Silence in the classroom can feel unbearable. Like Camelot silence in the face of the Green Knight.
Tag Archives: Sir Gawain and the Green Knight
Sir Gawain and Classroom Silences
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Summer Solstice Unleashes Dark Forces
Early works of Brit Lit used summer solstice imagery to explore clashes between Christian England and its pagan past.
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Facing the Cold
Imagine being a knight in armor (Sir Gawain) and getting pounded by the recent snow and freezing temperatures.
Peeped Most Piteously for Pain of the Cold
With our first snowfall, birds are swarming our feeders, bringing to mind a passage from “Sir Gawain and the Green Knight” and an Oliver Herford lyric.
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Choose Life over Needless Sacrifice
Trump wants people to gamble with their lives to open up the economy. These works remind us that life is too precious to be sqandered this way.
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The Green Knight on Handling Death
“Sir Gawain and the Green Knight” is one of the most profound works I know for dealing with death.
Morgan Le Faye through the Ages
Monday Last week I finished teaching a short “Wizards and Enchantresses” course for Sewanee’s Lifelong Learning program and thoroughly enjoyed myself. Having already talked about my class on Merlin (see here, here, and here), today I share what I had to say about Morgan Le Faye and her successors. With Morgan, we looked at how […]
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Green Knight & the Great Trump Hunt
Wednesday Donald Trump’s public relations lawyer Rudy Giuliani put on a performance for the ages this past Sunday, reminding me of no one so much as the fox in Sir Gawain and the Green Knight. Hold on while I explain. Trump often obfuscates to fend off charges leveled against him. If you can cloud the […]
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