Who so list to hount Flashcards
Who wrote it?
Sir Thomas Wyatt
When was it wrote?
1500s
What is the context?
- He was accused of having a sexual relationship with Anne Boleyn.
- Anne Boleyn’s execution was 1536.
- Early Renaissance period.
- Wyatt is the creator of the sonnet.
What kind of love is represented within this poem?
Unrequited love, as it’s clear that she’s running away from him. He’s the chaser.
What does the title suggest?
The female character is dehumanized. She is viewed as prey and the male speaker is hunting for her.
What does the animal imagery of ‘deere’ suggest?
The dehumanization of women and also innocence, as deer’s tend to represent purity.
Why can we suggest that the female character is Anne Boleyn?
The forbidding references and warnings ‘wild for to hold though I seem tame’.
The references to materialism, such as ‘graven with diamonds’
What is the dark political irony surrounding the context?
He attended Blood Mary’s christening, yet she killed her son.
Underlying hatred of the monarchy?
What does the term ‘graven’ show?
That she is bound to the belonging of Henry VIII.
What does ‘fleeth afore’ show.
Men have a disregard for what women actually want, especially because Wyatt tended to play around with his power (he had many mistresses), therefore he ‘fainting I follow’. Lack of regard for the female desire.
When is the volta and what does it represent?
The second ‘who so list to hunt’, as it shifts from him describing the hunt to sort of explaining the faults and problematic aspects of this courtship and is somewhat warning others.
What does the alliteration of ‘hunt’ and ‘hynde’ represent?
The pace of the hunt.
How could this link to Gatsby?
Gatsby and Daisy’s unrequited love. Daisy sort of plays into it, (perhaps like Anne Boleyn), yet doesn’t actually feel any romantic feelings towards him. Maybe Wyatt is attracted to her materialism, like Gatsby is to Daisy.
What other poem could this be linked to?
The flea- it’s also about rejection and the futile attempt to take a woman’s virginity.
What kind of sonnet?
Petrarchan sonnet.
Has an octave. Rhyme scheme: ABBAABBA.
Has a sestet. Separate rhyme. CDDCEE.
