Whoso List To Hunt Flashcards
1
Q
What does the title, “Whoso list to hount I knowe where is an hynde” suggest?
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- suggests that deer is already caught = confirmed by last line
- offers lady to the reader almost as a challenge - reflects poems patriarchal social context in which women were property of men as they were passed between father and husband
2
Q
” for me, helas, I may no more”
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- negative connotations (sadly)
- Wyatt seems to pity himself
- ceasure starts here = breaks in telling his story as he contemplates his past
- assonance on ‘m’ syllables makes them appear longer and the tone weary
3
Q
“travail”
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- french translation “to work” = linguistic details links to Anne Boleyn growing up in France
4
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“hath weried me so sore”
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- assonance combined w/verb emphasises his pain
- harsh on assonance on ‘s’ syllables = literary raw pain
5
Q
“Drawe from the Deere”
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- ‘D’ sounds are long and drawn out reflects almost a dreamy state - is he dreaming of her captivating beauty?
6
Q
“but as she fleeth afore”
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- he is still enchated by her - supported by verb “fainting”
- alliteration of ‘f’ sounds link deer to speaker yet seperated by line break
7
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“Sithens in a nett I seke to hold the wynde.”
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- deer (woman) is personified as the wind = depicting woman’s evasive nature
8
Q
Where does the volta occur?
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- after sithens (Line 9)
9
Q
“I put him owte of dowbte”
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- speaker shows futility of the hunt
10
Q
“graven”
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- harsh verb
- indenting something
- contradictory - that something so beautiful is indented/supressed
- she is in a beautiful cage
11
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“‘Noli me tangere for Cesars I ame”
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- the diamonds highlight and embelish the deers beauty (drawing to her) yet warns others off is contradictory
- Cesars - Wyatt cannot oppenly state ‘Henry’ yet his similarity to Cesar makes Wyatt’s allusion more credible
12
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Wyatt context
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- he introduced the romantic Petrachan sonnet the English readership
- Wyatt = important in introducing the personal perspective into English poetry
13
Q
Use of conceit
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- Wyatt uses conceit, extended metaphor, the sport of hunting a woman is likened to courting an unattainable woman
14
Q
literary context
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- love poetry often alluded to the courtship of a woman as a battlefield for men
- concentrates on love as a despairing and vicious pursuit
15
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Themes
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love is futile
love and violence
unattainable love
