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2. EPIGRAM ENGRAVED ON THE COLLAR OF A DOG (Alexander POPE) (1688-1744)

The title introduces the reader to what he7she is going to read, it has The same length as the poem itself.

The ‘‘I’’ refers to His Highness and ‘‘you’’ refers to the reader. ‘‘I’’ In the poem refers to the author in this case is Alexander Pope.

What is given to Hid Highness is the collar of a dog or the dog itself.

Kew is a place of England.

This poem was written in 1738. And the rhythm is Tetrameter on both Lines. Both line form a couplet.

WHOSO LIST TO HUNT (SIR THOMAS WYATT) (1503-1542)

It is a sonnet written by Sir Thomas Wyatt who introduced the sonnet in England.

The genre is an English sonnet written during the Renaissance Period.

The I voice of this poem is the hunter.

Addressee: The hunter is telling others how impossible it is to ‘hunt’ This girl.

The tone of this poem is disappointment since the hunter can’t take this Girl to his bed.

Other relevant features: The name of Caesar (line 13) refers to King Henry VII. Some scholay have claimed that the woman that appears in this poem Is Anne Boleyn who was Henry VII’s wife.

The speaker (Wyatt in this case) was frustrated and moved away from a Relationship due to the presence of a stronger male presence ( The King).

Is an Iambic Pentameter.

The couplet (EE) which we can see in this sonnet (lines 13-14) was Wyatt Main contribution to the English sonnet. The lines above the couplet are Quatrains (ABBAABBACDDC)

Structure:

1 Stanza: The lover is trying to abandon the hunt

2 Stanza: The hunter cannot think about other thing but his deer.

3 Stanza: He warn other ‘hunters’ who wish to hunt.