Sir Thomas Wyatt: A Renouncing of Love
" Farewell, Love, and all thy laws for ever ..... clime"
This sonnet is an example for the Italian type of sonnet. The poet bids farewell to his beloved whose love only causes him pain and suffering. He declares that he will not be tangled by her "Baited looks" any more. He also states that he is called by Seneca and Plato to educate his mind because this will help him escape his mistress' "sharp repulse". He, therefore, asks her to go and "trouble younger hearts" because he is now mature and will not waste his time on her anymore. He longs for his freedom and he no longer desires to climb "rotten boughs". Thus it seems he is only renouncing love because he is advancing in age but he spent years of climbing “rotten boughs" as he says in the last line which refers to his many past experiences of love.
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