Troilus: Manly Man, or Big, Sobbing Girl?
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annundrielEleven people in class this morning. Improvement!
We're reading Chaucer's Troilus and Criseyde in Masculinity and as time consuming as Middle English is, it's actually quite fun to stumble through the lines. Today we even had to go around the room and read bits aloud after a brief lesson in the rough rules of pronunciation.
The double sorwe of Troilus to tellen,
That was the kyng Priamus of Troye,
In lovynge, how his ayentures fellen
Fro wo to wele, and after out of joie,
My purpos is, er that I parte of ye.
Thesiphone, thow help me for t'endite
Thise woful vers, that wepen as I write.
I always think I'm going to struggle and hate ME, but it always pulls me in within the first few lines. I say always and really only mean that one other time ME was forced on me (Canterbury Tales). There's just something so, hmm, enjoyable to me about reading it out loud, figuring out what each word means, and piecing together the overall meaning of the sentence and stanza. Like a puzzle, and I've always loved puzzles. So I love getting to the end of a line and having that moment of, "Oh!"
Basically, it's a big dorky/geeky/nerdy literature thing for me.
Unfortunately, this dorky/geeky/nerdy thing does not transfer over to my Yeats paper. Bah.
We're reading Chaucer's Troilus and Criseyde in Masculinity and as time consuming as Middle English is, it's actually quite fun to stumble through the lines. Today we even had to go around the room and read bits aloud after a brief lesson in the rough rules of pronunciation.
The double sorwe of Troilus to tellen,
That was the kyng Priamus of Troye,
In lovynge, how his ayentures fellen
Fro wo to wele, and after out of joie,
My purpos is, er that I parte of ye.
Thesiphone, thow help me for t'endite
Thise woful vers, that wepen as I write.
I always think I'm going to struggle and hate ME, but it always pulls me in within the first few lines. I say always and really only mean that one other time ME was forced on me (Canterbury Tales). There's just something so, hmm, enjoyable to me about reading it out loud, figuring out what each word means, and piecing together the overall meaning of the sentence and stanza. Like a puzzle, and I've always loved puzzles. So I love getting to the end of a line and having that moment of, "Oh!"
Basically, it's a big dorky/geeky/nerdy literature thing for me.
Unfortunately, this dorky/geeky/nerdy thing does not transfer over to my Yeats paper. Bah.
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