Life and Achievements of Sir Thomas Wyatt
Sir Thomas Wyatt, the English poet and diplomat, led a colorful life filled with love, diplomacy, imprisonment, and literary innovations. His works encompassed love poetry, satires, and psalms, showcasing his mastery of different forms. Explore his intriguing connections, such as his rumored relationship with Anne Boleyn, as well as his impactful contributions to English poetry, including the introduction of the sonnet and terza rima.
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THOMAS WYATT Whoso List to Hunt
1. Life 1. The English poet and diplomat Sir Thomas Wyatt (1503-1542). 2. His early marriage to Elizabeth Brooke proved unhappy, they separated after having 2 children. 3. Popular and handsome, he was much admired for his skill in music, languages, and arms. He was the fulfillment of the Renaissance ideal--soldier, statesman, courtier, lover, scholar, and poet.
4. Wyatt seems to have been early acquainted with Anne Boleyn. He was generally regarded as her lover. 5. He was sent on diplomatic missions to France, Spain and to the papacy. (important? Why?). 6. Twice imprisoned.
2. Achievements 1. Wyatt's work is divided into two groups: A/ the sonnets, rondeaus, songs, and lyric poems treating love. B/ the satires and the penitential psalms. 2. He also introduced the sonnet and terza rima into English poetry. 3. He used the iambic pentameter line and retained Petrarch's division of the fourteen lines into octave and sestet, but he began to rhyme the last two lines, forming a final couplet
3. The Poem Whoso list to hunt, I know where is an hind, But as for me, h las, I may no more. The vain travail hath wearied me so sore, I am of them that farthest cometh behind.
Yet may I by no means my wearied mind Draw from the deer, but as she fleeth afore Fainting I follow. I leave off therefore, Sithens in a net I seek to hold the wind.
Who list her hunt, I put him out of doubt, As well as I may spend his time in vain. And graven with diamonds in letters plain There is written, her fair neck round about:
Noli me tangere, for Caesar's I am, And wild for to hold, though I seem tame.
ANALYSIS 1. the rhyme scheme in "Whoso List to Hunt" follows an abba abba cddc ee arrangement. 2. epigram. 3. Enjambment & caesura. 4. repetition of the sound h-.
