Short Questions and Answers of Loving in Truth

 Short Questions and Answers of

'Loving in Truth'.

➡️Answers the following questions.

1.Who wrote 'Loving in Truth'?

Ans: Philip Sidney wrote 'Loving in Truth'.

2.What is the meaning of 'Astrophil and Stella'?

Ans: 'Astrophil' means star-lover or star-gazer.'Stella' means star.The lover(Sidney) is the star-lover and beloved(Devereux) is the star.

3.What type of sonnet is   'Loving in Truth'?

Ans: 'Loving in Truth' is a Petrarchan type of sonnet.Its fourteen lines are divided between octave(first eight lines) and sestet(last six lines).

4.To whom the Sonnet is addressed?

Ans. The Sonnet is addressed to Penelope Devereux whom Sidney was in love but who married Lord Rich.

5.What is the meaning of the word 'fain'?

Ans. The word  'fain' means desiring or willing.

6.What does the poet mean by fresh and fruitful showers ? What is the comparison suggested here?

Ans. 'Fresh' and fruitful showers' mean rains that make the land fruitful and fresh with productions. Here is the comparison between showers and imagination that helps the production of poetry.

7.What kind of love does the poet express in the poem?

Ans. The poet expresses his disappointed love.

8.Why does the poet want to show his love?

Ans. The poet wants to show his love to the beloved to get her pity and kindness for his disappointed love.

9.Name the sonnet sequence from which the sonnet 'Loving in Truth' is taken.

Ans. The Sonnet is taken (Sonnet No. 1) from the Sonnet sequence Astrophel and Stella.

10.What is the meaning of 'inventions' here? What does the poet study?

Ans. 'Inventions' mean imaginations. The poet studies the poetry of others.