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2. W HOSO L IST TO H UNT Sir Thomas Wyatt

3. This poem compares love to a hunt. Symbolic Meaning Form – Italian Sonnet Theme – Love is not always attainable. W HOSO L IST TO H UNT Character in Poem General Meaning Historical Meaning HunterA man pursuing a woman Thomas Wyatt DeerThe woman being pursued Anne Boleyn CaesarThe man who already has claim to the woman Henry VIII

4. Lines 1-2 The speaker (hunter) begins the poem by telling other hunters that he knows where to find a hind (female deer); however, he is no longer going to hunt this deer. Lines 3-4: Hunting this deer has been such hard work (“vain travail”) that the hunter is weary and has fallen into last place in the hunt. W HOSO L IST TO H UNT

5. Lines 5-7 Although the hunt has wearied the hunter, he cannot take his mind off of the deer. He still follows in exhaustion. Lines 7-8 The hunter finally decides to stop his hunt because he knows it will be impossible for him to catch the deer. He shows that it is impossible by comparing his hunt to trying a catch wind in a net, an obviously futile action. W HOSO L IST TO H UNT

6. Lines 9-10 He assures those other hunters of this deer that they will waste their time just as he has. Lines 11-13 They cannot catch this deer because she has already been claimed. She wears Caesar’s collar. Julius Caesar’s tame deer wore collars inscribed with the phrase Noli me tangere (“touch me not”). W HOSO L IST TO H UNT

7. Line 14 Although this deer seems tame, she is “wild.” What does this mean? The speaker could be referring to the woman herself – Caesar’s claim hasn’t altered her wildness or fickleness. He could be referring to the risks involved in pursuing her against Caesar’s wishes. W HOSO L IST TO H UNT

8. S ONNET 30 S ONNET 75 Edmund Spenser

9. S ONNET 30 Paradox – an apparent contradiction that is somehow true. The paradox that fire can harden ice, and ice can feed fire makes sense given that love is powerful enough to change the laws of nature. Form – Spenserian Sonnet

10. S ONNET 30 Lines 1-4 The speaker compares his love to ice. She is cold (indifferent to him), and his fire (passion for her) cannot break this indifference. In fact, his fire makes her ice harden. Lines 5-8 The speaker states that his love’s coldness does not temper his passion. In fact, his passion intensifies the more indifferent this girls acts.

11. S ONNET 30 Lines 9-12 The speaker marvels at this miraculous exchange – that fire can harden ice, and ice can feed fire. How can this be possible? Lines 13-14 (these lines reveal the theme) Love is powerful. Love is even powerful enough to defy the laws of nature.

12. S ONNET 75 This poem provides a dialogue, a conversation, between a man and a woman. Eternizing conceit – Submit to my love, and I’ll make you famous and even immortal through my writing. Theme – Poetry about love can make love immortal. Form – Spenserian Sonnet

13. S ONNET 75 Lines 1-4 A man writes his love’s name in the sand. The waves come in and wash away her name, so he again writes her name in the sand. The waves again wash away her name.

14. S ONNET 75 Lines 5-8 The woman finds the man’s efforts foolish (“vain”). She tells him that he cannot immortalize a mortal thing. He cannot keep her name written in the sand forever. She says that like her name was washed away by the waves, she too (her “name”– her life, existence) will be “wiped out” (she will die, be forgotten).

15. S ONNET 75 Lines 9-12 The man will NOT allow his love to die and be forgotten. Baser (vile, dishonorable) things can do this, but she is much more important. He will make his love famous and eternal, keep her name in the heavens, by writing about her in his “verse” (poetry).

16. S ONNET 75 Lines 13-14 Even when death conquers the entire world, it will not be able to conquer them or their love because he has kept them alive in his poetry.