What should i say wyatt analysis

He is regretful that he has wasted time trying for success in love, but philosophical in the knowledge that he now knows to give up on such a futile pursuit. Here the narrator explains that there is now no guide to help him as the 'stars' which led him are now hidden.

Reason, as his personified companion, is drowned, and he remains in turmoil of returning to the safety and security of home. He also seems anxious of what home is, which may reflect on Wyatt's many ambassadorial missions.

This brutal and gruesome simile is used to illustrate the base cruelty with which social relations change within the Tudor court. The poem compares the loyalty of the hunting falcons with the fickle attentions of the human courtiers, as well as comparing former friends to parasites leaving a dead host. The narrator asks his audience to reflect on the time they have spent and wasted teasing, misleading and beguiling their lovers.

The audience is told that beauty is temporary, and they will be left, in time, as wistful and unsatisfied as the narrator. This lute song is tinged with sadness and regret, but also has a raw, bitter edge typical of Wyatt. This song is a direct appeal for the narrator's lover to reveal her true intent. The next lines talk about being able to flee into his hearts desires, the vast forest found within his desires. The speaker could hide there, unable to perform his duties to his king and focus on the pain and sadness this unattainable love has given him.

The last couplet in the poem gives the speaker a reason to disregard his own desires in order to help his king. As long as the speaker is able to live a faithful life and honor his pledge to his king or lord his life becomes one of virtue. This poem has a clear reflection of the influences of Petrarch.

Despite the suffering caused by things unattainable, a courtier must still perform his duties to those in court in order to be considered honorable or virtuous. These poems both seem to complain about the every day pressures found in such a society built upon honor and servitude. Wyatt, Whoso list to hunt. Whoso list to hunt, I know where is an hind, But as for me, alas, I may no more. I am of them that farthest cometh behind. The vain travail hath wearied me so sore, 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, Since 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. A white doe on the green grass appeared to me, with two golden horns, between two rivers, in the shade of a laurel, when the sun was rising in the unripe season. Her look was so sweet and proud that to follow her i left every task, like the miser who as he seeks treasure sweetens his trouble with delight.

And the sun had already turned midday; my eyes were tired by looking but not sated, when I fell into the water, and she disappeared. In the next line, he exclaims that he has given up the hunt because it actually has brought him to the point of physical pain and suffering.

In lines 4 and 5 he tells the reader that he cannot bring himself to think of anything but the deer, and as she runs away from him again; he follows for a short amount of time then again gives up. The speaker of the poem with this new realization, understands that this deer already belongs to someone else.

Sir Wyatt in his own sonnet, relates the deer to Anne Boleyn in how she is too, unattainable. In Wyatt exclaiming that he is giving up the hunt for the deer is equivalent to him giving up wooing Anne because she already has a figurative collar around her neck; she belong to Henry VIII.

Below is the complete poem; it maintains iambic pentameter throughout, and carries a rhyme scheme that flows ABABBCC throughout three, seven-line stanzas. Busily seeking with a continual change. It was no dream: I lay broad waking. But all is turned thorough my gentleness Into a strange fashion of forsaking; And I have leave to go of her goodness, And she also, to use newfangleness.

But since that I so kindly am served I would fain know what she hath deserved. As early as the first line, the tone of the poem is that of regret and dismay, for at one point, the woman was looking for the speaker; when she was actively seeking his company and reciprocating their friendship together.

He continues on, dwelling on his past relationship. The poet feels rather shocked to find out the total change in the behavior of the beloved. He has had a keen observation of the behavior of the beloved and has reached the conclusion that, after all, she has betrayed him and has falsified her vow or promise. The poet, therefore, feels sad and broken-hearted. Remember Me. Please contact the developer of this form processor to improve this message.

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Should I be led With doubleness? Nay, nay, mistress! I promised you, And you promised me, To be as true As I would be. But since I see Your double heart, Farewell my part! Can ye say nay? But you said That I alway Should be obeyed? And thus betrayed Or that I wiste— Farewell, unkissed.