Sir Philip Sydney uses imagery to make the reader feel the pain that one experiences while awake and the urge to sleep. Sydney describes a scenario of metaphorical “fierce darts” being thrown at Astrophel by Despair (6). This invokes a sense of pain in the reader, as well as visual, and kinetic imagery. Sydney appeals to multiple senses in this instance to make the feeling of darts exaggerated, and provides a tone of pain and sorrow. This tone is set for the reader because the reader experiences the pain of one’s problems through the feeling of darts, and experiences the sorrow that goes along with one’s problems. The description of a perfect resting chamber by Sydney appeals to the reader's visual and auditory senses. Sydney describes the
