Write a brief essay on Middle English alliterative poetry.

Write a brief essay on Middle English alliterative poetry.

After the Norman Conquest the French Influence rendered great impact on literature and rhymed verse gained ascendancy. It is after the victories of King Edward – III in France a national self consciousness as well as a new enthusiasm for the English tongue becomes prominent. In schools and colleges and law courts English started to displace the French. In 1362 parliament was opened in English language. As the result of all these old English verse form revives again in the Middle English period. Roughly between the year 1350 and 1400 there appears a number of poem which bring an unbroken development of old English all iterative verse. In colossians manuscript we get four remarkable poems written in west midland dialect. They are ‘Pearl’, ‘Purity’, ‘Patience’ and ‘Sir Gawain and the Green Knight’. It is supposed that these poems are written by the same poet.

Pearl:-It is a poem of 1200 lines. The total poem is divided into 110 stanzas of 12 lines each. It is a kind of dream poem. The poet has lost his two years old daughter. One august day the poet falls asleep on the grave and in dream he meets with his dead daughter dressed in white with ornaments of pearl. The poet wants to cross the river in order to unite with her but she says that after the fall of Adam the river only can be crossed after death. His daughter consoles him and asks her to surrender the God. His dream breaks and the poet rises having new spiritual realization. The poem is takes both as an allegory and as an 

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