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Period: Jan 4, 600 to Dec 31, 1400
Old English
A period where poems were the most popular form of writing. -
Apr 24, 700
Beowolf
Beowulf is part of the Anglo-Saxon period and set in Scandinavia as a herioc poem. Beowulf saves his town from the beast, Grendel. The Author is unknown. -
Apr 28, 1380
The Wife of Bath's Tale
The author is Geoffrey Chaucer.
Provides infromation about the womens role in society during that time period.
As a punishment a knight has a decision wether to live or die by proving that he knows what women most desire. -
Apr 28, 1380
The Canterbury Tales
The author is Geoffrey Chaucer.
People going around telling storys. -
Apr 30, 1400
Sir Gawain and The Green Knight
The author is unknown.
The Kings nephew battles with a green night. -
Period: Apr 30, 1485 to
Renaissance Period
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Apr 30, 1516
Utopia
The author is Thomas More,
A fictional island and the way society lives there. (thier views on things). -
Apr 30, 1570
The Nymph's Reply to the Shepherd
The author is Sir Walter Raleigh.
The shepard gets rejected because she thinks that if he does love her, the love will change like the season. The love perhaps might not last so she says no. -
Apr 30, 1570
The Passionate Shepherd to His Love
The author is Christopher Marlow.
A man describing the love he has for the woman. -
Sonnet 130
The author was William Shakespeare.
William describes the love for the woman in the poem he has for her. -
Macbeth
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Period: to
Age of Reason
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The Rime of The Ancient Mariner
The author is Samuel Taylor Coleridge.
During a wedding a salior tells a story about one of his adventures and how he lost the crew during the sail and also killing an albatross. -
Period: to
Romantic
Mostly sonnets were wrote during this time. Alot of authors wrote about the love they had for s person. -
Ozymandias
The author is Percy Shelley.
A traveler admiring statues of powerful leaders, and sees them as still powerfull no matter how long its been since they ruled. -
Ode to a Nightengale
The author was John Keats.
The author talks with melencholy and feels depressed until a nightengale, (A bird) comes around and makes him think different. -
Ode to a Grecian
The author is John Keats.
Describes designs on a Grecian urn. -
My Last Duchess
The author is Robert Browning.
The duke has a painting of his last wife hanging on the wall. He contines to tell people about her life and when she died. -
The lady of Shalott
The author is Alfred Tennyson.
Lady Shalott is cursed and traped up in a tower.
When she finally escapes, she doesn't enjoy her freedom too long before she dies. -
Period: to
Modern Period
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Preludes
The author is T.S. Eliot.
A description of the dirty city and a drunk. -
Shooting an Elaphant
The author is George Orwell.
George is a police officer and is sent out to shoot an elephant due to injuring and possibly killing other people. He struggles with having the heart to hurt it but then decides its whats best for the good of the town. -
Do Not Go Gentle into That Good Night
The author was Dylan Thomas.
The Speaker is telling his father to stay strong and not to give up so that hes able to stay alive. -
Animal Farm
The author is George Orwell.
The animals take over the farm and the humans who use to run it, because of neglection. The main purpose was for the animals not to be ruled by somebody or labored. The pigs soon ignore thier own rules and seem to act if they are now Mr. Jones.
