Sophisticated A/A* quality notes and analysis for AQA Love Poems pre-1900: Wyatt's 'Whoso list to hount' and Blake's 'The Garden of Love' - covering EVERY assessment objective required for A Level English Literature, including key quotations, themes and methods, context and critics! Comparisons are...
‘Who so list to hount I knowe where is an hynde’ - Wyatt
Key ideas about love Key techniques/ features about love (AO2) Comparison with other Comparison with ‘Tess Comparison with ‘The Context (AO3) Alternative interpretations (AO5)
(AO1) poems (AO4) of the D'Urbervilles’ Go-Between’ (AO4)
(AO4)
Power Slight predatory tone/ ’La Belle Dame’ Hunt reminiscent ‘General appeal Reversal of gender -Feminist might focus on the
imbalance/ conspiratorial -Both narrators of Ch11 - speaker of the title roles with Wyatt violence of the hunt and on the
‘Diamondes’ woman worthy of suffer from resembles Alec’s suggests the ‘faynting’ metaphor of the woman as a
violence/ hunt doggedly pursuing feelings that
devotion? -prize/ luxury lack of concern deer, which objectifies/
their love with many can share’
Religious allusion ‘Noli me for Tess being Hunting was a dehumanises her
considerable (Hillis Miller)
tangere’ conveys woman’s energy+devotion pursued (AO5) leisure activity for
virtue/ evading capture but the despite knowing British nobility -Modern perspective puts man in
last line reveals she is ‘wylde’ that it is probably ‘I will be your predatory situation
contradicts the perception of a futile master again. If Wyatt was a courtier
vulnerable creature being you are any and ambassador in -Wyatt as a hunter is inadequate
chased or domestication -Physical pain man’s wife you Henry VIII’s court, and is outrun/ has no hope yet
being the direct are mine!’ (Ch47) meaning he was an
he continues to pursue/ his
consequence of early English
exponent of ‘courtly endeavours have been in vain ->
love Men are typically love’ but also stumbling prosody of ‘farthest
active seekers of rumoured to have cometh behinde’
love been intimate with
Anne Boleyn, Henry’s -Love throws people into
Futility/ Effective sonnet to highlight -Desire bumping 2nd wife contradictions+ obsessions+
Despondency/ despair, which is condensed into social confusion as Wyatt becomes a
Humiliating/ into just 14 lines and boundaries Wyatt one of first slave of desire
Causes mental constricted to iambic beloved is English lyrics poets,
despair/anxiety and responsible for the
pentameter, making feeling unavailable/ -Sympathy towards narrator
physical importation of
exhaustion/ Painful more empathic and intense, ungraspable/ suffering from unrequited love
Petrarch and the
+obsessive fixation hence successful in conveying unfathomable OR woman being pursued?
Sonnet
emotions
How -Elevate women -Humility of speaker+humble
logical/rational/ Metaphor of him trying to tone directs our sympathy
sensible is love? capture the ‘wynde’ ‘in a nett’ -’Death’ of a
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