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Part 1:
“Thomas Wyatt” and “Edmund Spenser”, for each people, in 2 or 3 sentences describe their relevance of British Literature. (the first one has a material to refer, and it would be attached in the files, named “Wyatt”, the material for second people is named “Faerie Queene” in the file) the description for these two people needs to be separated.
Part 2:
Define the following 4 terms in 1-3 sentences for each
Kenning
Alliteration
Meter
Scansion
Part 3:
Pick 2 of the forms or genres listed below and describe the conventions and rules for it. Pick an example of this genre or form and explain how they fits the rules and conventions (the examples need to be picked from the following materials that would be provided later)
Epic
Frame story
Fabliau
Beast Fable
Sonnet
Examples needs to be in the following materials:
“Caedmon’s Hymn” “Dream of the Rood” “Beowulf” “The Werewolf” “General Prologue” “The Miller’s Tale” “The Nun’s Priest’s Tale” “Everyman” “Second Shepherd’s Play” “Morte Darthur” by Mallory “Utopia” by Thomas “King Arthur” “Bible Translation” “Romeo and Juliet” “Shakespeare Sonnets”
Marlowe “The Passionate Shepherd to his Love”
Raleigh “A Vison upon this Conceit of the Fairy Queen” and :The Nymph’s Reply to the Shepherd”
Layer “Eve’s Apology in Defense of Women”
Donne “The Flea” “The Bait”
Elizabeth I “On Monsieur’s Departure
Spenser “Faerie Queene”
Part 4:
Pick 4 lines of the poetry listed below, determine the meter and mark the stressed and unstressed syllables, need to show general understanding in there.
On Monsieur’s Departure
BY QUEEN ELIZABETH I
I grieve and dare not show my discontent,
I love and yet am forced to seem to hate,
I do, yet dare not say I ever meant,
I seem stark mute but inwardly do prate.
I am and not, I freeze and yet am burned,
Since from myself another self I turned.
My care is like my shadow in the sun,
Follows me flying, flies when I pursue it,
Stands and lies by me, doth what I have done.
His too familiar care doth make me rue it.
No means I find to rid him from my breast,
Till by the end of things it be supprest.
Some gentler passion slide into my mind,
For I am soft and made of melting snow;
Or be more cruel, love, and so be kind.
Let me or float or sink, be high or low.
Or let me live with some more sweet content,
Or die and so forget what love ere meant.
Part 5 (350 + words for each question)
Arthurian legends are many and varied, often contradicting themselves in different texts. There is also no evidence that King Arthur himself ever existed. Despite this, Arthur is considered an important part of British history and national identity. Thinking of specific aspects of Arthur’s and his knights’ stories, why might these stories be so important? What do they add to the imagined or real history of the British people in England? (350+ words)
Some of the works survive in manuscript form only while others were originally published and spread using the printing press. How did the advancement of writing technologies change literary history? How does the type of technology used to publish these works change our interpretations/understandings of them? (350+ words)
The related materials are:
“Caedmon’s Hymn”
“Dream of the Rood”
“Beowulf”
“The Werewolf”
“General Prologue”
“The Miller’s Tale”
“The Nun’s Priest’s Tale”
“Everyman”
“Second Shepherd’s Play”
“Morte Darthur” by Mallory
“Utopia” by Thomas
“King Arthur”
“Bible Translation”
“Romeo and Juliet” “
Shakespeare Sonnets”
Marlowe “The Passionate Shepherd to his Love”
Raleigh “A Vison upon this Conceit of the Fairy Queen” and “The Nymph’s Reply to the Shepherd”
Layer “Eve’s Apology in Defense of Women”
Donne “The Flea” “The Bait”
Elizabeth I “On Monsieur’s Departure
Spenser “Faerie Queene”
Auld Robin Gray “The Skylark” and “The Gull” from Chronicle
“The Illusion of the World”
