Drawing extensively on the Vulgate, this poem reaches its climax with its description of the Heavenly City and the procession of the 144,000 virgins.
Drawing extensively on the Vulgate, this poem reaches its climax with its description of the Heavenly City and the procession of the 144,000 virgins. Using a complex structure, it is divided into 20 sets of five stanzas whose 12 octosyllabic lines use the same last line as a refrain. In it, the narrator falls asleep, and in a vision sees a maiden across a stream who represents an adult version of the young child whose death the narrator is mourning. FTP, what is this alliterative 14th century poem composed by the Gawain-poet and named for its metaphor about the loss of a valuable jewel?
Drawing extensively on the Vulgate, this poem reaches its climax with its description of the Heavenly City and the procession of the 144,000 virgins.
Pearl