What do the speakers have in common in the sonnets "Whoso List to Hunt" by Sir Thomas Wyatt and "Sonnet 30" by Edmund Spenser? How are they different? Consider the focus of the speaker in each work.

In Sir Thomas's Sonnet, the speaker was an old hunter who has grown tired of hunting and finds it useless. He gives details on a deer he knows of and knows where to find it. He also explains how he also find it useless to hunt the deer because it is useless.

In Edmund's Sonnet, the speaker was a man who describes himself as fire and great heat. He is in love with a woman whom he describe as ice and coldness. Normally, ice is melted and effected by fire, but in the sonnet, Edmund describes the way his fire and her ice does not effect.

annyksl annyksl · Answer 2 · 2021-12-20T14:16:53+01:00

The similarity between the speakers is that both feel useless to the activities they do or that they were doing.

We can arrive at this answer because:

"Whoso List to Hunt," shows a hunter who feels useless.

He claims that hunting is an activity without relevance and result because it is useless.
He feels tired because he tried to hunt a deer and failed, realizing that he is useless.
"Sonnet 30," shows a speaker who feels useless in winning a woman.
That's because this woman is unaffected by anything he does.
The speaker refers to a fire that cannot burn the woman he loves.

With this, we can see that the speakers are similar in that they are not able to reach their goals.

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