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A 5 page paper which examines how love is depicted in Wyatt’s “The Long Love That My Heart Doth Harbor,” “Farewell, Love,” “Whoso List to Hunt,” “My Gallery,” “Divers Doth Use,” “Madam, Withouten Many Words,” “They Flee From Me,” “My Lute, Awake!,” Raleigh’s “The Nymph’s Reply to the Shepherd,” “The Lie,” “Farewell, False Love,” Marlowe’s “The Passionate Shepherd to His Love,” and “Prologue,” “The Knight’s Tale,” and “The Miller’s Tale” from Chaucer’s “The Canterbury Tales.” No additional sources are used.
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Awake!," Raleighs "The Nymphs Reply to the Shepherd," "The Lie," "Farewell, False Love," Marlowes "The Passionate Shepherd to His Love," and "Prologue," "The Knights Tale," and "The Millers Tale" from
Chaucers "The Canterbury Tales." No additional sources are used. TGlitlov.rtf Medieval Love, According to Wyatt, Raleigh, Marlowe and Chaucer by Tracy Gregory, October 2001 VISIT
/aftersale.htm -- properly! Long ago and far away, back in the days of Medieval Europe, when men werent off somewhere
fighting for honor and territory, they were at home, more often than not, vying for the attentions of beautiful damsels. These dashing figures were not only fighters, but also
passionate lovers, as the poems from this era indicate. Most of these poets were not writers by trade, but were truly Renaissance men, who led lives as adventurous as
the heroes they wrote about. These passionate men were poets of the heart, and therefore, it comes as no surprise that a frequent and favorite topic was love.
As the works of Thomas Wyatt, Walter Raleigh, Christopher Marlowe and Geoffrey Chaucer reveal, love is a complicated proposition, and inspires a wide range of emotions. Sir Thomas Wyatt, the
Elder (1503-1542), was a pioneer of the English sonnet, which was a variation of the romantic prose structure devised by Italian poet Petrarch (Abrams 495). Petrarchs sonnets usually featured
tales of unrequited love, and were arranged in couplets. Wyatts poems also lamented the pains of love, but his structure was not completely based on Petrarch, but incorporated other
complex Italian rhyme schemes as well (Abrams 495). In his poem, "The Long Love That My Heart Doth Harbor," the narrator feels compelled to hide his love: "The long
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