Edmund Spenser. Faerie Queene, Resúmenes de Análisis de Textos Literarios

¡Descarga Edmund Spenser. Faerie Queene y más Resúmenes en PDF de Análisis de Textos Literarios solo en Docsity! Edmund Spenser's "The Faerie Queene" Edmund Spenser, (born 1552/53, London, England—died January 13, 1599, London), English poet whose long allegorical poem The Faerie Queene is one of the greatest in the English language. It was written in what came to be called the Spenserian stanza, According to Spenser's Spenserian stanza, verse form that consists of eight iambic pentameter lines followed by a ninth line of six iambic feet (an alexandrine); the rhyme scheme is ababbcbcc. The first eight lines produce an effect of formal unity, while the hexameter completes the thought of the stanza. The Faerie Queene recounts the narratives of a few knights, each addressing a specific temperance, on their missions for the Faerie Queene, Gloriana. Redcrosse is the knight of Holiness, and should crush both religious mistake and the winged serpent of duplicity to free the guardians of Una ("truth"). Guyon is the knight of Temperance, who should annihilate the physical allurements of Acrasia's Bower of Bliss. Britomart, a lady in mask as a male knight, addresses Chastity; she should track down her dearest and win his heart. Artegall, the knight of Justice, should protect the woman Eirene from an unfair subjugation. Cambell and Triamond, the knights of Friendship, should help each other with regards to different women's honor. At long last, Calidore, the knight of Courtesy, should prevent the Blatant Beast from spreading its libelous toxin all through the domain. Each mission is a moral story, and the knight given the journey addresses an individual's inward development in that specific temperance. Such development occurs through different preliminaries, some of which the knights come up short, showing how self- awareness is a battle requiring the guide of different powers and temperances to make it complete. In this poem, the utilization of archaic language was Spenser attempting to adjust himself to Chaucer and putting himself inside a direction of building English public abstract history. Now I'm going to talk about the characters of this sonnet: Arthur: The focal saint of the sonnet, in spite of the fact that he doesn't assume the main part in its activity. Arthur is looking for the Faerie Queene, whom he found in a dream. The "genuine" Arthur was a lord of the Britons in the fifth or sixth century A.D., yet the little verifiable data we have about him is overpowered by his legend.