- The speaker is unable to sleep and invites sleep, flattering it with praise like "certain knot of peace" and describing it as a leveler between rich and poor.
- In his desperation, he offers sleep gifts like a comfortable bed and chamber, but knows these may not be enough.
- He ultimately promises that if sleep comes to him, it will see the lively image of his beloved Stella, which would please it more than any material gifts.
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4. • Astrophil and Stella is one of Elizabethan poetry’s finest
and brightest gems.
• In 108 sonnets and a handful of songs, Sir Philip Sidney
produced the first sustained sonnet sequence in English
(though not, contrary to popular belief, the very first).
• Sonnet 39, beginning ‘Come sleep, O sleep, the certain
knot of peace’, is one of the most widely anthologised
poems in the sequence – and this analysis is going to
attempt to explain why it remains so popular.
5. “Come Sleep, O Sleep” by Sir Philip Sidney is the second of three
sonnets about sleep and going to bed in “Astrophil and Stella”.
The speaker is unable to sleep, so he invites sleep as if inviting a
person, using all kinds of flattery.
He praises sleep for all is quality, and for being an unbiased
leveler who goes without minding whether rich or poor. Sydney
explains sleep to a land of peace and tries to find peace and
solace.
Further, he describes sleep as a place of escape from the noise,
light, and everything that make men weary. Finally, he concludes
stating that sleep is livelier than reality, for he (Astrophel) can see
Stella clearly.
6. • The speaker is really tired. He hasn't been feeling too good
(Despair is throwing darts at him and there's a civil war inside
of him) and he wants Sleep to help him out a little bit.
• He spends a few lines talking about all the good things Sleep
does, before trying to bribe him with some cool gifts (a perfect
sleeping chamber, a nice bed, etc.).
• If Sleep isn't interested in those things, however, he can look
inside the speaker and see an image of the beautiful Stella.
Perhaps that'll convince him.
7. Form and Structure of Come Sleep, O Sleep
• “Come Sleep! O Sleep” is a sonnet of 14 lines. Following the
best known Petrarchan or Italian sonnet form there is a shift
after octave in rhyme and in the subject matter.
• In the octave, the poet discusses what all things sleep offers to
people. But, in the sestet, he discusses the possible things he
can offer sleep it comes.
• In the concluding couple, he comes to an agreement with sleep
to share the image of Stella, livelier in his sleep than in reality.
The sonnet is written in Iambic pentameter.
• Though it follows the structure of a Petrarchan sonnet, the
rhyme scheme is of the Shakespearean sonnet form with
ABABABAB, CDCDEFEFGG.
8. Literary/ Poetic Devices Used in Come Sleep, O Sleep
Sidney uses poetic devices like Apostrophe, Personification, Paradox, and Metaphor,
etc in the sonnet “Come Sleep, O Sleep”.
Apostrophe-
An apostrophe is used in the title itself to make this poem sound more like a
conversation between the speaker and “Sleep”. In the first line of the poem, the
speaker directly addresses sleep, as if it is standing in front of him and willing not to
come. He tries to convince as if one convinces a friend.
Personification-
In the poem, “Sleep” is personified like a man who makes his choices. At the
beginning of the poem, sleep has made up its mind not to come. Poet is desperate
without sleep, so he had to uses whatever way sounds possible for him to lull sleep.
9. Metaphor-
The poet has used several “Metaphors” to describe the quality and nature of sleep. The
following metaphors like “certain knot of peace”, “baiting-place of wit”, “balm of woe”, “poor
man’s wealth”, “prisoner’s release”, and “indifferent judge” are found in the first quatrain of
the poem. The poet compares sleep to a judge who makes no distinction while making a
judgment. Sleep is equally available to all despite their socio-economical situation.
Imagery-
The poet uses the poetic technique “Imagery” while describing the inviting bed Chamber. It
has “smooth pillows” and “sweetest bed”. It is also free from the “noise” and “light”.
Ironically, he has everything that is needed for a comfortable sleep, yet he has no sleep. This
gives a picture of a man lying in the tossing around without sleep.
Paradox-
In the third line of the poem “Come Sleep, O Sleep”, the poet paradoxically uses the terms
“poor man”, “wealth”, “prisoner”, and “release”. The word ‘poor’ lexically means a person
who has a little, and Prisoner, someone who is bound by the four walls of a prison. But here
the poet remarks Sleep to be a wealth of a poor, and freedom from the world of prison to a
prisoner.
10. Come Sleep; O Sleep! the certain knot of peace,
The baiting-place of wit, the balm of woe,
The poor man's wealth, the prisoner's release,
Th' indifferent judge between the high and low;
With shield of proof shield me from out the prease
Of those fierce darts Despair at me doth throw:
O make in me those civil wars to cease;
I will good tribute pay, if thou do so.
Take thou of me smooth pillows, sweetest bed,
A chamber deaf to noise and blind of light,
A rosy garland and a weary head;
And if these things, as being thine by right,
Move not thy heavy grace, thou shalt in me,
Livelier than elsewhere, Stella's image see.
Sir Philip Sidney
11. Lines 1 to 4
Come Sleep! O Sleep, the certain knot of peace,
The baiting-place of wit, the balm of woe,
The poor man’s wealth, the prisoner’s release,
Th’ indifferent judge between the high and low.
• The sonnet Come Sleep! O Sleep begins with the speaker inviting the sleep to
come. It looks like the sleep is not coming so he cajoling it to come using a lot
of flattery.
• He uses expensive epithets like “certain knot of peace”, “baiting-place of wit”,
“balm of woe”, “poor man’s wealth”, “prisoner’s release”, and “indifferent
judge” to flatter Sleep. Sleep seems to be the place that is directly connected
to peace. And also it is a place that lulls knowledge and wisdom.
• In the lines following, the poet paradoxically uses sleep as “poor man’s
wealth” and “prisoner’s release”, for it gives them relief from reality. Seep is
being a leveler, as death is a leveler in James Shirley’s poem “Death the
Leveller”.
• Sleep comes equally to both rich and poor, to make everything even. Though
Rich people can buy a lot of comforting things for sleep, the sleep they get is
common.
12. Lines 5 to 8
With shield of proof shield me from out the prease
Of those fierce darts despair at me doth throw:
O make in me those civil wars to cease;
I will good tribute pay, if thou do so.
• In the second quatrain of the poem “Come Sleep, O Sleep” the
poet or speaker seems to be desperate for sleep.
• He calls upon sleep to protect him with its ‘shield of proof’ from
the “fierce darts” being thrown at him.
• Since the speaker of the poem is Astrophel the darts could be the
ones from cupid, for he is love, that doesn’t allow him to get sleep.
His love for the Stella is causing civil wars within him, so he
expects the sleep to come and put an end to it.
• The fine line shows how desperate he is for sleep because he is
even willing to bribe the sleep to come.
13. Lines 9 to 14
Take thou of me smooth pillows, sweetest bed,
A chamber deaf to noise and blind to light,
A rosy garland and a weary head:
And if these things, as being thine by right,
Move not thy heavy grace, thou shalt in me,
Livelier than elsewhere, Stella’s image see.
• In the sestet of “Come Sleep, O Sleep” the speaker offers smooth pillows,
sweetest bed, and a chamber, immune to sound and light to induce sleep.
• He readily offers “a rosy garland” and “weary head” too. To an ordinary person,
this may be a tempting offer but to sleep, they are not.
• Logically, they are already the properties of sleep. At this time, the speaker
realizes that they may not be sufficient to convince sleep.
• Ultimately, he gets an idea in the final couplet, and speaks confidently to
“sleep”, if it agrees to come, he will grant an ultimate reward of seeing ‘Stella’.
14. This is a sonnet, and usually the first eight lines of
a sonnet are a group (called the "octave"), as are
the second six (the "sestet"). We can tell that this
is the case in this poem because the rhyme
schemes are different.
For the first 8 it is ABABABAB, where each letter
represents the end rhyme of that line. Check out
"Form and Meter" for more on all this sonnet
stuff.