Is Wyatt’s “Whoso List to Hunt” unique enough to be considered an original poem? Does it plagiarize all or part of Petrarch’s Rime 190? Or does it attempt to translate Petrarch’s Rime 190 into English?
How are women and women's bodies portrayed in Wyatt's "Whoso List to Hunt"? One Petrarchan scholar wrote that Petrarch's poems were no more than "a great fiction to compensate for a real state of affairs in which it was a man's world and a violent one at that." Do you consider this fiction an adequate compensation? To what extent do you think this fiction served to alleviate or aggravate the real state of affairs? |