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 …

…that highlights unrequited love also conveys in the language of Petrachanism. On the latent level both of these poets uses their poems as political allegories. Poetry was part of a deliberate attempt to advance a new social order; it was not merely a literary fashion. In many cases the poet was the spokesman of the court. He inserted himself into an order so that he could hopefully establish his own place within the social discourse.