"The poem 'Sir Gawain and the Green Knight' creates a literary mid-point between Anglo-Saxon literature and Christian Literature. Agree or Disagree?" In broad terms Sir Gawain is part of an expansive body of literature that typically was intended to entertain a courtly and hence selective audience. If there is any common denominator running throughout the stories, it is the idea of chivalry, a formal, high-stylized system of standards of knightly conduct. This poem is a …
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…of the poem Gawain assumes the green girdle as a symbol of his untrauthe: This is the token of untrauthe that I am tan inne. And I mot nedes hit were while I may last. As in Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, the past is imaged nostalgically, the alliterative Verse and dialogue emphasize the oral focus of the poem, and the worldview presented to us in paradise is a unified, comprehensive, and harmonizing one.