This is probably only funny to those of you who know the poem, but what the hell.For the close-reading portion of my midterm, one of the poems my students could choose to analyze was Wyatt's "
Whoso list to hunt," the last four lines of which are:
And graven with diamonds in letters plain
There is written, her fair neck round about,
"Noli me tangere, for Caesar's I am,
And wild for to hold, though I seem tame."
One of my students wrote, "The last lines of the poem have French written in them to create a superior feeling. The deer belongs to 'Caesar,' and knows foreign languages, and is too good for the hunter."
