Petrarch and Wyatt Compared

In the world of poetry, imitation occurs at e real turn. Many poets go forth take an original reverberate of poetry and copy the style. This can be said about Sir Thomas Wyatt who attempts to mimic Petrarchs form when the symbols, tone, images, rhyme, and setting in Wyatts poem Whoso list to hunt ar compared to Petrarchs Rime 190 it becomes unpatterned that he failed to embody the essence of Petrarch in his writing. Symbolism plays a with child(p) role in most poems. A pure-white vigour in an emerald clarification/Appeared to me, with two antlers of gold (Petrarch lines 1-2) is a perfect example of symbolism is poetry.Petrarch is not actually talking about a white deer with well-disposed antlers, hes talking about a beautiful woman with golden hair. Wyatt also uses a deer as a symbol Whoso list to hunt, I know where is an hind (Wyatt line 1) a hind is a deer and Wyatt is also using the deer as a symbol for a woman. This is the first similarity, or imitation, between Wyatt a nd Petrarch.The second symbolism the two poems share is the shoe collar around the does neck. In Petrarchs poem it says I spied on her neck, No one dares touch me,/Graven in topaz and diamond stones,/For Caesar wills I should always run free. (Petrarch lines 9-11). In Wyatts poem it says And graven in diamonds in letters plain/ in that location is written, her fair neck round about,/Noli me tangere, for Caesars I am,/And wild to hold, though I seem tame (Wyatt lines 11-14). The two are similar only in the idea of a collar and Caesar. Petrarchs does collar claims she is free objet dart Wyatts does collar claims she is property. Although many strive to assimilate known poets, sometimes they fall flat. Such is the case of Sir Thomas Wyatts attempt to check Petrarchs tone.In Petrarchs Rime 190, the tone is reverence towards a womans purity and violator in the lines A snow white doe in an emerald clarification/To me appeared, with antlers soft of gold (Petrarch lines 5-8). Wyatts tone is more of sexual desire for an unobtainable good looking woman who isnt necessarily pure Whoso list to hunt, I know where is an hind (Wyatt line 1) hints that this woman is chased by a large amount of men for her looks (also hinting that she isnt pure) But as for me, helasI may no more tapes Wyatts sexual desire for this woman and his disappointment in her unavailability to him. Petrarchs woman is a pure and beautiful woman while Wyatts is a sexy, impure temptress. Another aspect Wyatt did not compare to Petrarch is visual imagery. Petrarch has a very beautiful way of using visual images which he proves with the lines one through four A snow white doe in an emerald clarification/To me appeared, with antlers soft of gold,/And leapt two streams, under a laurels shade,/ pricy sunrise, in the winters sultry cold. (Petrarch lines 1-4).The closest visual image in Wyatts mutant is And graven in diamonds in letters plain (Wyatt line 11) which is hushed very far away from bein g good visual imagery. create verbally is a defining point of Petrarchs poetry with a rhyme organization of abba abba cde cde. Wyatt kept the rhyme shunning of the octave exactly changed the sestet to cdd cee. There is written, her fair neck round about,/Noli me tangere, for Caesars I am,/And wild to hold, though I seem tame. (Wyatt line 12-14) is an example of the changed rhyme scheme. Wyatt also resorted to eye-rhyme which is also shown in the quotation for the words am and tame.Petrarchs poems held firm to the original rhyme scheme of abba abba cde cde and each rhyme is a complete rhyme rather than Wyatts purposeless eye-rhyming. Petrarchs rhyme scheme, however, is almost always only visible in the Italian form and it loses rhyme scheme when translated into English. Una candida cerva lerba/Verde mapparve, con duo corna doro/Fra due riviere, allombra dun alloro,/Levando l sole, a la stagione ascerba (Petrarch line 1-4) this Italian passage from the poem follows the abba stag e of rhyming with perfect rhymes which his whole poem follows without using a single(a) eye-rhyme.The setting of Petrarchs Rime 190 is beautifully described in the very first stanza A snow white doe in an emerald glade/To me appeared, with antlers soft of gold,/And leapt two streams, under a laurels shade,/Near sunrise, in the winters bitter cold. (Petrarch lines 1-4). The reader automatically knows that the poem takes place in a woodwind instrument with two streams. On the other hand, Wyatts poem has no setting to show for. There are almost no descriptive aspects of his poem. After analyzing these cardinal aspects of poetry, it becomes clear that Wyatts imitation of Petrarch only goes so deep. Wyatt merely used Petrarchs ideas but failed to perfect Petrarchs unique and beautiful language where Petrarch shows beauty, Wyatt shows nothing. Wyatt took a pure form and warped it into something not as good as the original.