Hamlet, Beowulf, and Sir Gawain and the Green Knight each show us powerful ways to grieve.
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Tag Archives: Sir Gawain and the Green Knight
The Sleepy Sound of a Tea-Time Tide
We’re currently visiting Anglesey, Wales and can thus appreciate John Betjeman’s idyllic poem about the bay.
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The Green Knight Film? Ugh!
“Sir Gawain and the Green Knight” is a profound meditation on death and a comic masterpiece. The film about it? Not so much.
Sir Gawain and Classroom Silences
Silence in the classroom can feel unbearable. Like Camelot silence in the face of the Green Knight.
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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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