Thursday, February 2, 2012
Sir Walter Scott's "Marmion"
Sir Walter Scott uses much chivalric and knightly imagery in the excerpts from "Marmion." The form is also very strict and formal. Lines of iambic trimeter and tetrameter are present in the eleventh and thirteenth sections, while the twelfth section is full of anapestic tetrameter. I can't see the whole poem in its entirety, but just these given sections show that this is a work of much complexity and variation. The content is interesting since it takes fictional and historical figures and romanticizes them to make a political statement about Scott's time.
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