Who so list to hount - Sir Thomas Wyatt Flashcards

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Types of Love

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unattainable love, forbidden desire, thrill of the chase.

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Literal meaning

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hunting a female deer

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Allegorical meaning

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hunt becomes courtship many suitors, wild, knows of desirability, she’s not a victim but knowing

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Context

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Renaissance blood sport - hunting
male pass time
Supposably about Anne Boleyn who lived most of her life in French court. King Henry VIII and AB only married 2 years.

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‘And wylde for to hold though I seme tame.’

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like a wild animal. paradox, seems tame but wild animal, hynde is owned, rare and wild yet owned.

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‘spend his tyme in vain.’

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interference of another man, ambiguity, ironic - not told who. alleviate king’s fear.

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‘Noli me tangere for Cesars I ame’

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possession. do not touch me I am Cesar - means king.

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Form

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ABAB/CDCD/EFEF/GG. 4 quatrains and rhyming couplet. - Shakespearian sonnet.

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