Comparing The Sonnet And Philip Sidney ( Astrophil And Stella 1
In Keats On the Sonnet, the speaker indicates that they are limited “by dull rhymes”, and due to this lose what is beautiful about poetry to meet the strict formal rules of a sonnet. He suggests that the strict form of sonnet “chains” poetry. He compares sonnets to “Andromeda” from Greek mythology, who was stripped and chained naked to a rock. The speaker is indicating that even though sonnets are beautiful, they are trapped in their own strict requirements. He continues on to compare sonnets to a lyre, stating that if they were to “weigh the stress/Of every chord”, they would be able to find a way to improve its sound, which the speaker believes should be done to free poetry from the sonnet’s “chains”. He insists that poets should be “Misers” of their work, the way Kind Midas was of his gold. There is…