El juego estilístico de Astrophil: comentario del soneto 68 de "Astrophil & Stella" de Sir Phillip Sydney

• Autores: Montserrat Martínez Vázquez
• Localización: ES: Revista de filología inglesa, ISSN 0210-9689, Nº. 15, 1991, págs. 85-94
• Idioma: español
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  • In Sidney's Astrophil and Stella the lover, as in many Elizabethan sequences, faces conflict between Platonic Love and sensual desire. However this struggle is not only conceptual but especially stylistic, it is mainly a struggle with language and poetic conventions. And it is precisely through language how the poet best illustrates this conflict. Sonnet 68 is a clear example of this technique. Its structure has been carefully built by means of oppositions both at a syntactic and lexical level having at the core the stylistic device of irony. This paper presents a detailed analysis of the poem as an illustrative example of Sydney's poetics.