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THE ALLITERATIVE REVIVAL IN MEDIEVAL POETRY - Coggle Diagram
THE ALLITERATIVE REVIVAL IN MEDIEVAL POETRY
Between 1350 and 1400, over twenty significant Middle English poems were written.
Sir Gawain and the Green Knight
This poem is one of the greatly admired works of medieval literature.
It is divided into four stages:
The Knightly Quest
The Temptation
The Challenge
The Return Blow
Characteristics
Poems seem written to be recited.
Shows the personality of the author.
Uses myths and conventional subjects, and seek to teach a lesson.
Piers Plowman
It is considered by many to be the greatest poem of the Middle English Alliterative Revival .
Basic content
The poet dreams of a tower on a hill, a dungeon in the valley, and a "fair field full of folk' in between. Symbolically, God lives in the tower, the devil in the dungeon
Importance of the poem
It is second only to the Canterbury Tales in giving vivid scenes of medieval life
Many of the sayings in Piers Plowman became slogans shouted by the protesters in the Peasants Revolt
Notes in certain manuscripts ascribe the authorship to a William Langland.
Medieval Meaning of Gawain
It teaches the virtues of chivalry and knighthood.
It can be associated with the founding of England's Order of the Garter
The Pearl Poet
Peart is a dream allegory lamenting the death of the poet's two-year-old daughter and envisioning Paradise.
Purity promotes the virtue of purity by paraphrasing Biblical stories of the Flood.
The authorship of several anonymous alliterative poems in similar style, diction, and dialect.
Patience illustrates the evils of impatience by retelling the story of Jonah in a humorous way.
