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- W2125954095 abstract "Astrophil’s love for Stella is not the conventional Platonic love of Petrarchist poems. We cannot fully consider him the romantic lover who aspires to a spiritual enjoying of his lady’s virtues and beauty for, though he attempts to represent his feelings according to the parameters of Platonism, he also makes his basest sexual desire flourish in many of the sonnets or songs of Astrophil and Stella. It is not that his begins by being a pure love that progressively degenerates into a blatant expression of his sexual needs due to an increase of his desire. The material nature of his love as opposed to spiritual love is obvious from the very beginning of the sequence. It is, however, a fact that Astrophil does frequently express his amorous feeling by means of Platonic topics such as the correspondence between physical beauty and spiritual virtue, as in sonnet 48 when he refers to Stella’s eyes as “where Virtue is made strong by Beautie’s might” (l. 2) or that he identifies himself with the agonizing lover of Petrarchist sequences who suffers the wounds of Cupid as in sonnet 20: “Fly, fly, my friends, I have my death wound” (l. 1) or with the slave of his beloved as in sonnet 47: “What, have I thus betrayed my libertie?” (l. 1). But the Platonic representation of his love is continually corrupted by frequent ironic allusions to it and to sexual desire. It is a fact that the material inclinations of his love are less obvious in the first quarter of the sequence, where the violation of spiritual love is only indirectly expressed under the appearance of conventional love sonnets; but it is aproximately from sonnet 46 that the sexual irony becomes more obvious and Astrophil gives freedom to his basest instincts. His sexual discourse becomes a subversive element in the sequence because not only does it attempt against the literary conventions of the Platonic expression of love, but it also means a rebellious attitude towards the strict moral and religious canons of Elizabethan England. With his ironic allusions to sex, Astrophil questions the spirituality of love proclaimed by Neoplatonism, which meant a way of reconciling love to religion. P. A. Miller emphasizes the subversive implications of the sequence when he affirms that:" @default.
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