Early English Lyric poetry as a medium of the poet expressing himself.

Poets have used their gifts to many ends. To explore emotions, to celebrate nature, to praise God, to celebrate in rhyme, to argue and judge, to seduce, to attack, and as a means of self-presentation in the hierarchical structure of the court in sixteenth century England, by the use of witty lyrics and twofold meanings. Sir Thomas Wyatt and Sir Philip Sidney were two poets who spanned the Henry VIII and Elizabethan era. They used their poetry with the hope of bringing attention to themselves in their society.
Before undertaking a discussion on the poetry of the poets themselves, we should…