Scarica Medieval Ballads + Geoffrey Chaucer- Summary e più Sintesi del corso in PDF di Inglese solo su Docsity! MEDIEVAL BALLADS The ballads were anonymous narrative poems, written in short stanzas of two or four lines, rhyming abcb. There is a mixture of dialog and narration, the speaker does not introduce his personality and there is no moralizing or didactic approach. The ballads all start in media res GEORDIE is a popular ballad originated in Scotland. The ballad is about geordie, a poacher, a hunter who kills animal without permission but in the end he's caught and hanged. The poem starts with the narrator that meet Geordie's lover that is crying over the London bridge. She starts telling the story of a Geordie who need to be hanged because he stole sixteen of the King's deer. She rides to London's court with a white horse praying the judge to not hang Geordie since she's ready to lose her two children and a third one that still have to born. LORD RANDAL Lord Randal is a noble man that while he was hunting, he met is true love. She gave him Eels fried, he eats them and give his leftovers to his dogs and hawks, but after they ate them, they died. Lord Randal understands he's poisoned and he's going to die and in the ballads he explains his will such as leaving 4 cows to his mother, his gold and silver to his sister, the houses and the lands to his brother and hell and fire to his true love. THE ELFIN KNIGHTS The Elfin Knight is a ballad about this knight that wants to seduce every young woman by asking some impossible challenges. On his way he met a girl that doesn't want a casual lover, but a true one so she also ask him impossible challenges. GEOFFREY CHAUCER Geoffrey Chaucer was born about 1343, the son of a rich wine merchant in London. Geoffrey followed Edward Ill’s son to war in France where he was taken prisoner and ransomed (riscattato) by the King himself in 1360. So Chaucer grew up in close contact with the royal family and travelled from England to France. The King sent him on various missions. Between 1368 and 1378, his journeys brought him also to Italy where he became interested in Dante, Petrarch and Boccaccio. He was also a Member of Parliament for Kent. He was married with a rich lady. The year 1386 was a difficult one for Chaucer since he was dismissed from all his works and this left him without money. He began to work on The Canterbury Tales in this period. In 1389 he was appointed Clerk of the King's at Westminster. He died in 1400 (fourteen hundred) century He was the first poet to be buried in the Poet’s Corner in Westminster Abbey. The father of English literature Chaucer is regarded as the father of English literature. His language became standard English. The feature of Chaucer’s works is their variety. His poems are usually divided into three periods: the French, the Italian and the English period. The French period is so called because it includes poems modelled on French romance styles and subjects (sul modello di stili e temi del romanticism francese): e The Romaunt of the Rose e The Boke of the Duchesse
