Love and Life
Derek King
English 12
Love in life takes many forms. These many forms are exemplified in many ways, such as our actions, our feelings, movies, and sonnets written by poets such as Shakespeare, Thomas Wyatt and John Milton. Each of these poets portrays a different form of love that we experience throughout life. These forms include unrequited love, true love, and love of talents. All these aspects of love that run parallel to our lives are depicted in sonnets written during the time of rebirth, the Renaissance.
Unrequited love is featured in Thomas Wyatt's sonnet "Whoso List to Hunt." The speaker of the poem is in love with a woman he cannot have, and therefore the love is unreturned. The hunt for love is metaphorically represented by the hunt for a deer; this hunt is making the speaker grow tired: "The vain travail hath wearied me so sore"(3). The speaker warns other "hunters" about this "deer": "Who list her hunt, I put him out of doubt, / As well as I......
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