Discourse Chronicle

Ironic, because the book is all about image: the vision of the Green Knight when he arrives amid the Yuletide revels; the image of perfection that Gawain’s shield represents, a pentangle on one side and Mary on the other; the picture of the perfect chivalrous knight that Gawain finds burdensome when he’s face to face with an avid reader of romances and doesn’t feel up to the role; and the picture of heroism that Gawain measures himself against — and finds he is lacking. -K. A. Laity

[Kate is referring to the cover of Sir Gawain and the Green Knight translated by W.S. Merwin and how it relates with the story. BK]

category: Literacy, Poetry, Rhetoric and Poetics