ENGL 201 Lecture Notes - Kenning, Geoffrey Chaucer, Metonymy
10 Mar 2014
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3 most common figures the kenning compound of two words instead of another whale road life house think about things we take for granted in a new way what poetry is a lot about synecdoche sword edge dragon coiled thing metonymy one thing applied to another with what it is commonly associated dead metaphors the king being refered to in countries of english origin. Symbolism of the forest fairest dame alive beauty"s chase she is named beauty in canto 8 stanza 46 grizzly forester the knights pursue florimell in a differnent way forester lust knights more complex love impulses. 1 female to 150 male publication types of female writing translational theological texts written by men domestic quite rare for women to publish fiction or poetry or to even write it partly because publication was going public, and widely assumed that women belonged in the domestic sphere appropriate role of women.
