Whoso List to Hunt
For this essay I will talk about a poem I read in class that it is called “Whoso List to Hunt” by Sir Thomas Wyatt. This poem is about the unreachable love he has. He loves Anne Boyle, who is expressed in the poem as a deer or more specific as a hind, the hind being Caesar’s property. The problem is that Anne Boleyn is one of the wives of Henry VIII, who is represented as Caesar.
In this written piece of art the speaker warn “potential hunters” about this woman telling them that if they try to hunt her they spend their time in vain. Because she is impossible to catch her he tells us that trying to catch he is like catching wind with a net.
This poem describes attitudes and experiences still common in life today because it represents how we still “hunt” women. It is a problem sometimes that we see women as trophies or hinds. I consider this a problem because if we are seeing them as a prey, as a trophy we are not respecting them as human beings and sometimes we do not value women inn of. Nevertheless, we are still hunting women down, and sometimes it is nearly impossible to catch them. Well and when you do catch them, sometimes they can run away easy.
Wanting something that you cannot have it is one of the biggest drugs a man can have. That drug it is the most addicting thing that you can have. It is something that you cannot change, most of the times you want what you do not have and a lot of times when you do get it wou do not want it any more you want something else. But still at the moment moment you want that, you live happy in your missery.
In this poem the author write about another man’s wife, so I wonder, what would have the man thoughgt the moment he read this and realise it it was about his wife. I consider, since he was King Henry, he was really powerful so at the moment he could have sent some man to killed this poem’s author.
