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Forget Intent Of A Truth I Meant; Essay

¶ … Forget intent of a truth I meant; My great travail gladly spent, Forget . Forget began the weary life ye, whan the suit, service,; Forget . Forget not Yet the Tried Intent -- poem analysis

Sir Thomas Wyat's poem "Forget not Yet the Tried Intent" is written in the form of five quatrains and it has a rhyming tercet with the fourth verse of each stanza being repeated as a refrain throughout the poem. The poet apparently uses this poem with the purpose of having audiences acknowledge his efforts to address topics such as truth and the meaning of life. He proceeds with claiming that he is solely responsible for his struggle to reach a conclusion that would benefit the world as a whole and thus attempts to influence...

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Moreover, the poet wants his listeners to understand that life has become a formal concept in which "the suit, the service" dominate people's lives without anyone being able to tell where these concepts originate from and why they continue to play an important role in society as a whole. The poet wanted to emphasize that even with the fact that there is no rational explanation behind a series of ideas that the social order promotes, people continue to support these respective concepts and blindly follow rules that they…

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