Sir Gawain and Green Knight.
Video with Simon Armitage
Sir Gawain and the Green Knight romance does not attempt a whole life: it
focuses on two New Year’s Day feasts and the intervening year;
folklore motifs— the beheading game, the vegetation myth ( myth of life, death, and rebirth ), the
arming and testing of the hero, the exchange of winnings.
Plot
and place details become number symbolic, for example,2 feasts, 2 parts of
the beheading game, 2 courts, 3 temptations, 4 parts of the romance, 4 seasons.
Ultimately - the paradoxical conclusion that mark of
shame and badge of honor are one and the same as Gawain retains the green
girdle to remind him of his act of deception, and faithful ness in all else.
An idealistic, romance portrayal of how the individual can fit into
the great scheme of things.
Articles on Simon Armitage
http://www.theguardian.com/books/2015/jun/19/simon-armitage-wins-oxford-professor-of-poetry-election
http://www.theguardian.com/books/2007/feb/03/poetry.simonarmitageTristan and Iseult http://www.gutenberg.org/files/14244/14244-h/14244-h.htm
At home read:
THE WOOD OF MOROIS
THE DEATH OF TRISTAN
Tristan and Iseult story in short
http://bostonlyricopera.blogspot.lt/2014/10/the-romance-of-tristan-and-iseult-by.html
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