"farewell , love"
the theme :-o renuciation of love
we call it anti-petrarchan
the speaker is a man who has renounced his love
the writer is thomas wyatt
Farewell, Love, and all thy laws for ever:
Thy baited hooks shall tangle me no more.
Senec and Plato call me from thy lore,
To perfect wealth my wit for to endeavou r.
he's saying goodbye love for ever so, he going to dismiss love from his life .he is rejecting the laws of love . he is dismissing all these laws from his life suffering to surrending to finding happiness in daying for the lover here he says that you have no authority now over me .he will not be controlled by his emotions he will be controlled by his reason.
In blind error when I did persever,
Thy sharp repulse, that pricketh aye so sore,
Hath taught me to set in trifles no store,
And scape forth, since liberty is lever*.
he is regretting the fact that he was controlled by his emotions and this is blind error.
he admits that insisted on his mistake by fllowing his love
Therefore farewell, go trouble younger hearts,
And in me claim no more authority;
With idle youth go use thy property,
And thereon spend thy many brittle darts.
it is the conclusion . he is saying goodbye to love . Love has no more a uauthority on him now . he asks love to go and use its hook to tangle to catch others younger hearts.
he asks love to go and use it's dart , its duty to attract young people
For, hitherto though I've lost my time,
Me lusteth no longer rotten boughs to climb.
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he has lost time,he has no desire to climb rotten boughs.he is going to perfect his wit.
we have imagery (hook) a hook in which a bait is hanged