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While King Arthur’s court is feasting and partying in celebration of New Years, a strange figure, referred to only as the Green Knight, makes a surprise visit. He requests that the group’s leader or any other brave member of the court challenge him in a beheading game. He will allow whoever accepts the challenge to strike him with his own axe, but on one condition. The challenger must find the Green Knight in exactly one year to receive a blow in return.
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After being sentenced to death, a knight has to reclaim his honor by knowing what women desire the most. Author- Geoffrey Chaucer
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Author-Geoffrey Chaucer. A bunch of people travel and share stories.
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A man is in love with a lady named Barbara. After he gets rejected he dies of a broken heart. -
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Author- Christopher Marlow A shepherd explains his love for a woman.
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Author- William Shakespeare Shakespeare talks about the qualities of a woman he is in love with.
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Author- William Shakespeare Macbeth and Banquo are met by three strange witches bearing prophetic greetings. Macbeth is told that he will become king. He seeks the crown regardless of the consequences.
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Author- Sir Walter Raleigh A reply to Christopher Marlowe's orginial poem.
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Author- from King James Bible The Lord leads people to salvation.
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Author- Andrew Marvell The speaker compliments a woman. He also says time will go faster for those in love.
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Author- Andrew Marvell
Milton talks about Hell and gives reasons why God allows people to suffer. -
Author- Alexander Pope
At a party, a man cuts a lock of hair off of a lady's head. -
Author- Jonathan Swift
Swift gives an outragous solution to the homeless problem, eating and selling them. -
Author- Tomas Gray
The writer sits on a country churchyard and watches. -
Author- Samuel Taylor Coleridge A sailor tells about how he lost crew and was punished for killing an Albatross.
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Author- George Gordon, Lord Byron
Byron compares a woman to the night. -
A romantic novel written by Jane Austen.
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Author- John Keats
Keats wants to commit suicide. After he hears a Nightengale he is cheered up. -
No matter how important a person is, time makes people forget about them.
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Author- Percy Bysshe Shelley life always gets better
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Author- Alfred, Lord Tennyson A woman is cursed and can not go out of her tower and when she finally leaves it, she dies.
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Author- Alfred, Lord Tennyson A war vetean wants to continue his adventurous days after he returns from war.
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Author- Charles Dickens
Children are taught only facts because they are "wanted in life". -
Author- Robert Browning
Browning talks about a picture of his love. -
Author- Thomas Hardy Someone thinks they are being visted by a person, but only a dog comes to their grave to bury its bone.
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Author- William Butler Yeats
The author wants to remind their old love of the times they shared, and how she will miss them when she gets old. -
Author- T. S. Eliot
The author describes a city. -
Author- George Orwell
A police officer in Burma must choose between killing an elephant or saving it and looking foolish infront of the natives. -
Author- Virginia Woolf
People don't look at the house when they walk by because they are too curious. -
Author- Dylan Thomas
The author wants his father to fight death. -
Author- George Orwell
Animals that take over a farm. -
The poem begins with the Wanderer asking the Lord for understanding and compassion during his exile at sea. He cannot avoid going to sea, because this life is his fate.
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A woman is seperated from her husband.
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Beowulf, comes to the aid of Danish king Hrothgar who's kingdom is attacked by a hideous monster named Grendel. Beowulf comes from his land to Denmark and battles the monster, and kills him. Then, Grendel's mother, comes to avenge her son's death. Beowulf kills her. He becomes King of the Geats and rules for 50 years. He defeats the dragon.
