Romantic and Victorian Poetry

Romantic and Victorian Poetry

French Revolution
The French Revolution took place at the beginning of the Romantic period from 1789 to 1799. The French Revolution began with the storming of Bastille on July 14, 1789. The French Revolution started out to end the arbitrary rule of kings and their high taxes. King Louis XVI was brought to trial in December of 1792 and was executed on January 21, 1793. Soon after in that same month the revolutionary government declared war on Britain. The French Revolution ended when Napoleon Bonaparte seized power of the French in 1799.
War of 1812
The United States declared war on Great Britain on June 12, 1812. The war was declared because of long simmering disputes the US was having with Great Britain. The main argument surrounded the impressment of American soldiers by the British. The disputes continued with British over the Northwest Territories and the border of Canada. Finally, the attempt of Great Britain to impose a blockade on France during the Napoleonic Wars was a constant source of conflict with the United States. The war of 1812 finally ended in the year of 1815.
I believe that life was very hard for normal people during this time. People probably gave up on a lot of stuff because of the wars and etc. During this time it was probably hard for people to think positive thoughts with so many problems in the world. Children were probably happy because they didn’t have to go to regular school sessions whereas they were also upset because of all the changes they had to go through with the government. The people in this time had a lot less if they were poor life was hard.
Romantic Poets wanted to express themselves with poems about nature, imagination and the knowledge of human minds. Romantic poets wrote a lot about nature and the earth, this was a new spirituality they were experiencing, though it was not the stern religious beliefs of the past, there poetry circled God through its view of nature. Many romantic poets described nature as a healing and spiritual force that could never be influenced through mans power. Soon romantic poets began to explore the virtues of imagination. Imagination was viewed as a way for the soul to link with the eternal. Romantic poets believed that imagination was superior to reason and that emotional matter came in an imaginative form. Romantic poets praised imagination as a means of great furthering knowledge. The romantic poets also at this time came up with their view on the human mind. Romantic poets were very frustrated with the limitations placed on knowledge because at this particular time, people chose reason over emotion and they didn’t feel that it was a smart thing to do. The poet Coleridge once wrote that the human mind is the creative wellspring. What Coleridge meant by this is that the human mind is the source of all creative thoughts.
Step two: Romantic Poetry
William Blake “Eternity” Basically what this poem is saying is that you shouldn’t waste your life on one thing you enjoy. Because if you do you are wasting your life on something you have already had a chance to enjoy. He is telling you to let that joyful thing fly away from you because that is not the only joyful thing in the world. If you figure this out you shall live eternity with many different joys you have experienced.
This is a good example of romantic thought because it’s talking about the human mind. Its saying that life is to short to let your mind stray on one thing when there is so much more. It’s also saying that knowledge and creativeness and experience is a bad thing to waste. So don’t limit your mind to one thing. In this case the whole poem itself is a piece of direct evidence. “He who binds to himself a joy Does the winged life destroy; But he who kisses the joy as it flies Lives in eternity’s sun rise. This poem also goes along with what the romantic’s believed about imagination and how it linked to the eternal.
William Wordsworth “Composed During a Storm” In this poem a big storm comes along the guy in his boat is so frightened that he only finds closure through prayer. So that’s exactly what he does he prays, and puts his care in God’s hand. After a minute of fierce wind, thunder, and the howling of wolves the guy is speechless. As he opened his eyes a large space appeared and what he saw was the purest sky he had every seen. And he knew that at that moment that he was invisible with God by his side.
This poem is a good example of Romantic thought because it talks a lot about nature. And nature is what romantics loved to write poems about. “Of the fierce wind, while mid-day lightning’s prowl Insidiously, untimely thunders growl; While trees, dim-seen, in frenzied numbers remnant of their yellow hair; that instant, did appear Large space of purest sky.” As you can see romantics loved nature and could describe it as anything and make it still sound good.
George Gordon/ Lord Byron “She Walks in Beauty” This particular poem is a poem of love. It’s talking about a woman and how he (the poet) views her. The poem tells about how beautiful she is and continues to explain her beauty by comparing her to beautiful things in nature. He is basically explaining how he feels about this person. This poem is a good example of Romantic poetry because it talks a lot about nature and how wonderful it looks.
“She walks in beauty, like the night Of cloudless climes and starry skies; And all that’s best of dark and bright. One shade the more, one ray the less, Had half impaired the nameless grace, Which waves in every raven tress.” This piece of evidence talks completely about nature and how beautiful it is and how it looks in comparison with the woman walk.
Percy Bysshe Shelley “The Magnetic Lady to her Patient” To me this poem is a love poem but at the same time it is a poem of loss. What I mean is in the poem the guy is talking about how he loves certain things about Mary. But while doing this the was also telling about how much he missed her and wished she would come to the place where he was.
This poem is a good example of Romantic poetry because it talks about the human mind (he’s telling his feelings) and it also talks about nature. “Mary dear, come to me soon, I am not well whilst thou art far; As sunset to the sphered moon, As twilight to the western star, Thou, beloved, art to me.” As you can tell from this passage the poem talks a lot about nature and how it looks, it’s comparing her to nature.
John Keats “Give me Women, Wine, and Snuff” This poem was very short but I really understood what he was saying. This poem is talking about exactly what the title states he wants all of these things regularly before he dies. I don’t have a clue what this has to do with Romantic poetry but it could be that he wants to live his life to the fullest before he dies and lives for eternity.
“GIVE me women, wine, and snuff until I cry out "hold, enough!" You may do so sans objection till the day of resurrection: For, bless my beard, they aye shall be my beloved trinity.” This is the poem to me he was just writing exactly what he was thinking at that point in time.
The Great Exhibition
The Great Exhibition was also known as the Crystal Palace Exhibition. This was an international exhibition held in Hyde Park, London, from 1 May to 15 October 1851 and the first in a series of World’s Fair exhibitions of culture and industry. Prince Albert, Henry Cole, Francis Fuller, Charles Dilke and other members of the Royal Society organized the Great Exhibition for the Encouragement of Art.
The public health act of 1875
The Public Health Act of 1875 was established in Great Britain to combat filthy urban living conditions, which caused the spread of many diseases such as cholera and typhus. With this act reformers wanted to resolve sanitary problems, including the presence of sewage in living quarters. This act required all new residential construction to include running water and an internal drainage system. This act also led to the government prohibiting the construction of shoddy housing (poor quality housing) by building contractors.
I really don’t know what life was like for normal people during this time, but prostitution was very big during this point. Single women became increasingly interested in this, soon after “The Great Social Evil” was the name given to prostitution. But I figure life was hard for people during this time too because at first they were living in shoddy houses. But life probably pick up later because they soon had to have internal drainage in their homes which I know made life easier for them.
I believe that the biggest difference between the Romantic Period and the Victorian period is the way they treated the children. First off during the Romantic period they treated their children like grown people. They made the children work in factories every day for long hours and little pay if any. People were very poor around this time and because the children were working at huge factories a lot of sickness went around these factories because of the bad hygiene problems.
The Victorian poets expressed their work through questions and doubts, but they also expressed their thought through the connection of body and soul, heaven and earth. The Victorians also expressed their work through moral and political thoughts.
First Victorians expressed their work through questions and doubts. In other words they poems were filled with questions and raising doubts. The Victorian poets spoke to others that they thought shallow and complacent, Victorian poets questioned whether material things really satisfied human wants and needs.
The next way that Victorians wrote was through the connection of heaven and earth, body and soul. Meaning that they believed that the highest purpose of a poet or a writer was to make readers aware of the connection between earth and heaven, body and soul, material and ideal. Even though they felt this way many poets disagreed with this idea.
Last Victorians expressed their work through moral and political thoughts. Victorian poem writers had different means of writing. Some Victorian writers wanted to shame or scare the reader into doing moral and political actions that they believed were possible. While other Victorian writers literature was made to entertain, inform, warn and reassure people.
Alfred, Lord Tennyson “All Things Will Die” In this poem Alfred is basically saying what the title of this poem is All things will die. He is saying that every thing is born so every thing must also die. Alfred says that while we are living we see many beautiful things but when we are called we must go in others words when our time comes we can not change it no matter how hard we try.
This poem is a good example of Victorian thought because it is basically talking about the relationship between heaven and earth, body and soul. When you’re here on earth have fun and do what is right in your body, but when you are called to heaven you must leave your earth body and your soul must travel to heaven. “Yet all things must die.The stream will cease to flow; the wind will cease to blow; the clouds will cease to fleet;the heart will cease to beat; for all things must die. All things must die. Spring will come never more O, vanity! Death waits at the door.”
Robert Browning “After” In this poem Robert is talking about after death has done its job. To me the poem is sort of saying this. They’ve found a human body that’s been dead for a long time. So they uncover the person’s face to see how it looks and they make the comment that death has done what death can do. This poem to be is a good example of Victorian poetry because it sort of talking about how they feel about death, heaven and earth and the body.
“Take the cloak from his face, and at first let the corpse do its worst! How he lies in his rights of a man! Death has done all death can. And, absorbed in the new life he leads, he recks not, he heeds nor his wrong nor my vengeance; both strike on his senses alike, and are lost in the solemn and strange surprise of the change.”

Mentor Log

April 20, 2007
12:00 P.M. -- 4:00 P.M.

Today I arrived at my grandmother's house earlier than twelve o'clock but our mentor session didn't start until twelve. At twelve we started to talk about what my main priorities where. I decided that I was at least a couple of weeks behind with my product. Because of my days spent in the hospital so I said that I needed to do something big to make my project a success.

At that very moment I decided to only make my quilt and the pillows to go along with it. To start me off my grandmother went to get the patterns for the quilt, the first thing we had to work on was figuring out what pattern we wanted to use. Soon I came up with a triangle-square like pattern, with the colors we chose, which was red and green. My grandmother convinced me that those were the perfect colors since the only time I would be using the quilt was during the winter and Christmas time of the year.

After choosing the pattern and color we got to work. My grandmother decided that I should hand sew the quilt that way I would have a more hands on experience with sewing. First she showed me how to thread the needle then she showed me how to tie the thread at the end so that the thread would stay in place and not go straight through the fabric. Next she told me how to place the fabric on the opposite side and how to sew to triangles together.

So for the rest of our time I sat there sewing as many triangles together as I could until it became time for me to go home.

Mentor Log

Natasha Mentor Log
April 13, 2007
12:00 P.M. – 4:00 P.M.

Today at twelve I went to Rocksprings Homes to visit my mentor. When I got there I walked up to the door and knocked. Soon as I was inside I went straight to the kitchen because she’s my grandmother and because it was lunchtime. After I finished lunch she asked me if I knew or had any ideas of what my product was going to be I replied no.

After a couple of minutes we finally got an idea to make a quilt with a couple of pillows to go along with it and maybe a pair or two children's clothes. Next we went down the hall to her sewing room and started to go through loads and loads of patterns. She told me that she used to use these patterns when she was younger to make clothing to sell for money. I asked her if people really bought these clothes and she was like yeah when she was younger these clothes were in style and also that many people didn’t have much to wear.

First we went through little boys clothing then we moved on to the patterns for little girls. After going through most of her patterns for about an hour we had chosen at least two patterns for each that we thought we might like to use for my product. After choosing those patterns we had to put away all of the other patterns. After minutes of doing that we moved on to finding some patterns for my quilt and after searching for a long while we found about ten quilt patterns that looked good.

Finally we were done with putting all of the other patterns we hadn’t chosen away and decided to take a break. We got together our patterns and went into the living room to find her zip lock bags so we could put the patterns away until our next visit. We found them in the pantry and placed the patterns inside the bags and in her room so that we wouldn’t have to go through all the trouble of searching for them again. You know how grandmothers are they love to collect stuff and soon there’s stuff every where.

My mother called and told me that she was on the way to come and get me so I told my grandmother that I would see her the next visit. On the next visit we plan to choose the fabric and to begin sewing the outfits for my product. So after that I finished cleaning up and went home and thats how that visit ended.

The Restoration

The Glorious Revolution

The Glorious Revolution was the overthrow of James II of England. He was overthrown by a union of Parliamentarians and by a man named William the III of Orange-Nassau. The deposition of the Roman Catholic James II ended any chance of Catholicism becoming re-established in England, which also lead to toleration for nonconformist Protestants.

The Glorious Revolution was important because it was known as the last successful invasion of England. This event began the Modern English Parliamentary Democracy. This event also made the Bill of Rights one of the most important documents in the political history of Britain.

"What is Satire?" Satire is the use of irony, sarcasm and ridicule against a person. It’s when you use words to tell a meaning that is opposite of what you really meant. Ex: "I got fired today" "Well isn’t that nice" that’s satire. Examples of satire today include; the television show the Simpson’s, the Jay Leno show, Saturday Night Live, and David Letterman are all examples to me of satire today on television.

At the beginning of the Modest Proposal Jonathan Swift was telling about how he felt sorry for all the beggars. Then he went on to talk about how every time you saw a woman beggar she always had at least six children trailing behind her. Jonathan goes on to say that people could sell their children but that would not work because the children aren’t old enough (until they are 13) and that by the time they are old enough their to small to work because they have not been feed enough. The last message is saying that the women should become breeders and they should have lots and lots of children so that they can sell them to hungry people so they can eat them. He also said that there should be 1 man to every 4 females. This is an example of satire because he really didn’t mean he was going to sell the children for food for real, he was being sarcastic I hope.

"A Journal of the Plague Year" The plague cam as a surprise to every body some people had the disease but didn’t know so while they were living their regular life they were really passing the plague along to other people. The plague was supposed to have come from rats. They believe that the plague was passed to humans from fleas. Because the fleas used to bite the rats which were infected and the flea would after go bite a human. "For example, many persons in the time of this visitation never perceived that they were infected till they found, to their unspeakable surprise, the tokens come out apon them;

I also read that after the tokens showed up the person infected rarely lived six hours. The disease spread fast mainly because no body knew they had it until at least two days after they had caught it. So by then you know that they probably had already spread it to thousands of people in their village. Soon people started to kill themselves because they caught the plague. Some hung themselves others shot themselves, although some of them did not have the plague but they were probably scared of catching it or maybe they had lost everything because of it. People started to become very delusional they would strip naked and run out of their houses and down the street. Others would throw themselves into the burial pits with all of the people who had been plagued and did not make it. The plague had gotten so bad that there was a law against leaving your quarantine if your house was infected with the disease. "Inside London, if any member of a family came down with the plague, the whole family was confined by law to its dwelling."

I think that staying alive was the most important aspect to people in these times of plague. People who weren’t infected stayed away from people who were unless they were family members and they needed their help. Some still abandoned their family after they found out the plague had hit their own home. I also feel that not spreading the plague was very important to the people of this time too because 1: the plague was very contagious and 2: because they made a law for you not to leave your house if someone inside it was infected. "The alarm was great in the house, as anyone may suppose, they having been free from the distemper till that disaster, which, bringing the infection to the house, spread it immediately to other houses round about it." So as you can see not getting infected was very important to people of this time.

Amateur Sonneteer Project

"Why must we waste food?"

Why must we waste food?
When others cannot eat,
It’s not about being rude
It’s about standing on two feet.
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I never waste my food you see;
Food is lost but can’t be found
For many others it’s not plenty,
Not even if you look under ground!
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But why not share our eats with them?
Don’t be so selfish to throw it away
We are all alike like a branch and a stem,
I’m not trying to recite a cliché.
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Our food is great and plentiful.
So eat your food, don’t be a fool.

The Renaissance

After reading the passage on the renaissance the thing that stuck out to me was the part about his six wives. I think that’s kind of weird how he had two of his wives beheaded and got away with it I guess because he was king. Really I don’t see why he got married at all because non-of his marriages lasted for a long time. It sort of seems as if he married just so he could have a child to pass the thorn down to. His longest marriage was to his first wife Catherine of Aragon they were married for 24 years. After King Henry got a divorce or his wife died he would never wait a while to choose a new wife and that stuck out to me too.

The Renaissance - - Sonnets

Shakespeare’s poem makes you notice that he only rhymes twice. In other words the word at the end of his sentence is only used two times to make to lines while the word still rhymes. Whereas Spencer’s poem prefers to use rhyme A twice B and C four times, line D twice and rhyme E twice. I prefer Shakespeare’s rhyme scheme you don’t have to come up with a couple of lines that rhyme you just have to come up with two.

William Shakespeare’s Sonnet
The first section is asking if he can compare her to a summer’s day. So before the person gives a response he compares her anyway. So basically what I’m saying is in the first paragraph he is comparing a summer’s day to a person. In the second section he is actually explaining what a hot summer’s day is like. Section three he sort of puts section one and two together and flips the meaning. He goes on to explain how his beautiful summer will not change and wither away. In section four he sums it up by basically saying that as long as men can breathe or eyes can see life will always come back to his summer, that’s what I think he is saying.

Edmund Spencer’s Sonnet

The first section of this poem is asking why the women he is talking to (or trying to talk to) is so cold, he is comparing himself to fire and her to ice. In section two of the poem he is saying how he knows he has great exceeding heat but not enough heat to melt her frozen heart. Section three is the turn, in this section he is talking about how fire should melt everything and how ice harden everything, but also how ice should kindle fire in the end. In section four he sums up by saying that love is so gentle that he can alter all courses of kind. So I guess he is saying that if he shows her enough kindness love will melt her icy heart.

Shakespeare’s Sonnet 23
"As an unperfect actor on stage"
As an unperfect actor on the stage (A)
Who with his fear is put besides his part, (B)
Or some fierce thing replete with too much rage, (A)
Whose strength’s abundance weakens his own heart. (B)
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So I, for fear of trust, forget to say (C)
The perfect ceremony of love’s rite, (D)
And in mine own love’s strength seem to decay, (C)
O’ercharged with burden of mine own love’s might. (D)
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O, let my books be then the eloquence (E)
And dumb presagers of my speaking breast, (F)
Who plead for love and look for recompense (E)
More than that tongue that more hath more express’d. (F)
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O, learn to read what silent love hath writ: (G)
To hear with eyes belongs to love’s fine wit. (G)

Section 1- is telling how a actor can be very good at his job but when it comes to standing in front of huge crowds the actor becomes a coward. Even though the actor may be playing a very brave person in the play this person is put aside and his real character comes through. Section 2- in this section he saying that even though he knows his lines he forgets to go by them. Instead his strength starts to decay from the entire burden put on his part in the play. Section 3- I guess here he’s praying that his strength doesn’t leave him, he’s preying that his book sense helps him through.

Spencer’s Sonnet 75
"One day I wrote her name upon a strand"
One day I wrote her name upon the strand, (A)
But came the waves and washed it away: (B)
Again I wrote it with a second hand, (A)
But came the tide, and made pains his prey. (B)
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Vain man, said she, that dost in vain assay (B)
A mortal thing so to immortalize! (C)
For I myself shall like to this decay, (B)
And eek my name be wiped out likewise. (C)
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Not so (quoth I), let baser things devise (C)
To die in dust, but you shall live by fame: (D)
My verse your virtues rare shall eternize, (C)
And in the heavens write your glorious name; (D)
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Where, whenas death shall all the world subdue, (E)
Our love shall live, and later life renew. (E)

Section 1- basically he writes her name in the sand the waves washed it away but that didn’t stop him. He still wrote her name over but the tide came again. Section 2- to me she’s saying that he worships her like a god when she is not. She probably feels that he should just wipe her name from that title. Section 3- To me he’s telling her that he doesn’t care about how she feels. He is still going to treat her the same way even after he is long gone, because he says. "And in the heavens write your glorious name."

The Middle Ages

The Crusades
The Crusades were a number of over 19 military campaigns caused by religious differences. Christians waged the Crusades from 1095-1291. The goal of the Crusades was to recapture Jerusalem and the sacred Holy Land (Israel) from Muslim rule. The only way a crusade was official was if the pope sanctioned it. The beginning of the crusades was caused in the year of 1070 when the Turks (who were also Muslim) conquered the holy lands and mistreated Christians before realizing how useful their good will (and money) could be. After wards the Turks also threatened the Byzantine Empire, so emperor Alexius asked the pope for assistance, and so the crusades began.

The Murder of Thomas a Becket
Thomas Becket was the Archbishop of Canterbury from 1162 to 1170. He engaged in a conflict with King Henry II over the rights and privileges of the Church. After wards the followers of the king assassinated Becket. After the argument the king spoke some very harsh words about Becket. The four knights listening took the king’s words as a royal command. So they set out to plot the murder of Thomas Becket. On Tuesday, December 29, 1170 they carried out their plan, Becket was murdered inside Canterbury Cathedral.

The Magna Carta
The Magna Carta which is (also called Magna Carta Libertatum) an English charter originally issued in 1215. The Magna Carta was the most significant influence on the long historical process that led to the rule of constitutional law today. Magna Carta influenced many common law documents, such as the United States Constitution and Bill of Rights, and is considered one of the most important legal documents in the history of democracy. The Magna Carta was originally created because of disagreements between Pope Innocent III, King John and his English barons (a British nobleman of the lowest rank) about the rights of the King.

The Black Death
The Black Death, also known as the Black Plague, was a fatal pandemic that began in southwestern Asia and spread to Europe by the late 1340s, where it got the name Black Death. It killed between a third and two-thirds of Europe’s population, including Middle Eastern lands, India and China, it killed at least 75 million people. The same disease is thought to have returned to Europe every generation with varying degrees of intensity and fatality until the 1700s. There is some controversy over the identity of the disease, but in its virulent form seems to have disappeared from Europe in the 18th century.

The Canterbury tales.
The Knight
The knight is a brave and experienced and gentleman. He is a man who is worthy and honored around the world. The knight has fought fifteen battles and has won every one. If you ask me the knight is the type of guy that every body loves. "As well in Christendom as heathenesse, And honoured everywhere for worthiness." "In all his life, to whatsoever wight. He was a truly perfect, noble knight."

The Squire
The Squire is the Knights son he is a wondrous active bachelor. He’s good at making songs and words and he loves to dance. I feel that the squire is nothing like the knight except that he is strong and kind other than that he’s nothing like the knight. "With him there was his son, a young SQUIRE, A lover and a lively bachelor." "He could make songs and words thereto indite, Joust, and dance too, as well as sketch and write."

Yeoman
The Yeoman is the knights and the squire servant. I believe that the Yeoman is not the type of servant that does inside work I think he is the type that deals with deeds in the forest because he wears a lot of green. " And he was clothed in coat and hood of green. A sheaf of peacock arrows bright and keen." "A Christopher medal on his breast of silver sheen. He bore a horn, the baldric all of green;"

Prioress
Prioress to me is a type of woman who doesn’t like a mess the type of person who has to stay clean. Prioress is the head of the convent (she’s a nun), with very exquisite tastes. I believe that Prioress is a very well dressed well-behaved woman. "At table her manners were well taught withall, And never let morsels from her lips fall, Nor dripped her fingers deep in sauce, but ate with so much care the food upon her plate that no drop could fall upon her breast. In courtesy she had delight and zest."

Monk
I believe that this is not a regular monk he doesn’t care much about the rules he supposed to follow. I also feel this way because he’s loud, loves to go hunting and he loves to eat regular monks don’t act in this manner. "A MONK there was, one of the finest sort, An outrider; hunting was his sport; And when he rode men might his bridle hear Jingling in the whistling wind as clear, Also as loud as does the chapel bell Where this monk was governor of the cell."

Friar
To me the friar is hard to explain the end says his name is Hubert. I think that the friar loves becoming friends with young girls, rich people so he can gossip about helping them with their problems. To me the friar is sort of like a fake friend it sort of seems like he uses the people he becomes friends with. "In all the Four Orders is no one that can Equal his gossip and well-spoken speech." "He had arranged many a marriage, giving each Of young women, and this at his own cost."

Merchant
The merchant sounds like a man who's very rich and who loves to brag. I believe that the merchant is a high-class person in society and that he gets a lot of respect. "He spoke out his opinions very solemnly, Stressing the times when he won, not lost." "This worthy man kept all his wits well set; There was no person that knew he was in debt."

Clerk
The clerk loves the study of philosophy. He spends all his money on books for his study before clothes and food so he and his horse are very thin. From what I can tell Clerk would borrow money from his friends and would always spend the money on getting new books. Clerk doesn't talk a lot but when he does speak what ever comes out of his mouth is something very smart. "Who's studied philosophy, long ago. As lean was his horse as is a rake, And he too as not fat, that I take." "Very worn off was his overcoat; for he would rather have at his bed's head Some twenty books, all bound in black and red." " But all that he might borrow from a friend on books and learning he would swiftly spend."

Physician
The physician is good at his job and saves every patient from his or her sickness. He can cure every sickness using his knowledge of the planets. To me it seems as if the physician is in perfect health and physical shape. He sounds like a very smart man to me. "In all the world there was none like him; for he is instructed in astronomy. He cared for and saved a patient many times By natural science and studying astrological signs." "He knew the cause of every sickness, Whether it brings heat or cold, moisture or dryness."

Wife of Bath
I feel that the Wife of the Bath is a very interesting person who dresses very neat. She's been married fives times, and from what i can tell from the passage she is deaf in one ear. She has a gap between her two front teeth but i guess it's a beauty trade mark because she's been married 5 times. She likes to sew and is good what ever she makes. The Wife of Bath is teh type of women who makes every body feel happy she's good company. "Who was somewhat deaf, it is a pity. At making clothes she had a skillful hand. Her headdresses were of finest weave and ground."

Parson
The parson is a poor countryman who is rich in holy thought and good deeds. The Parson is what you call a true church going man. To me the narrator is saying that Parson is the type of person who practices what he teaches. "A good man was there of religion, he was a poor Country Parson, but rich he was in holy thought and work." "Who Christ's own gospel truly sought to preach; Devoutly his parishioers would he teach."

Plowman
The plowman is a hard working man who has a very peaceful life. God is his heart no matter what he went through. I think that Plowman is a(n) very honorable man, he doesn't think of wealth just of Christ and helping others. "He loved God most, and that with his whole heart at all times, whether it was easy or hard, and next, his neighbour, even as himself. He'd thresh and dig, and never thought of wealth."

Miller
Miller is a strong man who knows his strength. To me miller is a big cocky man who shows off a little to get his point across. I feel that Miller is out of control he runs through doors using his head, he tears doors off the hinges he’s like a mad man. "He was stoutly built, broad and heavy; He lifted each door from its hinges, that easy, Or break it though, by running, with his head. His beard, as any sow or fox, was red."

Manciple
I can tell from the first few lines that Manciple is a very smart man and that he knew how to use he’s knowledge. Manciple is smarter than the lawyers he works for and I know that makes them mad. "To whom all buyers might think of as an example To learn the art of buying victuals; Cash or credit, he knew all the rituals, That he knew the markets, watched them closely." "The wisdom of a crowd of learned men? Of masters had he more than three times ten, Who were in law expert and curious."

Sir Gawain and the Green Knight
In part one Sir Gawain takes a swing at the Green Knights head and chops it off. The knight gets up and picks his head up like nothing happened. He then tells Gawain that he must meet him at the Green Chapel on New Year’s morn to seek his pay back, a stroke the same as he had given the green knight. The next year Gawain sets off on his trip to the Green Chapel until one day she finds a beautiful castle. The lord of the castle welcomes him and promises to help him find the green knight. The host tells Gawain that he will go hunting each day and will give all his wins to Gawain as long as all of Gawain’s wins from that day went to him. Each day he goes hunting the host’s wife tries to seduce Gawain but Gawain ignores. Promises are kept but on the third day when he gives the host three kisses not the lady’s sash.

In part two the servant shows Gawain gets the way to the green chapel. Gawain finally reaches the place but there’s nothing there. The Green Knight appears he takes one swing then stops he says Gawain flinched. He takes another swing but he stops again this time to tell Gawain that he has gotten his heart back. On the last swing the knight just taps him than he begins to explain that Gawain kissed his wife twice and returned all the kisses. Then he says that he tapped him the third time because he did not give the sash to the host as he was told. He respects Gawain for his loyalty and understands that Gawain didn’t tell of the sash because he loves his life and didn’t want it to end.

1. Some of the most familiar figures from the Middle Ages were knights who were loyal protectors of the king. In this story Gawain was the perfect night and very loyal.
2. Knights strictly obeyed a code of conduct called chivalry, which included their oath of loyalty to their overlord, and the adoration of a particular lady, which may not have been their wife. In the story the host’s wife kept tempting Gawain but he did not give in to temptation.
3. The adoration of the lady was meant as a means of self-improvement for the knights.