ENG202Y1 Study Guide - Lanval, Stout, Vates
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Essay topic passages: from dream of the rood: wonderful was the triumph-tree, and i stained with sins, wounded with wrongdoings. I saw the tree of glory shine splendidly, adorned with garments, decked with gold: jewels had worthily covered the lord"s tree. Yet through that tree i might perceive ancient agony of wretches, for now it began to bleed on the right side. I was all afflicted with sorrows, i was afraid for that fair sight. The rape of the lock ends by invoking the themes of transience and mortality : For, after all the murders of your eye, When those fair suns shall set, as set they must, And all those tresses shall be laid in dust, This lock the muse shall consecrate to fame, Marie de france: from prologue to lais: whoever has received knowledge and eloquence in speech from god should not be silent or secretive but demonstrate it willingly.
