An “Apology for Poetry” is a compelling essay that refutes Puritan and fundamentalist Stephen Gosson's attack on poetry. This complex article written by Sir Phillip Sidney represents the decisive refutation in defense of the poem. Its highly emotional passages defend the uncongenial comments of Gosson's poetry. However, his justification for the refutation alludes to Gosson's persistent attacks on poetry; Gosson's observations are known to push Sidney to defend himself not only from Gosson but also from Plato. Stephen Gosson's Puritan credentials ignore him as the primary source for the essay's presentation. Sidney addresses the poetic contributions and principles demonstrated by Aristotle, Plato, and other European scholars. Plato's Republic implements most of the poetic knowledge that Sidney reinforces in its defense. The abundance of science represents meaningful purposes in life; Sidney admits that poetry is a superior subject. Sidney conveys several rational ideologies to support the defense of poetic theory. Poetics is subjected through the emphasis of imitation, generates learning purposes, objectifies history and philosophy, and educates observers in the knowledge, virtue, and practical conceptions of poetry. The influence of Plato and Aristotle on Sir Philip Sidney's concise essay strengthens a substantial argument in defense of poetry. His defense of poetry consists mainly of Aristotle's theories of poetics, as well as the acceptance of Plato's poetic contribution. The function and form of poetry according to the theories of Platonism are defended and reconciled by Sidney. Further words and sanctions of Aristotle provide arguments in support of the defense. Plato's notable concern was with the education of men at the heart of other authors' paper general concepts. He maintains that the concept of all knowledge is religious: "returning to the soul as much as possible of its lost perfection", a condition of enlightenment that aspires the soul to a state of happiness. The soul is elevated from the confines of moral consciousness: learning, under whatever name it comes out, or towards what immediate end whatever it is directed, the final end is to lead and draw us to a perfection as high as our degenerate souls. , made worse by their clay lodgings, may be capable. Some who thought that this happiness was obtained chiefly by knowledge, and that no knowledge was so high and celestial as the knowledge of the stars, devoted themselves to astronomy... (An Apology for Poetry). Sidney's final recommendation for ending education is soul searching, finding the inner happiness that leads to perfection.‘