LITERATURE QUESTIONS
MEDIEVAL LITERATURE AND CULTURE
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Why was the alliterative revival associated with nationalism and nostalgia?
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The stories of King Arthur made all English people nostalgic.
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Metrical poetry simply got boring.
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Alliterative poetry was much easier to write.
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Alliterative poetry was associated with a world before the French influence, a world before the Conquest.
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Explanation:
Detailed explanation-1: -Why is the alliterative revival important? The alliterative revival was an important period of time during which poets returned to alliterative verse, the meter in which the first English-language poems were written. It provides scholars with insights into how poetry was changing during the 13th-15th centuries.
Detailed explanation-2: -alliterative verse, early verse of the Germanic languages in which alliteration, the repetition of consonant sounds at the beginning of words or stressed syllables, is a basic structural principle rather than an occasional embellishment.
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