Unrequited love in ARWAV, Who so list to hunt and At an inn

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  • Authors presentation of unrequited love
    • A Room with a View
      • Muddle between three people
        • Lucy loves Cecil
          • "Oh Cecil i do, i do"
            • Excited behaviour may be a ruse to hide her true feelings
            • Repetition of 'I do' could be Lucy trying to convince herself that she loves him
              • Emphasised by Forster's description of girls as 'illogical'
          • Their relationship fits into societies prescribed social boxes.
            • Awkward relationship
              • Their kiss was a "failure"
              • Cecil asks permission
                • Their kiss was a "failure"
                • Highlights how Edwardian customs robbed people of their ability to act on passion
          • Untrue, she feels trapped and hemmed by their relationship
      • George tells Lucy "I love you"
        • Kisses her twice to prove it
        • Lucy initially 'stifles' her love for him
          • Doesn't believe their relation ship will be accepted due to George's unconventional behaviour
        • "I cannot live without you"
    • Who so list to hunt I knowe where is an hynde
      • "Who so" implies anyone can hunt the "hynde"
        • However he "may no more"
          • Link to how Wyatt wrote this poem about  Anne Boleyn. 'Cesar' in this case is Henry VIII
      • The hunt has "wearied me so sore" and has been in vain"
        • He admits he has "farthest cometh behinde"
          • He's not only lost her, but he's come last.
            • Suggests she has multiple suitors
        • She has "fleeth afore"
          • He still follows her 'faynting'
            • Wyatts use of caesura and stress of 'followe' emphasises the idea that the power of love compelled him to go on
          • Suggests she's not to be touched
            • Setting of the wilderness extends this metaphor, stresses idea that she's dangerous and not to be caught
            • She's "graven with diamondes in letters plain"
    • At an inn
      • "They opined us more than friends-"
        • Enjoyed staffs incorrect assumption
          • "The kiss their zeal foretold .... Came not:"
            • Caesura implies that love has stopped and will not develop
        • Dash suggests distance between the two
          • "resigned For love's dear end"
            • Already given up on love
              • "Love lingered numb"
              • Love personified, decided not to take action.
                • "Love lingered numb"
          • "Yet never the love-light shone"
            • They're not in love, the atmosphere changes
              • "Palsied unto death"
                • Unrequited love is an illness, it literally breaks your heart. Juxtaposes the happiness of the second stanza.
            • "Palsied unto death"
              • Unrequited love is an illness, it literally breaks your heart. Juxtaposes the happiness of the second stanza.
      • Regular rhyme scheme of ABABCDCD gives the poem a sense of completion
        • Contrasts the language of the poem as their relationship never met its potential

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