Lancelot Compare And Contrast

These two stories written about Lancelot have many similarities and differences that are a result of the time period in which they were written. The two are similar in the way that they portray Lancelot as a tremendous character as apart of the Arthurian legend and a great knight of the Round Table. They differ in the way that they describe Lancelot’s relationship with women and more directly his relationship with Guinevere and Elaine of Astolat. In “Lancelot” the writer focuses less on Lancelot’s heroic status and more on the fact that Lancelot had an extramarital affair with Queen Guinevere. Robinson focuses more on the romantic part of the story because the period in which he wrote the poem, the 1920s, is famous for love stories. The “roaring