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.”

Symbolism in Melodic Trains by JOHN ASHBURY

Symbolic Elements – Melodic Trains as the drama of life

Only the wait in stations is vague and Dimensionless, like oneself.  How do they decide how much Time to spend on each?  One being to suspect there’s no
Rule or that it’s applied haphazardly.

Next, the train takes turns like a pencil and the poet experiences that life too is like a train full of complexity and running to its destination – death. As in an ordinary journey, the train stops at various stations for brief moments. We also pause at some state of life before turning into a new direction. The faces of the passengers standing outside the platforms of different stations melt into the faces of those million faces, the poet reads different expressions. Some carry on eternal sadness. Some reflect disillusionment with life and its receptive appearance; some show anxiety about the future. There are questions in every mind.  Will the taxi be available; will someone come to welcome me? These and many others perplex the mind of travelers. As the following lines show:

The sadness on the faces of children on the platform,
The concern of the grownups for connections, for the chances
Of getting a taxi, since these have no timetable.
You get one if you can find one though in principle

These questions asked in ordinary life reflect those questions in the next world. The poet contemplates some spiritual and metaphysical issues at this point. The complexities of the world symbolize those of the hereafter and regarding the future of man in the next world. The is the haphazard dimension in life which disturbs all routines and the same is to be found on the Day the Judgment when this haphazardness blends into a unique Death which rampages everything on the earth.

One of these issues is the role of chance in the course of life. Although chance is just a segment of the total certainty, chance governs a large part of our existence. The total existence of human activity is controlled by chance, which may be termed as Fate.

Chance, fate, stages of journey and chorus let us enter into the drama of life which is more visible in the following remarkable lines:

It’s as though a visible chorus called up the different
Stages of the journey, singing about them and bring them

The train journey becomes a semblance to the drama in real life. As the play has acts and chorus as the character, so is the situation here. Every man and woman along with their family members act as chorus throughout all the stages of their life – tragic or comic may be.