"Sir Gawaine and the Green Knight" and "The Beanstalk, Meditated Later" are two poems that share similar conventions. Using famous fairy tales as reference and having the main characters from the tales as subjects, the poets, Yvor Winters and Judith Wright admirably translate the tales into modern experiences. Both poems are spoken through the subjects, Sir Gawaine and Jack. The subjects possess unique voices and characteristics, and are faced by fearful antagonists who threaten the …
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…Green Knight" and "The Beanstalk, Meditated Later" are poems that use similar conventions such as having protagonists, antagonists, and a conflict that must be resolved. Such characteristics are embedded into the poems by the two poets, who effectively create poetic patterns, using fairy tale characters who represent the issues from their experiences. Works Cited Ellmann, Richard and Rober O'Clair. Modern Poems: An Norton Introduction. Second edition. W. W. Norton & Company: New York. London, 1989.