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Cadmens hymn Plot o He couldn’t sing o Then he had a dream o Then he could sing after being visited by angel First religious poem written in English Kenning- you make up words in order to complete a rhyme or to keep meter of the poem alive The wander Plot o It’s about a wanderer o He is sad cause he is separated from his people o Poem begins and ends with someone other than the wonderer which leads to speculation if they were originally written by someone else to add more religon Ubi sunt o “Where are” a series of questions of rhetorical questions o poetic device Dream of the rood Plot o The crucifixion of Jesus from the point of view of the cross. o It also features super warrior implications o Begins with a speaker who is not Christian and converts
Conversion Poem o A poem that testaments someone’s conversion Warrior Jesus o They basically say people worship jesus because he is the one who protects his people o They compared a kings virtues of protection to what Jesus did. Chaucer Invented Iambic pentameter A lot Chaucer writings talk about real life A lot about middle class that is rising in medieval society Canterbury Tales o Wanted to write about all the characters in societs Prologue o Talks about how you have an unreliable narrator o Harry bailey Sets up the competition of telling stories while passing time Millers Tale o Fabliau Has middle and lower class characters Have a farfetched plot line Usually very crude
Controls her husband in different ways o Prologue is way longer then the tale. This means she was an important character to Chaucer. o Two reasons to care about it Maistrye : She controls her husbands in various ways Getting them to believe she cheated or they cheated Pretends to die No blisse oblige Nobility obliges Idea that he is suppose to protect the court by being honorable and respectable. Sir Gawain and the green knight Romance o Follows typically plot o Starts with hero and is given a trial o A problem arises which calls him to an adventure to gain deeper knowledge of himself Omniscient narrator o He manipulates characters to prove a point. Vernacular o The language spoke back then Poem of Psychological realism o If he would’ve told the truth then he would have escaped unharmed.
Franchise o Generosity of the soul o A privilege or right granted to a specific person. Girdle and hunting o The hunting scenes mimic the scenes of wife flirting o The animals have huge significance Girdle o Gets it to protect himself from all harm o If the Gawain gives the girdle back then he wouldn’t have been harmed by Lord Birsalack o Point is he uses the girdle as protection instead of god and telling the truth. o Reveals the irony that he is human after flinching. Margery Kemp First autobiography in English. Was about a women She had a priest write because she was allegedly literate She had thirteen children Self righteous Relates everything to Jesus. The Second Sheppard’s play Tropes o Mass was in Latin and people didn’t understand the play
They line scheme can vary Refrain : Last line of each stanza is a repeated Characteristics o Grouchy and jaded Sir Philip Sydney Wrote astro, phil, and stella Typical sonnet because it’s about how a guy who loves a girl who he can’t get because they are typically married. Edmund Spencer Epithalamion o Its written by a poet who writes the poem for a couple that is getting married and is read during the wedding Characteristics o He wrote it himself o His wedding takes place on the summer solstice longest day of the year o Has a refrain until line 314 until day becomes night and the refrain changes o It has to do with anticipation of sleeping with his wife. Sonnets In the 1590’s everyone wanted to write sonnets Sonnet Cycles: a complication of sonnets o They were dedicated to one woman o Had a simple plot Man fell in love with a women at first site
Tries to gain favor generally unsuccessful She usually dies He continues to write sonnets Written in iambic pentameter 16 lines broken in to two stanzas Octave: first 8 lines are the problem Sestat: last 8 are the solution Shakespearean Sonnets Thomas Thorpe: published the sonnets despite Shakespeare not neccisarily wanting him too. It may autobiographical-not known Shakespeare wrote them as a favor for a noble woman so that her son would get married They were addressed to the son Sonnets 1- o Are procreation sonnets written to 1- o are written to convince the boy to marry 127- o both the poet and the boy fall in love the dark lady she falls in the boy, the poet falls in love with her, she is married, she is rejected
