I've been trying to decipher Chaucer's Canterbury tales and am having the most difficult time. The words are so... well foreign. I found online at SparkNotes a "No Fear" version of the Canterbury Tales. They helped so much. I like that it tries to maintain the original spellings of names but fixes the spellings of pretty much everything else. I don't know what I would do without SparkNotes. I have read the No Fear and all of the summaries and analysises (analysi?) for the Canterbury Tales. I hope I have gained some kind of higher understanding.
When I read Beowulf I was so glad that the language was not as horrible as I expected. I was relieved to think that British Literature wouldn't be so hard after all... and now we're on the Canterbury Tales. They are killing me. But oh well. Thanks again SparkNotes.
Haha isn't that right! Sparknotes have been my survival in this class! Most of the stories do have a complicated english that is hard to follow along with, what a shame sparknotes didn't always have every story :(
ReplyDeleteIsn't it interesting that the older of the two pieces was more understandable? I think it might have been translated while the other was not, but I still find it ironic. I just want you to know that there is another person out here who relied on SparkNotes to help them through the Canterbury Tales. I really wish that they would translate them in the textbook. They were fun, but they bring back bad memories at the same time because of the language in them.
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