Who wrote 'whoso list to hount i knowe where is an hind?'
Thomas Wyatt
Andrew Marvell
John Keats
William Shakespeare
Thomas Wyatt was said to have had a relationship with Anne Boleyn
Henry VIII let Thomas Wyatt go, because he didn't believe he had slept with Anne Boleyn.
Wyatt's aim as a poet was to with the , in a time when it was thought and .
A significant amount of his literary output consists of and of sonnets by the Italian poet ; he also wrote sonnets of his own, experimenting with and .
Who did Wyatt influence?
Keats
Blake
Shakespeare
Rossetti
Wyatt is also one of the of the convention in poetry according to which the is painted as and .
Who was hunting for in medieval times?
The Poor
The Royalty
Women
The Working Class
The Aristocracy
Children
Hunting became an accepted for the elaborate rituals of and , with the represented by the .
Helas is a word for God
Yet may I by no means my mind Draw from the deer, but as she afore I follow.
What does the enjambment in lines 6 + 7 signify?
That the speaker is fainting
That the deer is in control of the speaker
That the deer is fainting
What is 'i seek to hold the wind' a metaphor for?
The carefree spirit of the woman
The carefree spirit of the speaker
He is trying to catch the wind
He is trying to catch the deer
He is trying to do the impossible
'Noli me tangere' means 'Please touch me.'
Who does the woman belong to?
The speaker
Cesar
Henry VIII
Herself
'her fair neck round about' could symbolise what? (In terms of Anne Boleyn)
Her perfume
Her veins
Her necklace
Her clothes
Her scarf
Her execution
Her death
Her collar
Her slavery
The of the '' + '' sounds in the two lines reinforce the and sounds of a
What type of poem is whoso?
A restoration poem
A sonnet
A ballad
a limerick
a haiku
What line does the volta occur?
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
10
What are some different interpretations of this poem?
The speaker is trying to catch a deer
The speaker is deluded and is imagining a deer
The speaker is trying to court many women
The speaker is trying to court a woman
The deer/woman is the true victim of this poem
This is a metaphor for the relationship between Wyatt, Henry VIII and Anne Boleyn
The speaker is telling the story about how he caught a deer
The speaker is a victim of desire