Sir gawain and the Green Knight: Notes by John Gardner

Author:John Gardner
Language: eng
Format: mobi
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Published: 2007-12-27T23:00:00+00:00

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In this passage various earlier images are echoed and later images prepared. The angelic harpers and singers recall the earlier birds of paradise and the music in the graveyard-garden; the flood of music recalls the earlier flood images and prepares for the vision later of Grace rumbling through the streets of the New Jersualem; the dreamer's image of his child as a rose (in line 906) recalls the earlier image of the natural rose transformed to a "figured rose" made of pearls and prepares for the image of the risen church as a "garland"; and so on. In the final stanza of Section XV, the dreamer begs permission to ask one thing more.

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