Who is the author of the line, 'I find no peace and all my war is done; I fear and hope, I burn and freeze like ice?
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A.
Sir Thomas Wyatt
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B.
Earl of Surrey
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C.
Sir Philip Sidney
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D.
Edmund Spenser
Correct Answer:
A. Sir Thomas Wyatt
Explanation:
The correct answer is Sir Thomas Wyatt. This line opens his sonnet titled I Find No Peace, which is an English translation and adaptation of Petrarch's Sonnet 134. In the poem, Wyatt uses a series of oxymorons and paradoxes, such as burning and freezing simultaneously, to illustrate the intense emotional turmoil and contradictory feelings caused by unrequited love. While other poets like the Earl of Surrey and Edmund Spenser were also influential sonneteers of the era, this specific set of antithetical statements is a hallmark of Wyatt's Petrarchan imitation.
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