First published in the 1400s, Le Morte d'Arthur tells the story of King Arthur and his knights. Written in Middle English, it compiles a number of French stories and gives them an English identity. Stories include the quest for the Holy Grail, the tragic love story of Tristan and Isolde, and Arthur's death at the hands of Mordred, his son. The idea of courtly love is explored throughout the book, in the story of Tristan and Isolde, and in the affair between Sir Launcelot and Queen Guinevere.
In Never Let Me Go a fictional story focusing on three classmates from a unique boarding school author Kazuo Ishiguro deals with questions of loss and mortality that each of must eventually confront As we get older as we lose our friends and family as the environment around us changes and things once familiar to us disappear or become unfamiliar as we cling to our memories of how things used to be how do we come to accept the fact that our lives are finite and attach some meaning to our limited
Nature is an undeniable force that is uncertain and unjust This is shown in the poem Home Burial by Robert Frost with the lines Three foggy mornings and one rainy day Will rot the best birch fence a man can build 96 97 Frost is telling the reader that nature will destroy the greatest things man can create even something as great as life In The Iliad by Homer Achilles knows that if he fights he will die in battle Despite his given prophecy he decides to go Why Achilles search for immortality is
Personification in Because I Could Not Stop for Death Death whether distant or near is an event that cannot be stopped In Emily Dickinsons Because I Could Not Stop for Death the speaker personifies death as a person who follows her through a journey Refusing to stop for death it then follows the speaker with no haste to the destination she is slowly taken to where she will stay for eternity For example Dickinson further explains a recap of her life as she slowly and peacefully is lead by death
Compare and Contrast Beowulf and Le Motre dArthur Beowulf translated by Burton Raffel is an Anglo Saxon epic poem tells of a story of a Swedish hero who comes and saves the Danish people from monsters throughout a long course of history and even gave up his life to defend his people In Le Motre dArthur written by Thomas Malory shows the story of a later time in King Arthurs life in which he fought for his people and was praised and remembered today just like Beowulf Despite the fantasy in one p