Bewoulf

A) This poem is of a lover who reminisces of the old days when he had several relationships with women and of the day when a certain woman came along that changed everything. Now he has been left alone by all his mistresses; likely, because they no longer find him attractive. “They flee from me that sometime did me seek, with naked foot stalking in my chamber.” The speaker first recalls how wild his life was with all those when before he met that one woman in particular. “I have seen them gentle tame and meek that now are wild and do not remember that sometime they put themselves in danger to take bread at my hand” “but once in special, in thin array after a pleasant guise, when her loose gown from her shoulders did fall, and she me caught in her arms long and small” However, it had been a lie, for just as she had appeared in his life she also disappeared. The speaker says that he had deserved it, for his good manners, she had been unfaithful to him. “But since that I so kindly am served, I would fain know what she hath deserved “At the end he wonders what has happened to this certain woman. He may hope that karma has caught with her and she has been paid with something just as bad or worse. This petrarchan sonnet love seems to be transient, just as it comes it goes, and regardless of how well mannered a person may be in the relationship.

B) “They flee from me” compares to a “Don Juan” who is a lover but yet suffered from a rejection by this women. They both face rejection. The poem is narrated in first person point of view. They both live in a male dominated society. The men held all of the power. Understanding a woman’s refusal of his attention was difficult for both to understand. Men were married but usually had multiple affairs or a mistress. Women also had affairs inside the confines of marriage. Often, the women suffered for their sexual assignations with their heads or by abandonment by their husbands. For the most part, although, love is noticeably absent from the poem and movie, and it's this absence that makes it all the more relevant. It seems like both of our guys loved sex, not women, and maybe that's the source of all their problems.

C) The language of this poem begins with an unclear; threatening statement that describes an unidentified group that at one time hunted the speaker out but now races away from his presence. Wyatt constructs a metaphor, interpreting this unidentified group as animals that “take bread at my hand” Further examination it becomes clear that the speaker is not actually talking about wildlife, but rather he is characterizing past relationships with women. When thought of in relation to other portions of the poem, it becomes obvious that the words “naked foot” is not referring to a paw, but the skin of a bare human foot. Then it continues with this wildlife metaphor. When these women are with

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