LITERATURE QUESTIONS
MEDIEVAL LITERATURE AND CULTURE
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“The Dream of the Rood”
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“The Wanderer”
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“The Seafarer”
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“Sir Gawain and the Green Knight”
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Detailed explanation-1: -A striking example of alliteration in the text, the initial “S” sound is repeated in eight words in the sentence: “spurred, ” “steed, ” “spurs, ” “sprang, ” “so, ” “swiftly, ” “stone, ” and “struck.” The rapid, repetitive alliteration drives the sentence, suggesting Gawain’s great speed in departing.
Detailed explanation-2: -Major works of the Revival include William Langland’s Piers Plowman, the Alliterative Morte Arthure, and the works of the Gawain Poet: Pearl, Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, Cleanness, and Patience.
Detailed explanation-3: -The alliterative poem Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, likely written in the mid to late fourteenth century, survives in a late-fourteenth-century manuscript with three other poems-Pearl, Purity, and Patience-by the same author.