Sir Gawain and the Green Knight

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What people feel or think can be suggested by what they do. Comment on this in connection whith line twelve.

Spurn: show disdain or centempt / kick, trample
Parry: evade, dodge, to ward off

-> They are scared and/or disgusted by it.

In what way does the last line of this stanza point forward to the next stanza? Can you guess the general contents of the next stanza? Why is it important that there whould be such connections in a long poem like Sir Gawain and the Green Knight.

Next stanza: The Green Knight's Speech

Connections: Stucture and Oral tradition

Who wrote Sir Gawain and the Green Knight?

"Pearl Poet" / Unknown

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