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The Function Of Duality And Trinity In The Structure Of Piers Plowman, Mary-Jo Arn
The Function Of Duality And Trinity In The Structure Of Piers Plowman, Mary-Jo Arn
Graduate Dissertations and Theses
Dualities and trinities are everywhere in the poem, sometimes conflicting, sometimes not. They govern the poem in its largest structures, overarching the entire poem, and its smallest, often evoking an additional level of meaning in just a phrase. These groupings of two and three are not ornamental or arbitrary, but thematic; the meanings of the poem are inextricably bound up in them. It will be necessary,therefore, in what follows, to discuss meaning (theme) as much as structure. The meaning of Dobest, for instance, is dependent upon its being the third part of a trinity. The other two parts must in …
A Rhetorical Analysis Of Deor, The Ruin And The Wanderer, Gary I. Rubin
A Rhetorical Analysis Of Deor, The Ruin And The Wanderer, Gary I. Rubin
Graduate Dissertations and Theses
With Bartlett and Huppé on which to rely, I will deal with three Old English poems: Deor, The Ruin, and The Wanderer. It is my belief that if we subject these poems to the kinds of analysis suggested by Bartlett and Huppé, we will be able to see that rhetoric is a determining factor in theme and structure. The elusive nature of the poems, their seeming illogic at times, may well be explained by the fact that the audience did indeed know the theme, the message, of the poem and that the delight of the poem was …