Parallels Between Wyatt's Life & His Works

When reading the poetry selections by Sir Thomas Wyatt, I sensed a parallel between the events of his life, the time period in which he lived, and the messages of his poems. Wyatt wrote these poems during the Renaissance and talked about the roles of women, power, and corruption.
The two poems that caught my attention were "I find no peace" and "Forget not yet." When reading both of these sonnets, I was moved by the words and phrases and felt a powerful message. In the first sonnet, "I find no peace," the title is the perfect description of the narrator's feelings. The entire sonnet is rhetorical - the narrator feels like they are flying above the heavens in bliss, but then lies on the ground as though hitting rock bottom. It seems that the narrator is stuck in some type of lympo, never completely satisifed, yet never understanding exactly what he/she wants. According to the modern prose translation of this sonnet, the last line blames all of this strife on one particular person. This sonnet was written for that very person to feel the struggle that the narrator is feeling. My one question when reading this sonnet was: what is the cause of this conflict? Feeling imprisoned and the thought of love both crop up in the middle of the poem, yet I do not know if the narrator is actually in love with the person that causes them strife. I think that the narrator uses the illusion of a prison to further describe how trapped he/she truly feels.
The second sonnet, "Forget not yet," seems as though it was a plea to the audience to remember what the narrator has done for him/her. The first two lines read, "Forget not yet the tried intent of such a truth as I have meant." The word "truth" describes fidelity, showing that the narrator is referencing some sort of relationship between themselves and a loved one. The second stanza asks the person to remember the pursuit to win them over and obtain his/her love. The sonnet goes on to allude that the love between these two people was not always blissful since the narrator asks him/her to not forget the trials and the denials that they had to fight through in order to get what he/she wanted. The last stanza is a reminder to the narrator's love that he/she has always loved them regardless of the time that has passed and the problems that have been encountered. I can imagine that Wyatt wrote this sonnet with a woman in mind.

First Post

Hi everyone! This is my first post on my blog so hopefully this works. I created a blog once before for an education class I took freshman year. It has been a while since I've worked with Blogger and can tell that alot of the features have changed. I look forward to learning more about blogging and commenting on our readings throughout the semester.