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List Hunt Thomas Wyatt's Whoso Originary Poem X3

Front Thomas Wyatt's Whoso List to Hunt came from an originary poem...? x3
Back •Petrarch's Sonnet 190 Petrarchan sonnets often featured an animal, symbolising an aspect or object of love.
•While Petrarch focuses on the vision of the 'white doe', who the speakr follows because he is enchanted by that vision. Wyatt instead challenges other men to the chase 'Whoso list to hunt, I know where is an hind'. The invitation may imply her too-ready availability
•Subtle change in echoing apostrophe begins sestet 'who list her hunt' - now addressing individ, closing in on emotional quarry, the desire and failure of his own hunt - the hind already claimed by "Ceasar". Near-repeititon device which exploits the form's potential harmony and disjunctions simultaneously.

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