Short questions and answers from Loving in Truth.

1) "In verse my love to show"- Why does the poet want to write verse? How does the poet want to show his love in verse?

Ans:-
        Sidney was disappointed in love. The poet's love was  true and he was particularly keen to show it in his verse written in praise of his lady-love. He wanted to put his suffering in his verse so that his lady- love might be pleased at his efforts and learn of his suffering. Her knowledge of love might make her pitiful to him. Her pity might lead her to show her favour to the poet. The poet expects to win her grace by means of his verse written in her praise.

      The poet wants to show the pangs of his love-lorn heart by painting his innermost afflictions and woes in lucid rhymes. He wants to sketch a lurid picture of his agony in words.  He would portray them in the deepest dye of injured feelings that may stir the depths of his lady love's compassion and draw her attention to him.     

2) "Biting my truant pen...." - Where does this line occur? What is meant by truant pen? Why did the poet bite his pen? 

Ans:- The line occurs in the poem 'Loving in Truth' written by Philip Sidney.
   'Truant pen' means which go astray and does not obey the heart like a naughty school boy who runs away from his school. Here Sidney refers to his inability to express himself.

     The poet bites his pen to indicate the state of his mental restlessness. He grows angry with himself for his failure to express his poetic feeling. It is well suggestive of a lover's psychology and his utter helplessness caused by intense passion of love.

3) "Fool said my Muse to me..."- Where does this line occur? Who was the Muse? What did the Muse say?

Ans:- The line occurs in ''Loving in Truth" by Philip Sidney.

The 'Muse' according to classical tradition is the goddess of learning. She is the guiding poetic spirit, the inspirer of poetry.

The Muse's advice to Sidney to look into his heart for words indicates the triumph of the inspirational theory of poetry. Poetry is born out of inspiration. It is not a product imitation. Its spontaneous and natural source is the human heart, the receptacle of all emotions, feelings and thoughts. So, the poet should delve deep into his heart instead of looking here and there for his poetic inspiration.