The lover for shamefastness poem by Thomus Wyatt

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.”