allonsytosherwoodforest:skeleton-richard:shredsandpatches:skeleton-richard:@the-golden-ghost I will
allonsytosherwoodforest:skeleton-richard:shredsandpatches:skeleton-richard:@the-golden-ghost I will when it comes time for papers/exams. @shredsandpatches senpai… understands? (Please forget I said that). We’re just reading Book 1. I’m enjoying it when I understand it, it’s just hard. And we’re going at a rate of two cantos every three days (The class is on English lit in general, starting with Beowulf, which I managed to pick up on the Old English). I’d say my prof is crazy except I know she isn’t.I’ve long held that the Faerie Queene essentially teaches you to read itself – it’s a very self-aware and self-conscious poem. Book 1 is difficult, I think, both because it’s early in the poem so you’re not used to the deliberately archaic language, and because it’s very much about difficulties of interpretation (it’s vitally important that one of Redcrosse’s first enemies is Errour). Because Spenser is writing a characteristically Protestant epic, he gives the character representing Holiness a series of battles that are founded on the difficulty, in a belief system built on sola fide/sola scriptura justification, of understanding what’s good and true when it can look almost identical to what isn’t. Which can make it really easy to get lost in: it took me years to learn to appreciate Spenser, and I don’t think I could fully do so until I’d actually read the entire FQ and didn’t have that particular peak to scale again!That’s a really interesting way of looking at it! I need to keep that in mind. With the language, I don’t hate it as virulently as did his contemporaries because I get what he’s going for, but when there’s a feminine “-e” ending do lines or words I want to read them in Middle English so that’s annoying. Curse you Spenser. With me not getting the Protestant allegory, that’s frustrating because I’m also a religious studies minor (sadly we don’t habe it as a major) and I’m rather obviously big into Christianity. So it’s like… I should get this. I keep having to remind myself that I’m new at this, and every time i make a mistake about the Middle Ages or don’t understand something I’m reading is because I don’t know it yet, and I can’t be expected to know everything. I guess… I’m just not used to being new to a subject. i’d get my dick wet in the faerie queene every dayHannah are you okayAlso will you worship Una’s ass? -- source link