Monday, 30 March 2015

Thomas Wyatt's "They Flee From Me That Sometime Did Me Seek": Rhetorical Analysis

They flee from me that sometime did me seek,
With naked foot stalking in my chamber. '
This is a case of Metaphor .The women have been here compared to predatory animals through their prey is not ordinary food but sexual flood.

--It is also a case of Hyperbaton since the word order in ‘did me seek’ has been changed from the usual one .
'That sometime they put themselves in danger
To take bread at my hand; and now they range
Busily seeking with a continual change. ...................
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