anyone remember high school English?

[Briar Rose 7457]

who wrote this:

Whanne that April with his shoures sote
The droughte of March hath perced to the rote.
And smale foules maken melodie,
That slepen alle night with open eye,
So priketh hem nature in hir corages;
Than longen folk to gon on pilgrimages

 

[Blueeyes101817]

sounds familiar..i believe its the cantebary tales..S. R. Voelker

 

[Maleficent13]

Blueeyes is on the right track...it's the prologue to the Canterbury Tales by Chaucer...

 

[Gwene65]

I hated the poetry part of English.
I'll take a horrible stab at it though.

I cannot even remember her name. The girl who always wrote so dark and I always felt she wanted to die. I think she even died young. Someone help me. What was her name?

I'm sure I am wrong anyway.

 

[tkd lisa]

Gwene, are you thinking about Emily Dickinson?

 

[CheshireVal]

Canterbury Tales, Chaucer

Took a Chaucer class in college.

 

[Briar Rose 7457]

Originally posted by Gwene65
I hated the poetry part of English.
I'll take a horrible stab at it though.

I cannot even remember her name. The girl who always wrote so dark and I always felt she wanted to die. I think she even died young. Someone help me. What was her name?

I'm sure I am wrong anyway.

Sylvia Plath? The Bell Jar. she committed suicide.

 

[mickeyboat]

OMG!

Did you have to memorize that too?

It's amazing what you remember from high school oh these many years later.

Denae

 

[Robinrs]

I actually remember it from college, I was an Eng Comp Lit major. I LOVED the Canterbury Tales, mostly because one of the tales had my family name on it!

But, of course, my favorite was the Miller's Tale, which is my ex's name, mostly because it was so rauchy and made us all giggle!

 

[Briar Rose 7457]

the wife of Bath -- 7 husbands she had at church door.

 

[gdulaney]

Senior yr of high school....Mrs R's class....and YES, we had to memorize it too.

Ginny

 

[joeokw]

I thought the Canterberry Tales were a riot. We read it in 11th grade and we had a cool English teacher and when we figured out all the stuff that was going on during the Reeves Tale, the Miller Tales, and others we laughed and thoght it was cool to talk about those " forbiden " topics.

 

[Rock'n Robin]

I teach HS English so I live it every day. Sorry BR, the Wife of Bath had 5 husbands, not 7. I also like the Miller's tale--proof that "fart humor" is many centuries old!
Robin M.

 

[shortbun]

Did your teacher speak Auld English? Mine did. It was beautiful
to listen to. She read us "Beowulf" that way too! We studied
both extensively. I don't thinks kids do this anymore, it's a shame
to lose that connection with literature.

 

[BobbinWeez]

One of my college profs gave us extra credit if we memorized the first 18 lines of the prologue of the Canterbury Tales (in the Old English) and could recite them to her. It was pretty hard but several people did it.

 

[Serena]

LOL, poetry was not my thing, I don't remember any of it. Creative writing was what I was best in.

 

[Lanshark]

Maybe if you post the Cliff Notes version I might recognize it