Wimple

It was a dark, windy day. Ralph Marx, the talented, sophisticated young man was a Menshevik in Russia. Moscow, to be exact. Ralph was on a mission. His mission was simple, yet dangerous. He was ordered by the C.I.A. to exterminate the best Lacrosse player in the universe; Cinnamon Cider. Ralph was staying in a hotel on the east side of Moscow. It was not a very run down motel, but it also was not fancy. It was best that he was not staying in a nice, five star hotel, simply because that would just

The Windhover Explication Gerard Manley Hopkins, “The Windhover,” has been described as one of the most challenging poems to explicate, so with my limited knowledge I will attempt to do this correctly and disagree with professors who have studied this poem far longer than I have. The breaking of the word “kingdom” between line 1 and 2 is meaningful. The falcon is described as both morning’s minion and king. If the break were after -dom there would have been less exaltation of the falcon, which Hopkins

two cowls, a scapular for work, shoes and stockings. The extra tunic allowed for washing and night-time wear, as the Cistercian monk slept in his habit. Some monks would also wear a cross upon a chain around their necks. Nuns had two habits, two wimples and veils, a scapular for work, shoes and stockings. A nun's habit, tied around the waist with a cloth or leather belt. Hair shirts - some extreme nuns imposed suffering on themselves by wearing hair shirts under their habits. The rank of people

During the middle ages, clothing and fashion were a representation of how someone lived. Each social class had clothing very different from one another. Every clothing item was specific to individual groups of people; men, women, rich, poor and the church. Materials people’s clothing were made out of could show if someone had a lot of money or had a little supply of money. Medieval Europe spent a large amount of time making their clothing and presenting it to show who they were and where they

Assignment 1: Poetry Part A: 1. T.S. Eliot’s poem “Preludes” showcases how modern life can be quite lonely. The poem is written using free verse, which may have been used to help the author explain his deep thoughts in detail to us; the readers. The rhyme pattern used in the first stanza is end rhyme; for example, the author uses many words which end in similar sounding endings; such as, “passageways-days, wraps-scraps, stamps-lamps.” Eliot may have been using this specific rhyme pattern in order

There is no doubt many metaphorical meanings that critics can take from the “The Windhover” by Gerard Manley Hopkins. With that in mind, I will focus on finding the correct linguistic interpretation of the poem. In the past, authors of scholarly articles of the poem have seemed to downplay the self-reflective portion of the poem where Hopkins refers to his own “hidden heart.” There has also been much disagreement over the sequence “dapple-dawn-drawn,” and multitudes of debates on the interpretation

The Middle Ages was a society based on well-structured and well-defined classes. Once you were born into one class of the society, you belonged to that class for the rest of your life and there was little no chances of improving your status. These classes in order from high to low were King, Nobles, Clergy and Peasants. The Clergy were the religious people in the middle ages and the peasants were mainly farmers to the land owned by the lord. Clergy ranked up with the higher classes while the peasants

a place of hope and charity. The Prioress, who took the vow of poverty and charity seemed to care about her appearance and valued animals over people. This is what Chaucer found satirical about her role as a head nun. “Right decorous her pleated wimple was/Her nose was fine;

The French epic, the Song of Roland has a very well-known historical culture. This would be the culture of the early Crusades. This includes the art, music, clothes, entertainment and society. Some of this culture is actually seen today. The art of this time consisted of medieval art. This includes the Romanesque and Carolingian art. These two types of art both have a good connection to the book in the connection with the time they both came about. One style was created in the time that the

In early England, women were required to wear certain clothes, such as corsets to flatten the breasts or hood or wimple depending on married status. A wife was to be completely obedient to her husband, and if she was not, it was completely lawful, and encouraged, to beat her. Women had absolutely no rights or chance to be an individual or independent from men. Women