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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 S ....

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... whether “they call virtue there ungratefulness?” (line 15), or whether “they above love to be loved, and yet/ Those lovers scorn whom that love doth possess?” (line 13-14). Sir Philip Sideney believes that the answers to these questions can be found out from the moon, for the moon is omniscient. He further believes that the moon “can judge of love”, and can solve his love troubles, as a “ lozenge of love” (Sad Steps, line 11) would. Sir Philip Sidney's attitude toward the moon is quite serious, which is also the tone of the essay. He takes the moon very seriously, as if it were divine. He adds character to the moon, as if it wer ...