I Find No Peace

Q Comment on ways which Wyatt present his experience of love in the following poem.

Wyatt presents his experience of love byi presenting love as a double edged sword has the
previous to provoke a range of complex feelings in a man.

Wyatt has presented experience of love by unveiling love as a cause of suffering. Love has
caused Wyatt extreme "pain" and caused him to contradict with himself. Wyatt had to fight
"war" yet he could not win over "peace". Here "war" might refer to his efforts to get his
beloved's affections but he he failed. Yet his obsession remains the same. This obsession
has caused him to "burn" and to "freeze". His passion "burns" in his chest but the lack of
response to his passion makes him "freeze like ice". This simile emphasises the feeling of
loneliness that Wyatt feels without his beloved. Wyatt highlights how love has bounded him
and "I scape no wise-" This cesura emphasis on the overwhelming power of love over Wyatt
that does not let the love sick poet to "arise". His fear of being rejected always pulls him back
whenever "I fly above the winds". His love has crushed him and made him feel "nought". He
has been entrapped by his own emotions that "holdeth me in prison". Here Wyatt adds a
biographical element as Wyatt was a diplomat in the court of Henry VII and fell in love with
his wife Anne Bolyne. This forbidden love let him "nor live nor die". This unfulfilled love has
compelled him to "desire to perish" as he thinks that death his now his only escape.

However Wyatt has presented love as the only thing that keeps him alive and he is
determined to "laugh in all my pains". Wyatt admist of "fear" has "hope". While he "desires to
perish" he too "ask for health". This antithesis emphasises on Wyatt's in face of adverse
circumstances. Wyatt has associated his despair with the thrill of unrequited love that makes
him feel free and as if "all the world I season". Though death seems to be the only escape
from this torturous obsession yet he "asks for health" as it isthe last chance he could strive to
get is love requited. He "see without eyes" her perfection and is blindly in love with her.
Even though he suffers misery he "plain without tongue". He wallows all the pain and
sufferings and infact "find delight" in this "strife". "My delight" is a metonomy for his beloved
who is the cause of this strife but still Wyatt calls her his delight and continue to enjoy his
pain.