Essay about Epic Conventions Applied in The Faerie Queene

Throughout the centuries, writing an epic is considered as the major qualification of being master poet for the European writers and many writers attempt to give an example in this genre along their life time. Unfortunately, big portion of such writers fail and burry in the dusty shelves of the literature whereas some other writers’ life time could not be long enough to complete â€Å"such divine duty that puts on the poets’ shoulders. (Sydney 47).Especially, when we look through the English literature, till the first existence of the national epic works, English writers feel the lack of epic writer figure such as Homer of Greeks, or Virgil of Latins in their literature and this obligates them to focus on writing in epic genre and this need†¦show more content†¦Throughout the paper, Oxford Dictionary of Literary Terms is going to be used as main source to determine the conventions of epic poetry and applying them in the poem. According to the Dictionary, an ep ic poem has to have some specific characteristics and has to carry eleven significant features which five of them is related to the content and the six is related to the text. One of the most prominent characteristic of the eleven is; the main issue or the plot of the epic has to deal with a main character who is called, epic hero and his/her journey that focused on exploit deeds in which the hero’s success or failure will determine the fate of that people or nation that can be found in the core of the plot of The Faerie Queene. In each book there is an epic hero who is sending for a quest by Faerie Queene, Gloriana for twelve days. Along twelve books, we confront the adventures of such heroes, for instance in the Book I, a knight who is called as Knight of Red Crosse is sent to rescue Una’s parents from a fearful dragon as well as he has to defeat theological error whereas the result of the quest determines the future of Una’s parents. In the Book II, Sir Guyon sent to destroy the fleshly temptations of Acrasia. In the Book III, a female knight who named Britomart, disguised as a male, sent for aShow MoreRelatedANALIZ TEXT INTERPRETATION AND ANALYSIS28843 Words   |  116 Pagessignificance of the work’s theme? Is it topical or universal in its application? SYMBOL AND ALLEGORY A symbol, according to Webster’s Dictionary, is â€Å"something that stands for or suggests something else by reason of relationship, association, convention, or accidental resemblance†¦a visible sign of something invisible†. Symbols, in this sense, are with us all the time, for there are few words or objects that do not evoke, at least in certain contexts, a wide range of associated meanings and feelings