"Who List his Wealth and Ease Retain"

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This paper looks at a poem of renaissance poet Sir Thomas Wyatt, "Who List his Wealth and Ease Retain" and discusses the euphemisms and meanings, the use of his language and brings forth possible theories as to the reasoning of his writing at such an unsteady political time in England.

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"Sir Thomas Wyatt, the Elder's poem Who list his wealth and ease retain was written at a time when the political regime of England sat on a tenuous grip the only person that mattered in politics was the King, namely King Henry Tudor the eighth. Wyatt's poem is split into five sections, the first sets the seen that a man who knows and lists his wealth will surely retain it as long as he himself is knowledgeable of it yet any who return too quickly to their treasures are disapproved of Wyatt finishes this verse as with the others with a Latin phrase circa Regna tonat which translated means "It thunders through the realms.""

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