raise him. Hannah Issac's mother got remarried to Bamabas. He was wealthy and he maid Issac's mother leave him with the grandparents while they go live in Witham. Ever since issac's mother got remarried he kept a diary explaining the hatred of his step father everyday. When he was with his grandparents he'd spend the whole day in his room building stuff. He was 10 and his stepfather died and his mother returned home. After a long life time and struggle he attended Cambridge university when his inventions started to boom. At that university he discovered
Volleyball, which was invented in 1895 by using different aspects of basketball and tennis, has grown to be the second most played sport in the world (Volleyball History 1). Volleyball started as a recreational game played in local YMCAs and today is now played at all school levels including college, in the Olympics, and professionally. Volleyball is a amusing sport that can be played by anyone, at any skill level, indoors or outdoors, and even on the beach.
...e speaker admits she is worried and confused when she says, “The sonnet is the story of a woman’s struggle to make choices regarding love.” (14) Her mind is disturbed from the trials of love.
Queen Elizabeth I heavily inspired the literary works of many authors during the Elizabethan period; however, she herself was a writer of poems and other compositions. Many of her skills were developed as a young girl while she was educated in a multitude of languages and rhetoric. As a woman, she composed sonnets, poems, letters, and speeches. Specifically, Elizabeth’s poems reference her own life and issues that occurred before and during her reign. While reading her poems, we learn a lot about Elizabeth’s character, personality, and even her inner feelings through the stories behind her poetry.
Our medical advancements are the gramercy of the renowned British physician, William Harvey, who accurately described how blood circulates throughout the body, how animals develop, and set a basis for the scientific method. Harvey was born in 1578 in Folkestone, England. He attended Caius College, Cambridge, where he studied the classics, rhetoric, and physiology, and he finished with a Bachelor of Arts degree. Afterwards, he moved to the University of Padua in Italy, the greatest medical school at the time, and he earned a doctorate degree (Aird). He studied under Hieronymus Fabricius and adopted Aristotle’s methods of the study of nature, mostly in comparative anatomy and embryology, and began to challenge Galen’s ideas which were the widely
Once the reader has been successfully drawn into the poem it becomes clear that the soldier telling the tale is both proud of his Queen and scornful of his role in her life. Pride for Queen and country shines t...
Isaac Newton was an influential physicist and mathematician in history because he made discoveries in mathematics, physics, optics, and chemistry in the country of England and changed the history of science by laying down foundations for modern sciences during the time period of the 17th century. He discovered calculus, Newton’s three laws of motions, the theory of gravity, and the spectrum of colors. He also formulated a system of chemistry. Newton was born on January 4, 1643 in Woolsthorpe, Lincolnshire, England. His father, a local farmer, died three month before his birth.
Lackluster love is the subject postulated in both sonnets, Petrarch 90 and Shakespeare 130. This is a love that endures even after beauteous love has worn off, or in Petrarch, a love that never was. The Petrarchan sonnet utilizes fantasy to describe love. It depicts love that is exaggerated and unrealistic. Shakespeare’s sonnet, on the other hand, is very sarcastic but it is more realistic as compared to the Petrarch 90. Petrarchan sonnets, also called Italian sonnets were the first sonnets to be written, and they have remained the most common sonnets (Hollander 28). They were named after the Italian poet Petrarch. Its structure takes the form of two stanzas, the first one an octave, in that, it has eight lines, and the next stanza is a sestet, meaning that it has six lines. The rhyme scheme suits the Italian language, which has the feature of being rhyme rich, and it, can take the forms of abbaabba, cdcdcd, or cdecde. These sonnets present an answerable charge in the first stanza, and a turn in the sestet. The sestet is the counter argument of the octave.
Spencer, Edmund. “Amoretti: Sonnet 37”. The Norton Anthology of English Literature. Gen. ed. David Simpson. 8th ed. Vol. 1. New York: Norton, 2006. 904. Print.
The fourteen line sonnet is constructed by three quatrains and one couplet. With the organization of the poem, Shakespeare accomplishes to work out a different idea in each of the three quatrains as he writes the sonnet to lend itself naturally. Each of the quatrain contains a pair of images that create one universal idea in the quatrain. The poem is written in a iambic pentameter with a rhyme scheme of ABAB CDCD EFEF GG. Giving the poem a smooth rhyming transition from stanza to