Sonnet 39 By Sir Philip Sidney Sullivan Tierney Fred Vargus Period 1

Sir Philip Sidney (1554-1586) Eldest son of Sir Henry Sidney who was Lord Deputy of Ireland Named after his godfather, King Philip II of Spain Attended The Shrewsbury School Lived in Elizabeth I’s court and there he was a patron of the arts He published “Astrophil and Stella” and many other works Sonnet 39 is in “Astrophil and Stella” Sidney was one of the first who published Elizabethan sonnets

Sonnet 39 Activity #1 Try to put the pieces of the sonnet together! Hint #1: The first two lines are “Come Sleep! O Sleep, the certain know of peace,” and “The baiting place of wit, the balm of woe,”. Hint #2: The rhyme scheme is; ABAB CDCD EFEF GG Hint #3: In the beginning he compares sleep to many things, in the middle he says sleep will cause an end to inner conflict and to Stella and in the end it talks about dreaming of Stella

Sonnet 39 Come Sleep!  O Sleep, the certain knot of peace,  The baiting place of wit, the balm of woe,  The poor man's wealth, the prisoner's release,  The indifferent judge between the high and low;  With shield of proof, shield me from out the prease  Of those fierce darts Despair at me doth throw;  O make in me those civil wars to cease;  I will good tribute pay, if thou do so.  Take thou of me smooth pillows, sweetest bed,  A chamber deaf to noise and blind to light,  A rosy garland and a weary head:  And if these things, as being thine by right,  Move not thy heavy grace, thou shalt in me,  Livelier than elsewhere, Stella's image see.

Sonnet 39 Description In this sonnet, Philip Sidney is talking about sleeps importance This sonnet would be an apostrophe. An apostrophe is meant to be addressed to a person or people not present or to something that is not a person. In sonnet 39 he personifies sleep This sonnet is very ironic In the beginning-middle he is telling sleep to rescue him from Stella, but in the end he says he will dream about her

Sonnet 39 Activity #2 Identifying Literary Devices Onomatopoeia Assonance Dissonance Alliteration Repetition Simile Metaphor Symbol Hyperbole Euphemism Metonymy Synecdoche Personification

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