A “The lover for
shamefastness”
“The long love that in my thaught I
harbor"
The lover for shame
fastness is romantic passionate praiseworthy and thought provoking poem by
Thomas wyatt. He is famous for giving a Sonnet it's pure English form. He translate
the Italian patriarch Sonnets into English. He took the idea from The Patriarch
Sonnet , but the stylization of the subject is wyatt's own.
This poem is about the highly emotional and sentimental passion "love"
. The same idea is discussed by surrey in his beautiful poem "complaint
of a lover rebuked". the poet
seems to have gone Far Away on the road of love but his beloved behaviour make
his condition miaserable.
"The
long love that in my thought I harbour........ Displaying his banner"
In the very start of the poem the
poet accept that love take control over his heart and mind. Love is personified
as the lovers master. It appears boldly on his face and shows his occupation by
waving a flag on it. The poet is unable to control the overwhelming nature of
love which occupies the territory of his heart and mind.
“She
that me learneth to love and to suffer”
Here the poet says that, that is his Beloved who taught
him to love and suffer .she is now not happy with him. She seems to be selfish
and left him in the time of crisis. She wants from him to control his Passion
Of Love, she has rejected his expression of love. So the love has retreated and
hidden deep itself into core of his heart and would not come out at any call.
"What may I do, when my master
fearth"
Now the poet feel himself fix in this situation. He find
it hard to decide what to do next? what course of step should be taken in the
future? He find his master is fearing i-e love.Because he is rejected by his
beloved. But the lover decides that he would stay with his master in his entire
life because he thinks that “the real thing is not service but to being
ready for service at any time”. The lover vows to remain faithful to his
master. He determined to live a life of faithfulness and such a life is worth
living in the world.
The poet concept of love in this poem is Masculine. He
further increases the emotional intensity of the poem with vivid metaphor and
complex rhymes. Instead of familiar diction of love poet uses the language of
Business and politics.
The word “forest” implies darkness and unseen
dangers suggesting
" A psychological landscape bristling
with feelings and dark enough to hide in" the diction and the imagery shows
the harshness of tone.
To conclude it can be said that the theme of
the poem is love poet uses the language of business and politics. As compared
to surray poetry wyatt's poetry lacks artistic softness Rhythm and musicality.
The language shows that the poet is simple person and does not know how to
overcoat his feelings like usually lovers do.
“If a man is not faithful to his own individuality, he
cannot be loyal to anything.”
