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Beowulf was told in Old English between the years 500 to 1100. In the poem, Beowulf, a geat, goes to Hrothgar to help him out by defeating Grendel. Grendel escapes to his den, but Beowulf has clearly won the fight. He goes to the creature's cave and discovers that the creature's mother is there, so he kills her with a mighty sword and takes Grendel's head as a trophy. Shortly after, Beowulf returns home and eventually becomes king, and kills a dragon with Wiglaf's help but dies from wounds.
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The date of the poem is not for sure but is between the years 1380 to 1400. At an inn in Southwark, the narrator starts to travel with twenty-nine other people to the shrine of St. Thomas Becket in Canterbury. Then the poem goes into great description of the many people traveling. After that it is decided that each person shall tell two tells and the Host will judge. Whoever tells the best story will have his meal paid for by the rest.
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It was written between the years 1380 and 1400.It is a poem about a knight who raped a women.He is going to be killed but King Athur's wife and other women in the court decide that if the knight can figure out ,within a year,what women want most in the world,his life will be spared.He meets an old woman on his last day, and she supplies him with the answer that women want to be in charge of their husbands.The old woman then marries the man,and he learns his lesson.She becomes beautiful and good.
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It was wrote between the years of 1405 and 1471.At Arthur's castle a Green Knight appears during a New Year's Eve party.He challenges someone to hit him with his axe, and he will hit them back in a years time.Sir Gawain decides to do it for Arthur.Sir Gawain travels to the castle and is told that he must give whatever he gets, but does not tell about the girdle.
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1625
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Dramas came into play, but even with writers creating dramas, they still wrote poetry.
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It was written between the years of 1552 and 1599.It describes how Spenser's girlfriend is everything to him, and how he made the poem to please her.
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It was written between the years of 1554 and 1586.The poem describes a man comparing himself with the moon in the sense of his lovesickness.He talks to the moon and asks how is love up there and how are the women?
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It was written between the years 1554 and 1586.It is a poem about how sleep is the most important thing for a person.It rejuvinates them and everyone has the right to sleep, but he cannot sleep because all he can think about is Stella.
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It was written between the years 1564 and 1593. It is a poem about a man begging a women to be with him and he will give her everything he possibly can.
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It was written between the years 1554 and 1618.It is a poem that replies to The Passionate Shepherd to His Love.It is the woman saying that the things do not matter, but what does is that youth and love do not last.If they did she would be with him.
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1798
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People started questioning whether everything was right in their society and other things in their lives.
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It was written between the years 1572 and 1631.
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It was written between the years 1572 and 1631. Every human under God is connected.Also, everyone will eventually die, but if they believe in God they can make it to heaven.
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It was written between the years 1572 and 1637.His son has just died at the age of only seven and he is saying goodbye.Then he envies his son for not having to with the pain of living.Finally, he says his son is his best poetry.
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It was written between the years 1621 and 1678.A man is telling his mistress that if there were only more time to admire her.Then he tells her that they need to be together because they will die soon, and then they will not have each other.He then realizes that they cannot make time stop but can live in the moment.
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It was written between the years 1591 and 1674.Do what you can while you are alive because before you know it you will be dead.
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1832; Emraced Nature
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It was written between 1757 and 1827.He asks if the lamb knows that God made him.Also,God is a lamb and the animals are his creation.
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In the poem, a sailor speaks of how he killed an albatross, which cost him his crew and made his life sad.
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During this period, authors mostly wrote about the beauty of nature.
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It was written between the years 1757 and 1827.Who would make the scary tiger?Did God make you, just as he made the lamb?
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John Keats wants to commit suicide, but hears a beautiful bird and realizes that life is better than what he thought.
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The speaker is praising a skylark and even calls it a blithe spirit, which makes it not a bird to the speaker.The speaker loves the bird so much because of its beautiful song.Even though there is happiness in the world there is also sadness.
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1901
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Novels became the most important works of this period.These novels often dealt with love and hard work.
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Cursed to stay in her tower for the rest of her life, a woman can only see the outside world through a mirror, so she decides to go outside and ends up dying.
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He says he will always remember his great friend and that is why he made the poem
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A man who has been in battles all his life returns home, and is dissapointed with his boring life.
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Mr. Gradgrind believes that children should only learn facts and nothing else.There is a new student called Sissy, but he refuses to call her by a nickname, so he calls her Cecilia.Most of the time he calls the children by numbers.Facts are all that are taught.
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In the poem, Browning speaks of a picture of his former wife to another man.
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People began to believe in experimentation and individualism.Also, during the postmodern period people began to go against enlightenment and moderist thinking.
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Present
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He was born on September 11, 1885.He did not believe ways other people believed in politics and morality, which made people question his writing.His first published novel was Sons and Lovers in 1913.In 1916, he published The Rainbow.He died on March 2, 1930.
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He was born on February 2, 1882.He became a writer even though his family wanted him to be a priest.He published Dubliners in 1914, which were a collection of short stories.He also published A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man in 1916.He died on January 13, 1941.
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She was born on January 25,1882.She was the pioneer of the stream-of-consciousness technique.She came from a Victorian family.One of her first novels was Jacob's Room in 1922.Three more of her novels are Mrs. Dalloway, To the Lighthouse, and The Waves.She died on March 28,1941.
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He was born on October 27, 1914.He had a dark side.Portrait of the Artist as a Young Dog was one of his first collections published in 1940.He is best known for prose: Under Milkwood and A Child's Christmas in Wales, a memoir.He struggled with alcoholism most of his life.He died on November 9,1953.
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He was born on September 26,1888.He led the way for Modernism.He used allusions in his poetry.He went to Harvard University.A few of his published works are Prufrock and Other Observations, The Wasteland, and "he Hollow Men."He also wrote "Preludes,"and "Journey of the Magi."He died on January 4,1965.
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It was written between the years 1792 and 1822.Nothing lasts forever, not even the memory of a King.
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1485
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The Seafarer is part of the Exeter Book that is a collection of manuscripts. The exact date of when the book was created is not for sure but it happened between 871 A.D. and 899. The Seafarer is a poem that talks of a mariner's lonely life. The mariner always seems to go back to the sea no matter how depressed he becomes. The sea calls to him more than any other worldly pleasure. He knows that all men's fates ar e to die, but says a man should believe in God to make it to heaven.
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Poems were a main form in these periods and some even created epic poems that would tell wondrous stories.
