I find no peace

Thomas Wyatt

Consider the title the readers understand that who is speaking is a first person who did not found peace. The text will express something which is personal.Consider the layout it is organised in to four stanzas: the first two are quatrain the other two are tersest. It follows the Petrarch model, 14 lines.

The speaking voice expressing an inner conflict that is express trough a list of oxymoron: in dead, the reader comes a cross a series of semantic opposition that range from words, verbs. The choice wants to convey the struggle of somebody who is looking for peace, serenity and tranquillity. In a few words, he looks for an emotional rest. After all the fights, he had cope with so far. The reader also understand that the speaking voice, who speaks in the first person singular and seven times in the space of four lines in addition his climaxing desperate mood resorts to hyperbole to make his feelings clear and evident: “ I fly by the wind “ (line 3), “Can I not arise ” exaggeration helps and adds to meaning and the reader totally perceives the speaking’s voice in inner situation and as a consequences feels involve and aphfully empathy for the subject.

In the second quatrain the poet repeats three times the possessive adjective at the first singular person: me. The poet shows his passivity, his inability to react: “hold me in prison”(line 5), “And holdeth me not yet ”(line 6).

In the first tersest is again repeated the personal pronoun "I", in every verse of the stanza. This shows to the reader that the poet is returned at the centre of the sonnet, now he is no longer a passive figure.

The last stanza there is, again, the figure of speech oxymoron like ” lough in all my pain” (line 12), “death and life” (line 13). This shows the reader the inner instability of the poet.

The narration reuses the personal pronoun “me” (line 12) to underline his return to the passivity in front of events.

In conclusion the sonnet “I find no peace” fully respects the title because all the text, especially the first and the last stanza, is based on the oxymoron which shows the instability of the poet and his suffering.