Question

critically analyse the poem nightingale by sir Philip sidney​

Answer 1

Answer:

The Nightingale” is a two-stanza, 24 line poem based on book six of Ovid’s Metamorphoses. The speaker addresses the mythical character Philomela, who has been turned into a nightingale after her morrest by her brother-in-law. The speaker observes the nightingale singing out her woes, and uses this as a jumping-off point to complain that he suffers even more than she does because he is unable to express his pain.

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Answer 2

In the poem The Nightingale by Sir Philip Sidney, the poet addresses Philomela's a mythical character, who after her physical assault by her brother-in-law, was turned into a nightingale. The speaker notes that she sings her struggles at night, and uses it to complain that he suffers even more than she does because he is unable to express his pain.

Explanation:

• In order to create a paradox for his understanding, the speaker tells Philomela / the nightingale's tale. Philomela suffered physical assault and is now weeping as a nightingale. But  he directly addresses her twice and approaches her directly and tells her that she should take comfort with his story. The poet maintains that while she was humiliated, his suffering was worse. He describes the cause of his suffering in the second stanza. He longs for love on a regular basis, but can not find fulfilment
• Sidney first commiserates with Philomina, the nightingale and then berates her because she could vocalise her pain when he couldn't. Philomela, Sidney argues, at least through music, can express her grief and rid herself of it, but he must be silent as a man. This poem is very clear and not only retells Philomela's myth and a clever parody of a popular song, but it's also a critique of social moods that rule that a woman should speak out freely while a man cannot. It also applies to the common belief that certain songbirds sings just before their death, causing their breast to dive into a thorn.
• Sidney almost seems here to say that Philomela didn't care about things that she said, but instead used her status as a woman to assert that she has been wronged, thereby maintaining her dignity and chastity in the face of the act that she has committed. In other words, without social repercussions, she could enjoy physical closeness, which in civilised society would not be allowed to any man. Sidney then continues on with his own side of things, claiming  wanting is more woe than too much having. Those lines illustrate clearly the distinction between genders: women find physical desirability a burdensome activity, while men regard it as something desired but never accomplished.
• Sidney takes the male perspective: women are cruel torturers, who taunt men with their physical desire, then complain when they are humiliated by men, falsely misuse the universally accepted right of a woman to speak out her feelings and bring an agonised silence to men.
• Using the classic myth of Philomela he suggests that since the beginning of civilization this type of action and this conflict between the genders have persisted, and the tongue-in-cheek parody of a modern Italian love song helps him to convey this highly vitriolic perspective in a style and non - threatening manner in a recognisable form that permits whoever he likes. In a poetry-writer exercise he will look his views comfortably
• The consequences of Sidneys gender role changes–which he does often in SoNNETs as well, although feminist critics looked at his opinions on physical assault –have recently been explored by genre criticism. Sidney's thoughts are not unexpected, but they tend to affirm the false image of women as commons and physical desire. Contextualized into a modern society.