Hello friends,
Today I would
like to share a poem which I studied during my graduation. The poem is “I Find
no Peace” by Sir Thomas Wyatt.
Sir Thomas Wyatt (1503 – 11 October 1542)[1] was a
16th-century English ambassador and lyrical poet. He is credited with
introducing the sonnet into English literature.
I find no
peace, and all my war is done.
I fear
and hope. I burn and freeze like ice.
I fly
above the wind, yet can I not arise;
And
nought I have, and all the world I season.
That
loseth nor locketh holdeth me in prison
And holdeth
me not—yet can I scape no wise—
Nor
letteth me live nor die at my device,
And yet
of death it giveth me occasion.
Without
eyen I see, and without tongue I plain.
I desire
to perish, and yet I ask health.
I love
another, and thus I hate myself.
I feed me
in sorrow and laugh in all my pain;
Likewise
displeaseth me both life and death,
And my
delight is causer of this strife.
In this poem
the narrator appears to be having a struggle. This struggle is not with any
person, but within himself. he has a conflict with himself because of the love for someone else. The narrator isn’t happy
with himself. he dislikes himself, but
yet he loves someone else.
He neither wants to live nor die but he wants to be
with the person he loves. He wants to die because he isn’t with her. The lover
is not in love with him.
“Love does not destroy me, and does
not loose me, wishes me not to live, but does not remove my bar”.
He explains the struggle he is going through
within. The struggles with the outer world are over but the war with himself is
never ending. This emotion holds him imprisoned, but he is still free.
There is
nothing that should be troubling him, but all he feels is troubled. His freedom
is what is holding him confined.
The poem is
full of paradox. The poet is in constant dilemma like Hamlet.
“To be, or not to be, that is the
question: Whether 'tis Nobler in the mind to suffer. The Slings and Arrows of
outrageous Fortune, Or to take Arms against a Sea of troubles, And by opposing
end them: to die, to sleep.”
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