Comments on: Sir Gawain

By: Sunny

Sunny — Wed, 18 Feb 2009 22:06:36 +0000

Just had to thank Thomas above for what he wrote. It’s easy to criticize something with no bearing on its purpose.

By: Thomas Rodgers

Thomas Rodgers — Thu, 20 Sep 2007 15:44:38 +0000

Wait a minute, oh Miss High-and-Mighty Katherine of the Bitchbane clan. Your trashing of this work does no one credit. Your point dealing with modern translation can be addressed to the editors of the Norton Anthologies, a RECOGNIZED literary leader in all things written. As for depth of insight into unpacking…Have you considered you have no idea as to whom this essay was written? Audience analysis is a critical part of the writing process and you as a phantom reader bear no right to subjugate such a critical and hasty response to this analysis. I enjoyed the writing style, I found fault in some things and praise in others. I am pleased that it inspired other fledgling writers to grow- as noted by the responses in comments above. If you find pleasure in deconstructing the writer along with the work, then the fault lies solely in you. You alone, my dear, are the worst off for such hasty and helpless accusations. What a better world it would be if we were encouraged to grow and thrive than to tear down and destroy.

By: Katharine

Katharine — Wed, 09 May 2007 12:31:11 +0000

I thought it was an awful essay. Though actually, to define it as an essay is extremely kind. It’s just plot summary, written for effect. Where’s the close-text analysis? How do your ideas specifically relate to the text? Don’t just assume that it can be ‘made modern’ like this – your essay is based on a Medieval manuscript alliterative poem, treat it as such. Why do you ignore its historical context? Why do you keep reiterating that one quotation, which you haven’t even bothered to unpack? Why do you quote that one quotation in modern, rather than middle, English? It’s not helpful, it’s lazy, and it just fails on all counts to engage with the poem itself.
This essay lacks any point, any thesis, any statement of intent. What the bloody hell are you actually achieving with such loose and airy musing? It’s not a good essay, it’s a very bad case of unstructured waffle.

By: Bethany

Bethany — Tue, 05 Dec 2006 18:59:07 +0000

I am writing an essay about the thoughts on man during this time period compared to current day society. Could I have all your information so I can cite part of your essay.

Thanks

By: Rochelle Block

Rochelle Block — Tue, 31 Oct 2006 13:01:33 +0000

I am writing a position paper on whether Gawain was immoral for using the green girdle. I would greatly appreciate your permission to reference a few quotes from this, and I would like your credentials to give you proper credit. Also, if you have any thoughts you would like to add, that would be very appreciated. Thank you.

By: John the student

John the student — Mon, 24 Apr 2006 18:20:14 +0000

Nice usage of language. Several structural/conceptual problems. Where’s the thesis? You aren’t defending anything or arguing anything. In the last line, when discussing his two venial lies (very well put!) I feel like you missed out on the underlieing message. The point is that a hero can not compromise. That is the message. I don’t understand, is it a plot summary? Is it a critical arguement? Is it a thesis driven opinion paper? I don’t get it, the language and opinions are there, just not the structure.

By: Rushpal

Rushpal — Sun, 12 Mar 2006 18:23:05 +0000

just to put it simply, BEAUTIFUL

By: Sam

Sam — Mon, 27 Feb 2006 02:36:28 +0000

Good Job. thanks for the help pal!

By: Josh Parker

Josh Parker — Wed, 08 Feb 2006 22:58:58 +0000

I am a senior in high school and would like to use your essay to help write a research paper that can determine if I graduate or not. I was wondering if you could e-mail me your credentials, so that I might give complete credit to you or whoever it is that deserves it. All help is much appreciated. Thank you.

By: Octavia McCoy

Octavia McCoy — Thu, 05 Jan 2006 22:58:49 +0000

Thanks for writing this it really helped me get a understanding of the poem because its not easy reading to follow.

By: Daphne

Daphne — Sat, 10 Dec 2005 09:00:18 +0000

great essay!!!

By: hanco

hanco — Sat, 05 Nov 2005 16:19:34 +0000

really enjoyed it…..keep up good work!

By: anakim

anakim — Wed, 19 Oct 2005 20:35:12 +0000

Describe him in detail so it paints a pictue for us
good essay though lots of great points

By: Lindz

Lindz — Thu, 06 Oct 2005 04:00:41 +0000

well, as an article, or a comment, I can see how it encircles all that is important in SGGK. But can you be a little more specific, you never completely answer the question and leave the reader right back where they started from, but you did approach a very important piece of literature in an original way.

By: gamze

gamze — Tue, 26 Jul 2005 12:36:22 +0000

ı really find your essay marvelous .please never give up writing surprisingly perfect essays .good luck

By: mrdeer

mrdeer — Thu, 02 Jun 2005 15:12:35 +0000

ur essay pwnz! i like really like enjoy-ed it, yno.

By: Arthur Dent

Arthur Dent — Mon, 04 Apr 2005 03:00:39 +0000

Thanks for the essay, It very much helped me in terms of framing an approach to a Mid-Term essay I am working on!

I love the internet for exactly this reason!

By: Gray Robbins

Gray Robbins — Fri, 18 Mar 2005 13:52:17 +0000

Wonderful…I believe I’ll use it as a reference in my research paper on imperfect heroes on “Gawain.” Thank you…you will be credited.

By: Liz

Liz — Tue, 22 Feb 2005 21:39:29 +0000

Wow…just WOW
Thanks for the help!

By: James Keller

James Keller — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

Enjoyed your essay. Thought you might enjoy my poem.READING “BEOWULF”Sometimes without sleep, you wait out the darkAnd marvel that fatigue finds so little rest.Dead of night is far from silent;Car-hungry highways roar and hum,Transcontinental trains unstoppableOn their straight and narrow from here to there.Our lives are ringed with freewaysAnd we can but wonder
If these circuits bring us anythingBut short cuts, other opportunitiesOr open roads within us?Wide awake, amazed by your banishmentFrom the horizontal country of dreams,You stretch out on a couch of cold,And read the story of a sword-servantBattling the deeper, longer dark
Of the north. Reader and hero wait togetherFor dawn’s quiet dazzle from the eastThe candle of the world bringing comfort.

By: Halina Handsaker

Halina Handsaker — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

You made some very good points – I appreciate what you had to say. I think you could have said it better, though, with half the words. So many words gave it a somewhat melodramatic effect. My own opinion. I’m a bottom-line person. Thanks for sharing your thoughts. – H

By: Robert Blessing

Robert Blessing — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

Make a complete story about Sir Gawain from the time he was born to the time he died.

The essay was good.

By: Rich Preville

Rich Preville — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

Enjoyed the essay. The repetition was effective and the reading was quick and painless!

By: Kofi Gyasi

Kofi Gyasi — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

Good essay. I will use this essay in my research paper. Give you the credit of course

By: Melissa Ace

Melissa Ace — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

Great essay!!!!!! It will help me with my paper for my graduate course which is focusing on Sir Gawain at the present moment. There is so much to analyse in this book and you lay it out well.