The speakers within these two poems both take on a realistic view of love. In the poem “Whoso List to Hunt,” a woman is compared to a deer and hunting to the act of swooning a woman. The speaker explains how he knows where to hunt, but to obtain a deer is more difficult than one would believe. Most men go out with their guns, all prepared to bring something back, but because a deer is so swift and hard to catch, they rarely come back with anything. Within “Sonnet 30,” the speaker relates him and his love to fire and ice. With every flame he throws towards his lovers heart, it does the opposite of his intentions, growing more rigid and harder to melt. Despite being so similar, the way their ideas are expressed is different. The speaker in “Whoso
