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The Word "Wild" - Online Term Paper

The Word "Wild"

In the poetry of love and desire, the concept of wildness can often have connotations of unbridled passion – a very sensual and physical way of losing oneself in lust. However, here Wyatt takes the word “wild”, with all of its overtones in such poetry, to instead represent a change in a relationship from mutual trust to frantic fear. Here, the hunting imagery that is so often a theme in his, and other, Petrarchan-influenced poetry is inverted in the first two lines: instead of he as a masculine figure doing the hunting, “they” “seek” the speaker, and come “stalking in [his] chamber”. However, those that were once tame, who once sought him out in a very deliberate way, have now become ...

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links the word “wild” to the phrase “do not remember” implies a loss of humanity that occurs along with this memory loss, and which contrasts quite profoundly with his perfect, detailed, and perhaps somewhat idealized reminiscences in the second ...

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Added: 4/4/2011 01:35:41 PM
Submitted By: belbel32
Category: Poetry & Poets
Type: Free Paper
Words: 246
Pages: 1

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