Question

2. How do writers and poets describe beautiful maidens and knights?​

Answer 1

Answer:

Maidens are generally described as follows:

The maiden was a beautiful /charming lady .She had long hair reaching her knees with curls like a grapevine. She had a dainty body which she carried lightly as the air. Her eyes were deep blue in colour. Her lips resembled the petals of a lotus. As she walked by everyone would be astonished looking at her amazing beauty.Even the birds and animals stopped to see her as though she was the daughter of mother earth

Knights are described as:

the knight was a brave man man.He had a brightness like the sun on his face. His mighty sword would always be there in his left hand .All the notorious people would get scared hearing the stomp of his shining shoe. His red velvet coat hung on his perfectly toned body.He wore a cape that swished as he walked.His cap was made with the rarest plumage of feather. There was no one who dared to misbehave with him.

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Answer 2

• ‘When in the chronicle of wasted time’ is one of the more famous poems in Shakespeare’s cycle of 154 sonnets. Before we proceed to an analysis of the poem’s features, here’s a reminder of Sonnet 106.

When in the chronicle of wasted time

I see descriptions of the fairest wights,

And beauty making beautiful old rhyme,

In praise of ladies dead and lovely knights,

Then, in the blazon of sweet beauty’s best,

Of hand, of foot, of lip, of eye, of brow,

I see their antique pen would have expressed

Even such a beauty as you master now.

So all their praises are but prophecies

Of this our time, all you prefiguring;

And for they looked but with divining eyes,

They had not skill enough your worth to sing:

For we, which now behold these present days,

Have eyes to wonder, but lack tongues to praise.

• Sonnet 106 is another poem addressed to the Fair Youth, whose beauty Shakespeare praises. To paraphrase the meaning of Sonnet 106: ‘When I read descriptions of beautiful people in old books, people whose beauty inspired old poems, praising women who are now dead and handsome knights, I see in such descriptions of these paragons of beauty that the authors would have gladly described your beauty. So all of their praise of others is merely a foreshadowing of your beauty in the present time – yet although they had the wit to predict your arrival, they did not

have the skill to describe you. For even we poets who live now at the same time as you can admire your beauty, but we don’t have the skill to put such beauty into adequate words.’