It was my choice, it was no chance (Masterplots II: Poetry, Revised Edition)
At a glance:
- Author: Sir Thomas Wyatt
- First Published: 1911
- Type of Work: Ode
- Genres: Poetry, Lyric poetry, Ode
- Subjects: Love or romance, England or English people, Fate or fatalism, Sixteenth century
The Poem
Composed of five stanzas with seven lines each, “It was my choice, it was no chance” is one of Sir Thomas Wyatt’s poems that was probably written as a song to be accompanied by lute. In many ways a companion piece to the more familiar song “Blame not my lute,” “It was my choice, it was no chance” plays on the conventional themes of early Renaissance poetry in England. The persona, a young lover wooing a reluctant mistress, faces the specter of rejection. He carries out his attempts to persuade her to favor his suit with varying degrees of logic and...
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