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Essay Archive - Philip Larkin's "Sad Steps" and Sir Philip Sidney of Sonnet 31 from Astrophel and Stella: The Moon
Philip Larkin's "Sad Steps" and Sir Philip Sidney of Sonnet 31 from
Astrophel and Stella: The Moon
An object can represent many different things to many different
people. One object of interest is the moon. Philip Larkin, the speaker of
Sad Steps, and Sir Philip Sidney, speaker of sonnet 31 from Astrophel and
Stella, have different feelings and attitudes towards the moon. Each
speaker uses various rhetorical devices to present their opinion of the
moon. Larkin uses these devices to show his bitterness ....
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