Essay Comparing Sir Gawain And The Green Knight

No works by two different authors will ever be the same, even if both authors are discussing the exact same topic. The reason why is that each author comes from a different background and each has their own opinion on how things should be because of their background. These opinions are based off of things such as their culture, which make up a huge part of how they write. An author in England will most likely have a different literary technique and preferred genre than someone who was born and raised in let’s say Germany. No one style of writing is better than the other, if everyone in the world wrote the same way literature wouldn’t be as interesting as it is today. There would be no desire to go and read someone else’s work as it would be a mere copy and
Marie’s rhyme scheme and poem structure in “Lanval” is called octosyllabic structure, which is a pair of rhymed lines containing eight syllables each. However, due to Marie’s story originally being written in French the rhyme scheme doesn’t duplicate well in the English language: Whoever has received knowledge And eloquence in speech from God Should not be silent or secretive But demonstrate it willingly (Lanval 1-4)
In “Sir Gawain and the Green Knight” being written in the 14th century there is a strong sense of alliteration is this story “In all vestments he revealed himself veritably verdant! / From his belt hooks and buckle to the baubles and gems” (161-162). Now like Maries story, this one has an unusual rhyme and form consisting of a stanza with a set of five rhymed lines called “the bob and wheel.” The “bob” is a connecting line, which is also the first line, only having two or three syllables. The next four lines called the “wheel” have 3 stressed syllables. An example of this would be It seemed Amazement seized their minds, No soul had ever seen A knight of such a kind— Entirely emerald green.