Peace and Lies

 While reading through the sonnets, there were a few that truly stuck out to me with their intertwinement of words and almost acted as a juxtaposition. This comparison created a spin giving off a new approach to what we may think of topics normally. It is truly poetic the way this piece is written about a melancholic relationship about giving someone your all and not receiving the same in return. In the section, "because I have thee still kept from lies to blame" the writer explains that no matter the efforts and abilities put forth, unfair and poor treatment is elicited by the other person. Going further, this feeling is described as the person (I am assuming who Wyatt is talking about) standing cold yet incomplete when asked for help by Wyatt. Personification is brought into the portion by describing salty tears being present as if they are a person when he instead wants to be alone rather than accompanied. Fear and hope burn and freeze like ice even though these are feelings, written by Wyatt. True melancholy is being shown through the writing because our writer tends to give light to specific artifacts and turns them dark and in a state of dejection. There is no peace. There is a world surrounded by lies and lost feelings. When melancholy is felt, especially love melancholy, the world can turn dark and all that you see is in a negative shadow rather than a positive light described in this piece by Wyatt. 


https://blogs.bl.uk/digitisedmanuscripts/2019/07/writing-wyatt.html


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  1. Megan McCambridgeMarch 2, 2023 at 6:05 PM

    I agree with you when it comes to sonnets giving a new approach to different topics. I think that sonnets challenge us to think of these things in new ways because of the language used. Even sonnets written in modern day English need deciphering because of the manipulation necessary to keep the rhyme scheme. I also love how you talk about personification because I think about this often when thinking about sonnets. Sonnets are typically about a woman the man cannot have, but the woman the man can't have can also be religion being personified (or really any topic). This makes sonnets so versatile. Great blog!

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