Who So List Flashcards
What literary movement was Sit Thomas’s Wyatt
Renaissance (rebirth)
What type of love does Who so list portray
Courtly love
What structure is who so list
English Sonnet
octet volta sestet rhyming couplet
ABBA, ABBA /\ ABBA CC
What is the extended metaphor in who so list
A hunt/hunting
Predator/prey
What does noli me tangere mean
Touch me not
What does noli me tangere come from
It is either connected/a rewriting of one of Petrarch’s poems OR
It is said by Jesus to Mary Magdalene after resurrection
What does ‘seek to hold the wynde’ mean
It is a metaphor of catching wind in a net
Catching the impossible
It means the woman is insubstantial, not something he can hold
What is the significance of ‘graven’
It is permanent
It is death like imagery
It means she is trapped like this til death
What is the significance of diamonds
She is valuable And owned by a man
The hardest jewellery, impossible to track
They are linked to steadfastness and loyalty
What might Wyatt be referring to with the necklace
Anne Boleyn
The necklace she wore
She was a powerful, untameable figure and Henry even broke up the church in order to tame her and marry her
What is the significance of the repeated ‘f’s
It is an panting sound
A consonance that proves how tired he is of a fruitless hunt
It is feminising, especially the fainting, and makes an interesting point about Courtly Love and about how it is a lack of action
What does vayne travail mean
Pointless effort for no reward
There is no way his work will lead to what he wants
Is the woman in who so list powerful
She is an object to be possessed, an object of desire
However she only has the power to ‘flee’ so she is ultimately powerless and only seen as a prize
