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'They flee from me' by sir Thomas Wyatt: Exam notes and critical analysis

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FIRST STANZA: 1:They flee from me that sometime did me seek. 2: With naked foot ,stalking in my chamber  3: I have seen them gentle ,tame & meek 4: That now are wild and do not remember. 5:That sometime they put himself in danger. 6:To take bread at my hand: & now they range. 7:Busily seeking with a continual change. SECOND STANZA: 8:Thanked be fortune it hath been otherwise 9: Twenty times better , but once in special 10:In thin array after a pleasant guise 11: When her loose gown from her shoulders did fall  12: And she caught me in her arms long and small 13:Therewith all sweetly did me kiss And softly said "dear heart how lol you thi" THIRD STANZA: 14:It was no dream: I lay broat waking 15:But all is turned thorough my gentleness 16:Into strange fashion of foresaking 17: And I have leave to go to her goodness 18:And she also ,to use newfangleness. 19:But since that I so kindly am ...

Thomas Wyatt "WHOSO LIST TO HUNT?" POINTWISE THEMES AND CHARACTER SKETCHES WITH CRITICAL ANALYSIS & BACKGROUND

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THE  POEM: 1: WHOSO LIST TO HUNT, I KNOW WHERE IS AN HIND. 2: BUT AS FAR AS FOR ME HELAS ,I MAY NO MORE  3: THE VAIN TRAVAIL HATH WEARIED ME SO SORE. 4: I AM OF THEM THAT FARTHEST COMTH BEHIND 5: YET MAY I BY NO MEANS MY WEARIED MIND 6: DRAW FROM THE DEER BUT AS SHE FLEETH AFORE 7: FAINTING I FOLLOW. I LEAVE OFF THEREFORE,  8: SITHENS IN A NET I SEEK TO HOLD THE WIND 9: WHO LIST HIM, I OUT HIM OUT OF DOUBT. 10: AS WELL AS I MAY SPEND HIS TIME IN VAIN. 11: AND GRAVEN WITH DIAMONDS IN LETTERS PLAIN . 12: THERE IS WRITTEN ,HER FAIR NECK ROUND ABOUT . 13: NOLI ME TANGERE FOR CAESER'S I AM 14: AND WILD FOR TO HOLD THOUGH I SEEM TAME. SUMMARY: The poem starts from the poet's aspirations to pursue and present his love for his beloved reportedly Anne Boleyn the queen at the court of monarch Henry VIII. 1 :The beginning verses of the poem portrays us the image of a poet as tired and sick of pursuing his love ( Anne Boleyn). Wh...

"ONE DAY I WROTE HER NAME" POEM BY EDMUND SPENSER SHORT SUMMARY & CRISP CRITICAL ANALYSIS OF THE POEM

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POEM 1: ONE DAY I WROTE HER NAME UPON STRAND 2: BUT CAME THE WAVES &WASHED IT AWAY 3: AGAIN I WROTE IT WITH A SECOND HAND 4: BUT CAME THE TIDES AND MADE MY PAINS HIS PREY 5: VAIN MAN SHE SAID THAT DOST VAIN ASSAY 6: A MORTAL THING SO TO IMMORTALIZE   7: FOR I MYSELF SHALL LIKE TO DECAY  &EKE MY NAME BE WIPED OUT LIKEWISE 8: NOT SO" (QUOD I ) LET BASER THINGS DEVISE 9: TO DIE IN DUST BUT YOU SHALL LIVE BY FAME  10: MY VERSE YOUR VIRTUES RARE SHALL ETERNIZE  11: AND IN HEAVEN WRITE YOUR GLORIOUS NAME 12: WHERE WHENAS DEATH SHALL ALL THE WORLD SUBDUE   13: OUR LOVE SHALL LIVE &LATER LIFE RENEW SHORT AND CRISP SUMMARY WITH ANALYSIS AND THEMES: 1: Edmund Spenser was one of the great writers of Elizabethan era , the era in which Shakespeare sufficed and prospered, Edmund's sonnets are one of the great literary pieces available to us ever since the elibethan era and on this sonnet an Hollywood song is also composed n...

Sweet Warrior by Edmund Spenser summary ,critical analysis and notes.

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THE P OEM: 1: SWEET WARRIOR! WHEN SHALL I HAVE PEACE WITH YOU  2: HIGH TUME IT IS THIS WAR NOW ENDED WERE 3: WHICH I NO LONGER CAN ENDURE TO SUE 4: NE YOUR INCESSANT BATT'RY MORE TO BEAR 5: SO WEAK MY POWERS ,SO SORE MY WOUNDS APPEAR. 6: THAT WONDER IS HOW I SHOULD LIVE A JOT SEEINGNG MY HEART THROUGH- LANCED EVERYTHING WITH THOUSANDS ARROWS,WHICH YOUR EYES HAVE SHOT: 7: YE SHOOT YE SHARPLY STILL & SPARE ME NOT , 8: BUT GLORY THINK TO MAKE THESE  CRUEL STOURS. 9: YE CRUEL ONE WHAT GLORY CAN BE GOT 10: IN SLAYING HIM THAT WOULD LIVE GLADLY YOURS, 11: MAKE PEACE THEREFORE & GRANT ME TIMELY GRACE, 12: THAT ALL MY WOUNDS WILL HEAL IN LITTLE SPACE ANALYSIS & SUMMARY OF THE SONNET Edmund Spenser is an artist of Elizabethan times just around the time of Shakespeare's the time in which getting the eternal , unshakable and true love these feelings were very dominating for people living in Elizabethan time. ...