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Sir Thomas Wyatt
There are many different types of figures of speech. A figure of speech is a phrase or a word that has or gives a meaning different from its literal meaning, like metaphors, similes, or even...
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Sir Thomas Wyatt
Sir Thomas Wyatt was a member of Henry VIII's court and imprisoned - more than once - in the Tower of London. When Fortune Smiles Not,Only Patience Comforteth is an ode, very popular in The...
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Sir Thomas Wyatt
Sir Thomas Wyatt (1503-1542) usually wrote his poems in sonnet form, specifically, in the Italian or Petrarchan form, but in the case of "Is It Possible," he chose a form, or variant of a form,...
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Sir Thomas Wyatt
There is a lot of material available on Wyatt which usefully explores the social and political context of his writings. Also, there are helpful explorations on the structural significance of...
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Sir Thomas Wyatt
Wyatt’s contributions to both the English Renaissance and English Literature were extremely significant. As the son of Henry Wyatt, a Privy Councillor in the court of Henry VII, Thomas Wyatt grew...
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Sir Thomas Wyatt
Sir Thomas Wyatt’s poem beginning “The long love” and Henry Howard’s poem beginning “Love, that doth reign” are highly similar, mainly because both translate poem 140 from the Rima...
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Sir Thomas Wyatt
Irony and paradox appear frequently in the poetry of Sir Thomas Wyatt, and certainly they appear in his poems “Farewell love” and “They Flee From Me.” In “Farewell love,” the chastened...
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Sir Thomas Wyatt
Sonnet 10 by Sir Thomas Wyatt, “Some fowls there be that have so perfect sight,” is an extended metaphor in the tradition of the verse of courtly love. It is in the form of a Petrarchan sonnet,...
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Sir Thomas Wyatt
This poem is based on much Italian sixteenth-century poetry in which the poet carries the worship of his beloved to extreme lengths and lamenting the woman's callous and cruel treatment. Wyatt's...
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Sir Thomas Wyatt
Important to understanding this poem by Wyatt is the title that he has given this verse: "The Lover Excuseth Him of Words Wherewith He was Unjustly Charged." Let us remember that so many of Wyatt's...
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Sir Thomas Wyatt
"Forget Not Yet" is a poem that is based around the desire of the speaker to commend himself to his lover as he talks about the many hardships he has faced and the sufferings he has endured to...
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Sir Thomas Wyatt
The poem by Sir Thomas Wyatt that begins “If thou wilt mighty be” might be interpreted as follows: Stanza one advises that anyone who wishes to be powerful should reject uncontrolled passion...
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Sir Thomas Wyatt
The double sonnet by Sir Thomas Wyatt that begins “The flaming sighs that boil within my breast” might be interpreted as follows. The opening lines use conventional imagery, derived from the...
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Sir Thomas Wyatt
The poem by Sir Thomas Wyatt that begins “Your eyes so often cast” might be interpreted as follows. This is a poem in which a speaker addresses someone – perhaps even himself – and tells...
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Sir Thomas Wyatt
This is a poem in which Sir Thomas Wyatt, after having worked in Spain for a long time on behalf of England, says farwell to Spain by addressing the river Tagus, on which he is sailing out of the...
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Sir Thomas Wyatt
This poem, which is also titled, "That Right Cannot Govern Fancy," and describes the attempts of the speaker to win the heart of a particularly cruel woman. Even though the poem begins by stating...
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Sir Thomas Wyatt
In this poem, the speaker has just suffered the loss of his lover's affections, who has just completely changed her mind about him and her love for him. The emotional impact of this is summarised...
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Sir Thomas Wyatt
This is one of the most famous of all of Wyatt’s poems. The speaker of the poem is a man who is now forsaken by the women who, at one time, used to seek him out, presumably for erotic encounters....
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Sir Thomas Wyatt
He is writing a parody of Petrarch's Rime 140. The basic context is that he is keeping a secret deep in his heart regarding the person whom he truly loves. By reading the poem, it seems to be a...
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Sir Thomas Wyatt
[eNotes editors are only permitted to answer one question per posting. Additional questions should be posted separately.] Sir Thomas Wyatt's "The Long Love" and Henry Howard, the Earl of Surrey's...
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Sir Thomas Wyatt
Recently having read Sir Thomas Wyatt's sonnet, "The Long Love," and Henry Howard's "Love that doth reign and live," I would suggest that though both men choose to love, they also prefer to avoid...
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Sir Thomas Wyatt
Both Wyatt’s poem and Howard’s are translations into English of a poem originally written by the Italian poet Francesco Petrarca (Petrarch). The poem is number 140 of Petrarch’s collection of...
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Sir Thomas Wyatt
This poem is written in a form that is very similar to a Petrarchan sonnet. It has 14 lines and a rhyme scheme that divides it into an octave (a group of eight lines) and a sestet (a group of six...
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Sir Thomas Wyatt
The theme of this poem is love and the uncertainty and difficulty that comes with love. In the poem, the author is asking a series of rhetorical questions about the ways in which love can seem...
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Sir Thomas Wyatt
In Sir Thomas Wyatt's poem, "I find no peace, and all my war is done," the reader has a sense of a man conflicted by the world around him. This poem is written as a Petrarchan (Italian) sonnet...
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Sir Thomas Wyatt
The speaker many paradoxes in this personal poem are the expression of a person who cannot communicate all his feelings with the loved one. The poem implies that the love may be forbidden in some...
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Sir Thomas Wyatt
An astute reader can count fifteen separate paradoxes in the poem. Lines 5 and 6 provide just one paradox, but lines 9 and 12 each give us two. The total effect of the paradoxes is to stress the...
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Sir Thomas Wyatt
The speaker reflects on the paradoxical nature of his love. On the one hand, he wants to love deeply, but on the other he approaches the situation of love expecting that it will change his life...
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Sir Thomas Wyatt
This poem is one of the most famous for exploring the figure of paradox. It is by no means easy, and beginning readers of poetry especially may need to be guided closely, line-by-line, in an...
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Sir Thomas Wyatt
This question you ask hits upon a complex point in criticism of Wyatt's work. Critics generally agree that Wyatt spoke in his poems with a duplicity that veiled a social or political or cultural...
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Sir Thomas Wyatt
The structure of Wyayy's poem, in iambic (x/) trimeter (three metric feet x/ x/ x/), is four sestets in am atypical rhyme scheme of a b b b a c, with subsequent stanzas replacing /b/ with /d, e, f/...
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Sir Thomas Wyatt
Thomas Wyatt's poem "And Wilt Thou Leave Me Thus" isn't written in the sonnet form of fourteen lines with an ending couplet. Instead, it has four sextain stanzas (six lines each), each beginning...
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Sir Thomas Wyatt
Sir Thomas Wyatt did have some troubles in his lifetime but it is possible that the tone of his poems also reflect that which is considered his greatest contribution to English poetry. After...
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Sir Thomas Wyatt
The theme of "Blame Not My Lute" is in keeping with the courtly love poetry that he learned while on a diplomatic trip to Italy and tells of love within the "love is like war" Petrarchian love...
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Sir Thomas Wyatt
Excellent work by your fellow student. This is not quite a Shakespearean quote, nor is it a correct quote. It is, indeed, from a sonnet written by Sir Thomas Wyatt. The sonnet, like so many from...
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Sir Thomas Wyatt
Imagery can be of two sorts: trope and scheme. Imagery refers to the word and phrase choices a writer makes to inspire mental pictures or visions of his poem or prose that make his work live in the...
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Sir Thomas Wyatt
Nothing much complicated here. The speaker tells his lady love not to blame the instrument he uses (a lute in this case) for the song of complaint he is singing about her: My Lute and strings may...
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Sir Thomas Wyatt
The context of Wyatt's poem is that of a lover pondering the fickle nature of his mistress. The poem centers around one question: Is it possible? The poet then describes what it is that he is...