Whoso list to hount I knowe where is an hynde
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- Created on: 12-02-20 10:31
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- Whoso list to hount...
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- Extended hunting metaphor: love as a chase, love as futile, love as exciting, love as a sport
- Petrarchan Sonnet form
- Predicament expressed in Octave (speaker is tired of chasing the deer), solution in sestet (the deer is caesar's)
- Regular rhyme scheme: speaker does not give up the hunt
- "sithens in a net i seke to holde the wynde" - powerful metaphor expresses futility of love
- latin words - christ-like overtones, it is ordained by god, or maybe that the hind is divine in beauty
- "graven... in letters plain" - female ownership, patriarchal values
- Mary Magdelane - is Boleyn a fallen woman?
- Soft word play mimics the 'joy of the hunt'
- personal tone - Wyatt's own experiences
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- Wyatt was in love with Anne Boleyn and was imprisoned for it
- The deer represents Boleyn
- Probably written in the mid-1530s
- Published in 1550s after his death
- Role of women at the time - women were objects to be chased by men. Boleyn is owned by the King
- Hunting was a popular pastime in tudor court
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- Untypical presentation of a woman as dangerous and wild - Wyatt values Boleyn for who she is rather than her money
- Typical dehumanisation of a woman
- Chasing a woman is a typical theme in 16th century literature
- Typical use of latin and roman symbolism
- Untypical use of a petrarchan sonnet form - expresses fatigue and sorrow rather than love
- use of enjambment is untypical of Tudor poetry
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- Feminist critics:a woman is typically presented as something to be chased - unhealthy patriarchal idea
- Marxists - women used as tools for power and money
- Freudian: is this power greed?
- Linking poems
- Futility of love - Non sum Qualis
- Social expectations - At an Inn
- Passion - The Flea
- Elusive women - La Bella Dame Sans Merci
- Key Themes
- Elusive women
- Passion
- Futility of love
- Longevity of love
- Men owning women
- Chasing women
- Destructive love
- Key Quotes
- "The vain travail hath wearied me so sore"
- "I am of them that farthest cometh behind"
- "faynting I followe"
- "sithens in a net I seke to holde the wynde"
- "Noli me tangere, for Caesar's I am"
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