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Comparing Wyatts The Long Love That in My purview Doth cling to and Donnes The Flea Every century has its own poetry poetry has its own personality and aspects, especially sleep with poems. In the sixteenth century, poems about live were more about the court than the bonkr. In the next century (the seventeenth), the poems of love were more about courting the lover. An author from the sixteenth century, Sir Thomas Wyatt the Elder, is well know for his lyrics pertaining to love. An author from the seventeenth century is John Donne, who is most famous for his love-poetry. When comparing these two authors, the theme of love is very apparently different. Sir Thomas Wyatt the Elders love poems, such as The Long Love That in My Thought Doth Harbor, bear an imprint of a strongly individual personality. But the personality is a very different one from John Donnes. 1 One of John Donnes lyrics, The Flea, is an exemplary of the seventeenth centurys love poems that have a them e that focuses on the lover. In the sixteenth century, the poems were obviously not written for the lover, but for the court. The poem The Long Love That in My Thought Doth Harbor expresses this loony toons through its imagery of a battle. Not many great deal would compare their love to a battle, because if they did, it probably would not be a true love. Wyatts conceit is a siege (battle), and he concentrates on the theme that the lover suffers in this poem. Wyatts poems are not typical love poems most people would expect desire, true love winning in t... ...found in the sixteenth century. The seventeenth century is more open to the idea of a physical love as well as a spiritual love. The sixteenth century focuses on love in the court rather than the lovers. The theme of love in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries is treated the same in some regards and differently in others. On the whole, Donne compares love to what he feels, whereas Wyatt compares love to a bat tle. Poems about love have drastically changed throughout the centuries. Love poems have evolved, as have people. But as the poem The Long Love That in My Thought Doth Harbor cites, For good is the life ending faithfully. Its all worth it in the end. It is better to have loved and lost, than to have never loved at all.