Whoso List to Hunt

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Whoso List to Hunt

• by Sir Thomas Wyatt

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• AP/H English 12
• Dercher
• Mini Read
• Reading Indicators
• R.1.3.4
• R.1.4.5
• R.1.4.9
• R.1.4.10

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• Whoso list to hunt, I know where is an hind,
• But as for me, alas, I may no more.
• The vain travail hath wearied me so sore
• I am of them that farthest cometh behind.
• 5 Yet may I, by no means, my wearied mind
• Draw from the deer, but as she fleeth afore,
• Fainting I follow. I leave off therefore,
• Since in a net I seek to hold the wind.
• Who list her hunt, I put him out of doubt,
• 10 As well as I may spend his time in vain.
• And graven with diamonds in letters plain
• There is written, her fair neck round about,
• Noli me tangere, for Caesars I am,
• And wild for to hold, though I seem tame.

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• Footnotes
• list archaic for desires.
• hind (rhymes with kind) female deer
• travail hard work
• put him out of doubt assure him (that he).
• Noli me tangere Latin for touch me not

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Remember Reading Strategy! Read once for the
beauty and flow of the language! Read twice and
decide what you get versus not get
paraphrase! Read a third time to select
interesting word choices, figurative language
devices, rhetorical constructs, construction
choices, and mechanics.

• Write your ideas down!
• Create a theme statement!
• Create a pool of terms that you could use to
  discuss the sonnet!
• Think This contributes to the writers ability
  to convey or delivery the theme in this way
• Analysis Go beyond paraphrasing and
  identification!

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• 1. Which of the following images represents the
  woman the speaker wants to pursue?
• a. The vain travail
• b. diamonds in letters plain
• c. the deer
• d. my wearied mind
• 2. The tone of this sonnet is
• a. optimistic
• b. resigned
• c. neutral
• d. patient

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Petrarchan Sonnets

• Francesco Petraca, known in English as Francis
  Petrarch (1304-1374)
• Sonnets to Laura (woman of ideal virtue and
  beauty)
• Unrequited love sonnets speak of hopeless love
• Petrarchan Conceits A fanciful and elaborate
  figure of speech that makes a surprising
  connection between two seemingly dissimilar
  things (metaphysical conceit).
• Iambic pentameter
• Organized in two unequal parts Octave (first
  eight lines) and Sestet (final six lines)
• Turn or reversal occurs usually between the two
  shifts