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The story of the tree that was made into the crucifix of Jesus Christ. Throughout the poem, the cross is personified and tells the story of the crucifixion of Jesus.
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Dream of the Rood
Caedmon |
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The sea and the desire for adventure appeals to him more than civilization: loneliness, cold, fate.
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The Seafarer
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A wanderer is exiled from his homeland, so he wanders looking for a home and a master to serve; loneliness.
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The Wanderer
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Uther Pendragon falls in love with Igraine, he spends a night with her. Arthur grows up, goes to war with the Saxons, and it ends with his coronation.
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History of the Kings of Britain
Sir Geoffrey of Monmouth |
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Uther falls in love with Igraine, and Arthur is born. He is taken by Merlin, and fostered by Sir Ector and Kay. Arthur unknowingly sleeps with Morgan le Fay, and Mordred is born. The Lady of the Lake gives him Excalibur and scabbard, and all the children are sent to die.
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Morte d'Arthur I
Sir Thomas Malory |
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Lancelot is enchanted by the four queens. Lord Turquine tries to take revenge on Lancelot for killing his brother. Lancelot rescues Kay and killes some people.
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Morte d'Arthur VI
Sir Thomas Malory |
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Sir Agravaine and Mordred plot against Lancelot and Guenevere. He kills Agravaine and Guenevere is sentenced to death, but she is rescued. They move to France. Gawaine and him fight, and he has this weird power.
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Morte d'Arthur XX
Sir Thomas Malory |
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Mordred tries to marry Guenevere. Gawaine sends a letter to Lancelot. Arthur kills Mordred. Arthur tells Beivere to return Excalibur to the lake. Sir Constantine becomes a king.
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Morte d'Arthur XXI
Sir Thomas Malory |
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Gawaine calls for beginning to grail quest, Galahad is introduced quest. Bohort and Percival are true. Lancelot fails. The grail is on a ship, Galahad becomes king.
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Quest of the Sangreal
Thomas Bulfinch |
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This quote, especially the last sentence tells that dignity comes from virtues alone and not from the social class/economic status of a person. This theme is played out numerously in Gentilesse-truth and dignity cannot be inherited like material possessions, but rather be worked for.
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Gentleness
Chaucer |
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Taking as his theme Christ's words to his disciples, "And ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free," Chaucer plays on the triple meaning that the Middle English word trouthe seems to have had for him: the religious truth of Christianity, the moral virtue of integrty, and the philosophical idea of reality. By maintaining one's faith and integrity, one rises superior to the ranks of this world and comes to know reality.
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Truth
Chaucer |
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A knight rapes a woman. The old woman tells the knight that all woman want is sovereignty in a marriage. The old woman gives the knight the choice of being faithful and ugly or being beautiful and unfaithful. He lets her decide and she is both beautiful and faithful.
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The Wife of Bath's Tale
Chaucer |
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Arveragus wants to marry Dorigen and pledges to serve her as a knight. They are equal in the marriage. Aurelius fals in love with her and she unknowingly makes a promise. Aurelius is surprised by the honesty of Dorigen and the virtue of her husband. He frees her.
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The Franklin's Tale
Chaucer |
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Green knight appears in King Arthur's court, challenged Gawaine to hit him with an axe, but he must be hit in return. The knight survives. Gawaine sees him in a year, the knight spares him, and teaches him about keeping his word
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Sir Gawaine and the Green Knight
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Revenge is pointless and bad, because law is better, but the two cannot coexist. Revenge brings you down to the other person's level, so just forget about it so you can heal. Only take revene when there is no law to punish the offense.
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On Revenge
Francis Bacon |
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The story of the tree that was made into the crucifix of Jesus Christ. Throughout the poem, the cross is personified and tells the story of the crucifixion of Jesus.
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Dream of the Rood
Caedmon |
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The sea and the desire for adventure appeals to him more than civilization: loneliness, cold, fate.
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The Seafarer
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A wanderer is exiled from his homeland, so he wanders looking for a home and a master to serve; loneliness.
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The Wanderer
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Uther Pendragon falls in love with Igraine, he spends a night with her. Arthur grows up, goes to war with the Saxons, and it ends with his coronation.
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History of the Kings of Britain
Sir Geoffrey of Monmouth |
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Uther falls in love with Igraine, and Arthur is born. He is taken by Merlin, and fostered by Sir Ector and Kay. Arthur unknowingly sleeps with Morgan le Fay, and Mordred is born. The Lady of the Lake gives him Excalibur and scabbard, and all the children are sent to die.
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Morte d'Arthur I
Sir Thomas Malory |
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Lancelot is enchanted by the four queens. Lord Turquine tries to take revenge on Lancelot for killing his brother. Lancelot rescues Kay and killes some people.
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Morte d'Arthur VI
Sir Thomas Malory |
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Sir Agravaine and Mordred plot against Lancelot and Guenevere. He kills Agravaine and Guenevere is sentenced to death, but she is rescued. They move to France. Gawaine and him fight, and he has this weird power.
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Morte d'Arthur XX
Sir Thomas Malory |
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Mordred tries to marry Guenevere. Gawaine sends a letter to Lancelot. Arthur kills Mordred. Arthur tells Beivere to return Excalibur to the lake. Sir Constantine becomes a king.
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Morte d'Arthur XXI
Sir Thomas Malory |
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Gawaine calls for beginning to grail quest, Galahad is introduced quest. Bohort and Percival are true. Lancelot fails. The grail is on a ship, Galahad becomes king.
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Quest of the Sangreal
Thomas Bulfinch |
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This quote, especially the last sentence tells that dignity comes from virtues alone and not from the social class/economic status of a person. This theme is played out numerously in Gentilesse-truth and dignity cannot be inherited like material possessions, but rather be worked for.
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Gentleness
Chaucer |
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Taking as his theme Christ's words to his disciples, "And ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free," Chaucer plays on the triple meaning that the Middle English word trouthe seems to have had for him: the religious truth of Christianity, the moral virtue of integrty, and the philosophical idea of reality. By maintaining one's faith and integrity, one rises superior to the ranks of this world and comes to know reality.
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Truth
Chaucer |
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A knight rapes a woman. The old woman tells the knight that all woman want is sovereignty in a marriage. The old woman gives the knight the choice of being faithful and ugly or being beautiful and unfaithful. He lets her decide and she is both beautiful and faithful.
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The Wife of Bath's Tale
Chaucer |
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Arveragus wants to marry Dorigen and pledges to serve her as a knight. They are equal in the marriage. Aurelius fals in love with her and she unknowingly makes a promise. Aurelius is surprised by the honesty of Dorigen and the virtue of her husband. He frees her.
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The Franklin's Tale
Chaucer |
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Green knight appears in King Arthur's court, challenged Gawaine to hit him with an axe, but he must be hit in return. The knight survives. Gawaine sees him in a year, the knight spares him, and teaches him about keeping his word
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Sir Gawaine and the Green Knight
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Revenge is pointless and bad, because law is better, but the two cannot coexist. Revenge brings you down to the other person's level, so just forget about it so you can heal. Only take revenge when there is no law to punish the offense.
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On Revenge
Francis Bacon |
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This is a Protestant view on Hamlet's reaction to his father's ghost. Many others think they are seeing a ghost when they're simply hallucinating, during a period of melancholy or lack of sleep. Souls don't die, but they don't stay on Earth - they go to heaven or hell. But there are good angels and evil angels.
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Of Ghosts and Spirits
Lewes Lavater |
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Melancholy makes a person of slow wit and reaction, dulls their senses, and makes them almost stupid. Other melancholy men are still witty, and they contemplate themselves a lot and become doubtful and untrusting.
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A Treatise of Melancholy
Timothy Bright |
Melancholy Marvell.
The opposite of melancholy is bright. |
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King Hamlet comes back and tells his son, Hamlet, to avenge his son. Themes include: revenge, melancholy.
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Hamlet
Shakespeare |
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Poet can't write poetry comparable to love's beauty.
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Sonnet 18
Petrarch |
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Poet wanders through desert glade trying to conceal his woe, but love follows him.
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Sonnet 28
Petrarch |
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Man is pursuing the same girl everyone else is puruing, no one is able to capture the girl and attempts to capture her all go to vain, he tries not to follow her but gets sucked in and pursues her.
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Whoso List to Hunt
Sir Thomas Wyatt |
Everyone is HUNTING this woman.
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Man is talking to a woman trying to convince her not to break up with him, he finally breaks up with her and treats it as a kind act that she has broken up with him.
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Divers Doth Use
Sir Thomas Wyatt |
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Description of leaves, lily hands, sacred brook and bleeding look.
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Sonnet 1
Edmund Spenser |
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Poet focuses on only her beauty.
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Sonnet 35
Edmund Spenser |
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Poet writes love's name on the sand, washes away; What's mortal can't be immortalized, but in heaven.
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Sonnet 75
Spenser |
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Poet asks moon what celestial love is like.
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Sonnet 31
Sir Phillip Sidney |
SI-lestial. SI looks like what number...
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Poet wants to sleep to forget about Stella.
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Sonnet 39
Sir Phillip Sidney |
STella SLeep...SI----
Stella is 39... |
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Woman disappointed over unrequited love.
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Sonnet 29
Shakespeare |
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The inadequacy of poetry during his time.
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Sonnet 106
Shakespeare |
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Love like the North Star, firm and constant and lasting.
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Sonnet 116
Shakespeare |
The North Star is 116 years old.
Shakespeare was a star. |
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Woman's unsightly appearance described, but good nature shines through.
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Sonnet 130
Shakespeare |
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Pastoral poem man writes to his fantastic lover, a nymph, asking her to come to him and enjoy the simple joys of country life.
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The Passionate Shepherd to His Love
Christopher Marlowe |
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Woman berates the passionate shepherd, rejecting his offerings as unrealistic and impossible.
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The Nymph's Reply to the Shepherd
Sir Walter Raleigh |
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A poem to a woman who is so beautiful that she is a bait, to which creatures would willingly get caught.
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Bait
John Donne |
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Trying to persuade a woman into going to bd with him, but using a flea metaphor.
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Flea
John Donne |
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Lovers will die but their love will live on through the poem forever.
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The Canonization
John Donne |
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Not a poem, but an essay on for whom the bell tolls, which is everyone. But it concludes the work by concluding since death is nearing every day, he puts himself into God, his only security.
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Meditation 17
John Donne |
MEDITATING on his death.
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Explains why a man is leaving a woman. Fake death, he'll come back like the sun, and we learn from mistakes. You can't love me because you're hurting me by crying, don't think ill of me or else I'll die.
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Song
John Donne |
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We're splitting up, but let's not talk about it, our love is so strong that we can be apart and still be together, like a compass.
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A Valediction: Forbidding Mourning
John Donne |
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Death is weak. It is going to die. Paradox.
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Holy Sonnet 10
John Donne |
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A tribute to his dead 7 year old son. He says that he should not be mourning, but be envious that his sone escaped the wrath of the world. Also, liking versus loving. He loved him too much.
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On My First Son
Ben Jonson |
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The poem starts off saying that he will drink to her if she would look at him. He would drink the kiss in a cup and it i worth more to him than Jupiter. He sent her a wreath, and she sends it back. He loves it because it smells like her now.
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Song: To Celia
Ben Jonson |
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He says that this lady is very made up as if she is going to a ball. "All is not sweet, all is not sound". He still lusts for her.
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Still to be Neat
Ben Jonson |
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He speaks about how the world does not have enough time and how with passing time, beauty fades. He wants people to get going like amorous bids of prety since when they are in theier prime, for later when they are older they cannot do many pleasures in life.
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To his Coy Mistress
Andrew Marvell |
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He talks about how time needs to be used now when someone is in his prime since time causes things to go away such as a flower. He wants to convince you to act in your ptime and don't wait or it will be too late.
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To the Virgins to Make Much of Time
Robert Herrick |
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Author is talking to a boy who has been rejected by a girl. He has tried everything to win her, but the boy is WAN and the author tells him to give up and let the devil take her.
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Song
Sir John Suckling |
A song to convince someone to get over a girl. If your name was SUCKLING, you'd be very wan too.
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Time is passing quickly, it seems like he is an adult but he doesn't really feel like one. Everything that happens is a result of time and the will of heaven.
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Sonnet VII
John Milton |
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Milton is going blind, feels his only task is to serve God. Must accept God's will.
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Sonnet XIX
John Milton |
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Story of the fall of man and Satan and Beelzebub. Satan wants revenge, and decides that he will make everyone suffer. He'd rather rule in Hell than be ruled in Heaven.
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Paradise Lost
John Milton |
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