THEY ASK ME FOR VERSES You bid me now to strike the lyre‚ That mute and torn so long has lain: And yet I cannot wake the strain‚ Nor will the Muse one note inspire! Coldly it shakes in accenta dire‚ As if my soul itself to wring‚ And when its sound seems but to fling A jest at its own low lament; So in sad isolation pent‚ My soul can neither feel nor sing. There was a time-ah‚ ’t is too true - But that time long ago has past - When upon me the Muse had cast Indulgent smile and
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harvest. Pilgrims and Puritans who began emigrating from England in the 1620s and 1630s carried the tradition of Days of Fasting and Days of Thanksgiving with them to New England. Several days of Thanksgiving were held in early New England history that have been identified as the "First Thanksgiving"‚ including Pilgrim holidays in Plymouth in 1621 and 1623‚ and a Puritan holiday in Boston in 1631. According to historian Jeremy Bangs‚ director of the Leiden American Pilgrim Museum‚ the Pilgrims may have
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“The Pardoner’s Tale:” A Sermon of Morality and Corruption The art of persuasion proves to be an important aspect within “The Canterbury Tales” because it is this art that a pilgrim needs to exemplify in order to be deemed the best storyteller. Not only is this art the driving force behind the overarching plot of the poem but it is also an essential facet for characters within the tales so they are able to provide a complex and thought-provoking story. Understanding that the storytellers
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the virtuous are measured. Like Shakespeare‚ Chaucer in the Prologue has painted life as he has seen it and has left it to others to draw the moral. He does not project his likes and dislikes and completely effaces himself from his account of the pilgrims and their stories. He thereby achieves the objectivity that is the most important thing in both novel and drama‚ and the Prologue contains seeds of both these literary gnres. His aim was to give “the truth‚ the whole truth and nothing but the
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According to the oxford dictionary a pilgrimage is journey in which one takes of either moral or spiritual significance. Those who embark on a pilgrimage are known as a pilgrim and is usually a journey to either a holy place or shrine of importance significance for that person. During the Middle Ages life was dominated by wealth‚ order‚ class‚ state and most importantly religion. Religion played an important role in daily life. It effected the way people behaved and to what they believed. It is difficult
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England a religiously tolerant country when persecution of the Puritans began. The turmoil caused actually paved the way for so many immigrants to come and colonize in America‚ thus forming the Pilgrim colony. The first English Colony in New England was founded by the Pilgrims. A simple people‚ the Pilgrims‚ also known as the Separatists‚ sought after religious freedom. Soon‚ people began to question the Pilgrim’s authority. In order to reassure them‚ William Bradford drafted an agreement called
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realities of the New World. Author John Smith‚ a pilgrim who arrived in the Americas‚ writes a description of the new land. In "A Description of New England" he shows what a wonderful world of vast food and pleasure await. William Bradford‚ another pilgrim who arrived in Plymouth on the coast of Massachusetts‚ gives his take on the early settling of the new land. In "Of Plymouth Plantation" he writes a description of what really happened their‚ how the pilgrims actually lived. In "A Description of New
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Katie Paschal After reading the Canterbury Tales and the General Prologue‚ I learned a lot about all of the Pilgrims. The pilgrim that I found the most interesting was the Pardoner‚ which is why I chose to use him for my project. The Pardoner worked for the Church and was despised by many churchgoers. In return for making donations to charitable enterprises‚ the Pardoner was licensed by the Pope to sell papal indulgences. People would give money in exchange for pardons and the Pardoner would
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in his poems. ‘Enterprise’ is an allegory of human condition on this planet and of the frequent efforts‚ failure and frustrations to which man is subject by the very nature of earthly life. The poet describes a spiritual pilgrimage where each pilgrim faces difficulties and disillusionment along the way. Thus‚ in the ‘Enterprise’ a group of people undertake a journey moved by noble aspirations‚ but it all ends in failures and frustrations as is usually the case with human attempts at some
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about anything to receive money for himselfThis story concerns three young men who spend much of their time in revelry. The tale is set in Flanders‚ and the Pardoner during the telling of the tale‚ tends to drift from the plot and sermonize to the Pilgrims. On this particular day as the three men indulge in gambling and drunkenness‚ they hear a funeral passing outside the Inn. They ask a servant who has died. He responds by saying that it is a friend of the three men who was stabbed in the back
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