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My Poem
September 1, 2012
9:29 am
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Rosie
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I wasn’t quite sure where to post this, so I thought I would post it here. Sorry if its in the wrong place! Okay so, a while back I wrote this poem. I know its not a masterpiece but I’m only 14 🙂 Its about the Tower of London, and the first line is inspiration from Thomas Wyatt, it was in The Tudors. I’m not sure who’s point of view it could be from, maybe Cromwell or the Earl of Surrey?

I’m really nervous about posting it, but here goes Embarassed

These bloody days have just about broken my heart
The loathing, the hatred, knowing I am apart
Day by day the detest overwhelms me
Repulses me to the very burrow of my plea

Good people! Good people! I hear them cry
Tears falling until there visage is dry
Some walk with noble heads too high
To hide their fret it will be down at nigh

Near, so near, to the hour of my time,
Hearing the disorder so close to my mind
God bless you, I hear the confessor say
Crossing me, reminding me this was the day

The last walk, catching a glimpse of the church
Who knew this was the place I took my daily lurk?
Climbing the scaffold reaching my end
Listening to the jeers that want to offend

Wearily placing my head on the block
What had I done to earn such a mock?
The axe falling again and again upon my neck
End will you not? My body, the fallen wreck.

These bloody days have just about broken my heart
The loathing, the hatred, knowing I am apart
Day by day the detest overwhelms me
Repulses me to the very burrow of my plea

September 1, 2012
11:42 am
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Nice work, Rosie, I really liked that.
No need to feel nervous about posting anything on here, we don’t bite! You’ll find we post many things on here, from very serious topics concerning Anne and/or the times she lived in, to total trivia or items for just plain old fun (we do like a laugh now and again!). So feel free to post want you want and let us enjoy your thoughts regarding Anne or anything Tudor. Trust me, if it’s anything like your poem then we’ll all enjoy sharing your thoughts, theorems and ideas. Well done.Smile

September 2, 2012
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How kind. Thank you very much Smile

September 2, 2012
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Great poem, Rosie. I like it! I feel you captured something of the terror and fear of the Tower. I also like your use of Thomas Wyatt.

"By daily proof you shall find me to be to you both loving and kind" Anne Boleyn

September 2, 2012
4:27 pm
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Thank you! Yes, Thomas Wyatt is one of my favourite poets, ‘Noil me tangre, for Caeser’s I am’ has to be one of my favourite lines.

September 2, 2012
10:44 pm
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I rather think that when Thomas Wyatt wrote this poem he was perhaps writing from the perspective of Anne.
Remember Wyatt was in love with Anne and I don’t think he ever stopped loving her even after her death. But then equally well this poem could refer to both Cromwell and Surrey. These Bloody days have broken my heart could refer to all the freinds they had that had died a horrible death at Henry’s hands.. In Surrey’s case he had lost 3 of his own kin at Henry’s orders and he was to become the 4th of the Norfolk’s clan to die at Henry’s order.
Wyatt was a gifted poet and I think at times even his skill rivaled Henry and that was something Henry didn’t like. In short he was jealous of Wyatt, which was perhaps part of the reason why Henry imprisoned him along with Anne, so that he could get rid of Anne and all those who loved her in one foul swoop it was a case if I can’t have her then no one else will where Henry was concerned.
Poor Wyatt I think his heart did break when Anne was murdered because I don’t think he was ever the same after her death.

Semper Fidelis, quod sum quod

September 3, 2012
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The poem is about the murders of the five men. Wyatt witnessed the deaths from his rooms in the Tower. It was telling his bitterness at court life and the power it gave, which he was unable to turn his back on despite his hatred for the savage nature of it. He recognised his own hypocrisy.

RosieMay, your poem is great. You definitely have a talent which you should nurture.

September 3, 2012
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Well done Rosie. Don’t be nervous about posting things here, everyone loves to share. Keep it up.

Wyatt’s Bell Tower poem always gets me, it gives me chills.

September 3, 2012
4:09 pm
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Ah thank you everyone 🙂

September 3, 2012
7:47 pm
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What a lovely poem, Rosie. You have captured the feelings of one who faced death at the Tower.

September 4, 2012
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Terrific writing, Rosie. Really evocative. I’d love to read more if you feel like posting more poetry some time.

September 4, 2012
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This is another one of Wyatt’s Poems..
They flee from me that sometime did me seek,
With naked foot stalking in my chamber
I have seen them gentle, tame, and meek
That are now wild and do not remember
That sometime they put themselves in danger
To take bread at my hand; and now they range
busily seeking in continue change.

Thanks be to fortune, it hath been otherwise
Twenty time otherwise; but once especial,
In thin array, after a pleasant guise,
When her loose gown did from her shoulders fall,
And she me caught in her arm long and small,
and Therewithall so sweetly kiss,
And softly said, “Dear heart, how like you this?”

It was no dream, for I lay broad awaking.
But all is turned now through my gentleness
Into a strange fashion of forsaking,
And I have leave to go of her goodness,
And she also to used new fangleness.
But since that I unkindly so am served,
“How like you this,” what hath she now deserved?

I don’t think there can be any doubt on who he is describing here. Like I said in my previous post he was in love with Anne, and although she was fond of him she would never see him as anything more than a freind.

Semper Fidelis, quod sum quod

September 4, 2012
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By the way Rosie there is no need to be nervous about posting anything. We aren’t here to judge you.
We enjoy reading enjoy each other’s postings and have a bit of fun along the way too..

Semper Fidelis, quod sum quod

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