[ SECRET POST #2979 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #2979 ⌋

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Comments

Re: Classic literature thread

[(Anonymous)]

Ahh Gawain and the Green Knight. So much homoeroticism, so much.

And not directly because of that reason, I think it's one of the better Arthurian stories. Follows more of a plot and doesn't go off into pointless subplots, actually thematically ties together.

Re: Classic literature thread

[(Anonymous)]

I loved it. It was one of the first poems to introduce me to alliterative verse (which is my all-time favorite).

We had a whole unit on it and the parallels between the lady and the green knight's hunts. It's just such a great poem. It made me want to learn its dialect so I can read the original.

Re: Classic literature thread

[(Anonymous)]

I actually wrote a paper for my Arthurian literature class about how the Green Knight facilitates his wife's seductions, so that in turn, Gawain is forced to kiss him - and that had Gawain given in and had sex with his wife, logically, Gawain would be forced to have sex with the Green Knight. As they're playing that game of give and receive, and all, and thus by definition, Gawain's kisses to Bertilak/Green Knight have to be sexual, not courtly.

The original is not the easiest Middle English but many versions will give you footnotes for the confusing words. I have the Penguin Classics version of the compilation from the "Pearl Poet".