Tag Archives: Sir Gawain and the Green Knight

Sir Gawain and the Winter Solstice

“Sir Gawain and the Green Knight” pits paganism’s Winter Solstice against Christmas. But reconciliation is possible.

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Beowulf’s Lessons in How to Grieve

Hamlet, Beowulf, and Sir Gawain and the Green Knight each show us powerful ways to grieve.

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The Sleepy Sound of a Tea-Time Tide

We’re currently visiting Anglesey, Wales and can thus appreciate John Betjeman’s idyllic poem about the bay.

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On Proust and Living Life to the Fullest

As I read Proust’s “Swann’s Way,” I imagined what it must have meant to a friend, who read it when he was dying.

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Reading Proust before Dying

A dying friend decided to read, in his last months, Proust’s “In Search of Lost Time.” As I read it, I’m beginning to understand why.

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The Green Knight Film? Ugh!

“Sir Gawain and the Green Knight” is a profound meditation on death and a comic masterpiece. The film about it? Not so much.

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Sir Gawain and Classroom Silences

Silence in the classroom can feel unbearable. Like Camelot silence in the face of the Green Knight.

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Summer Solstice Unleashes Dark Forces

Early works of Brit Lit used summer solstice imagery to explore clashes between Christian England and its pagan past.

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Facing the Cold

Imagine being a knight in armor (Sir Gawain) and getting pounded by the recent snow and freezing temperatures.

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