Sonnet 39

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Sonnet 39

• By Sir Philip Sidney

Sullivan Tierney Fred Vargus Period 1
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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 Is 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

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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

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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.

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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

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Sonnet 39 Activity 2

• Identifying Literary Devices
• Onomatopoeia
• Assonance
• Dissonance
• Alliteration
• Repetition
• Simile
• Metaphor
• Symbol
• Hyperbole
• Euphemism
• Metonymy
• Synecdoche
• Personification

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• The End