Love In The Renaissance

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had a very powerful way of controlling a man's heart and mind, and I also plan to show that love was a reoccurring theme of many of the poets writing during the Renaissance.
Wyatt and Surrey were two contemporary poets that wrote on the issue of love. Both of the poets derived some of their ideas concerning love from such works as Petrarch's Rime 140, and they also used each other to write about how they felt about love. In both of these sonnets Wyatt and Surrey wrote about how the issue of love labored heavily on their minds and in their hearts. Wyatt's poem "The Long Love That in My Thought Doth Harbor" and in Surrey's poem "Love, That Doth Reign and Live Within My Thought;" were two poems written during the Renaissance that clearly showed that love was an emotion that was use often as a means of inspiration for writing poetry. Wyatt and Surrey both wrote in what seems to be their own worlds that love was an emotion that remained closely to their hearts and constantly in their ...

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