Here is your short summary of the Poem “Is It Possible” by Sir Thomas Wyatt:
The poem is a portrayal of the feelings of a lover who felt that his lover’s love wasn’t as pure and deep for him as he did love her. He begins the poem with rhetorical questions trying to understand how it could be that someone he loved to the bottom of his heart could give up his love so soon. He compares his love with a high debate that began late but ended soon. He thinks that his feelings for his love were so intense and thus is not able to accept that it didn’t turn back equally from her side.
Again he refers to the feeling of admiration between them as cruel intent which was so hasty and ended up without giving the poet a moment to digest it. He still wonders and is amazed that how could the feelings of love transform into hate and keep his lover in rest, when he is so stunned by the sudden drift in her feelings. The way he questions the nature of his lover, he seems deeply hurt by the way she has reciprocated to her love.
He tries to understand the thoughts that are going inside his lover’s mind. He is astounded to see that her feelings have changed so suddenly as if it were weather and wind. He has a sense of confusion in assimilating the fact that it’s a very different and changing mind that resided in her heart. It makes him feel bewildered as to how could kind and soft heart carry a mind inside that never gave due respect to his feelings of love.
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The poet’s feeling of helplessness comes alive as he finds the love as an uncanny thing which he could not apprehend well. He considers the possibility of spying an eye on the love so as to know it chances of survival.
The feeling of lost love has given him a feeling of handicap where he believes that if there was some way that he could know that his love would land him into such a painful state, he should have stepped back in time. But he is only lost in remorse over his hurtful experience in love. His beloved failed to share feelings of love with him and that has broken his heart.
After questioning through the poem as to how could his lover reject his love, the poet finally comes out of the wondering thoughts. He is trying to come to terms with the reality which is that he has lost his love and there is no way to get it back now. He therefore claims that it is possible for love to turn hostile.
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It is possible that the feelings of love to transform into hatred after they have reached a peak. He admits that it is quite possible that love doesn’t show up as you expect and want it to.
In the concluding paragraph, he gets into a state of confinement and consolation saying that all is possible. He takes the responsibility of judging his love wrong and that it is important to trust someone before loving them. It takes a license for a man to marry a woman and the love dies as soon as the license is over.
Therefore, one should not be swayed by the feelings of heart and be very cautious before loving someone.