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Super Show! They resembled their appearances in Super Mario Bros. Unlike in the games, the forms are given from not only Fire Flowers, but also Starmen , a magic doodad , Excalibur , and at one point, a shock from a high voltage. In some instances, the form itself is referred as Fire Power , a name that transitioned into the two following series.

As well as granting the Mario Bros. Mario is also seen transforming into this form in the intro. Also, during the transformation sequence, Mario and Luigi are shown in one frame with an outfit resembling their current color schemes since Super Mario Bros. King Koopa , by using the Power Pendant , could also use this form in the episode " Super Koopa ", though he only did so in tandem with the Raccoon form. In the Super Mario World cartoon, the form's appearance was changed again to match its appearance in Super Mario World and later games.

However, the form had very limited screen time in this series; it was only featured in the episodes " Send in the Clown ", " King Scoopa Koopa ", and " Born to Ride ", where only Mario is shown to transform into this form. However, while Fire Luigi does not appear, in the episode " Party Line ", Invincible Luigi flashes with colors of both his regular outfit and as if he had a Fire form. The Nintendo Comics System never features the fire form; however, the prologue short, " The Legend ", has one panel where Luigi throws fireballs at some Beezos , but he is wearing his regular outfit rather than his Fire form colors.

Fire Mario appears in Hotel Mario , once again functioning the same. Unlike the current design, Fire Mario and Luigi's overalls flash in different hues of colors. Although the actual form itself is not present in the Mario Golf series , Mario and Baby Mario have an alternate color scheme that resembles the outfit.

In Mario Golf: World Tour , a costume, golf ball, and golf clubs based on this form can be used by Miis. The ball and clubs are available after playing rounds, and the costume is unlocked when the player scores a hole-in-one thrice.

In Mario Tennis Open , there is a Fire Mario suit that can be unlocked by giving two characters a star rank. A racket was made to fit it. Whenever a Fire Flower sticker or its Shiny or Flashy variants are used, Mario transforms into Fire Mario to attack, by hurling one fireball at all on-screen enemies before reverting back to his normal state.

It functions almost like it did in Paper Mario: Sticker Star ; however, now the player has to wait for the fireball to charge before pressing. Since it is mostly red, it takes up most of the red paint, assuming the player uses it with the starting amount of paint.

His exclusive Special Item is the Double Fireballs, which allow him to shoot two fireballs one by one. Her special item is the Fire Flower. Brawl and Super Smash Bros. Melee based off his Super Mario Bros. Unlike the form's home series, Fire Mario's design is somewhat modified for his appearance in Brawl , with the most notable change being a more realistic-looking overalls and back pockets.

However, in Super Smash Bros. Ultimate , Mario's Fire-based outfit and his Wario-based outfit were retired in order to make room for new costumes based on his wedding tuxedo from Super Mario Odyssey and his Builder costume from Super Mario Maker , respectively. Luigi, on the other hand, keeps his Fire form outfit in Super Smash Bros. Ultimate , as do Peach and Rosalina.

Mario World. In this game, they wear lab coats over their established outfits, and are called Dr. Fire Mario , Dr. Fire Peach , Dr. Fire Luigi , and Dr. Fire Rosalina respectively. The doctors are available as special stage rewards in World 27 , World 11 , World 13 , and World 31 respectively. One common theme with their skills is that they can eliminate viruses or objects, even those that take multiple hits, with the exception of Muddy Coins.

In versus mode, a common thing that they share is that, compared to their regular counterparts, their attack speed is faster but they have overall lower defenses. Fire Mario's skill, similar to Dr. Mario 's, eliminate the lowest row s of clearable objects, where any lower rows that only contain unclearable objects such as Empty Blocks are ignored. Fire Peach's skill, similar to Dr.

Peach's, eliminate a random column s of clearable objects, prioritizing any column s with viruses. Fire Luigi's skill is different from Dr.

Luigi's skill, where it is instead to eliminate both the leftmost column s and the lowest row s of objects. Fire Rosalina's skill is also different from Dr.

Rosalina's skill, where it is instead to eliminate a random target of objects in a 3x3 area up to 5x5 in versus mode , and areas containing viruses are prioritized. Fire Mario make another appearances in volume 44, as Mario and Luigi, as well as the Toads, must use 30 fireballs to take down Bowser. Yoshi tries too, but mistakes "Fire" for "Tire".

Fire Mario is a playable character in Monopoly Gamer. He is sold separately as a "Power Pack" expansion figure. Super Mario Land 2: 6 Golden Coins. Super Mario All Stars. Mario vs. Donkey Kong 2: March of the Minis. New Super Mario Bros. From the Super Mario Wiki, the Mario encyclopedia. For information about the recurring transformation from the Wario Land series, see Flaming Wario. The language is frequently archaic and designedly unfamiliar.

Much of the machinery and properties used in carrying on the story, such as speaking myrtles, magic mirrors, swords, rings, impenetrable armor, and healing fountains, is supernatural. All the characters—the knights, ladies, dwarfs, magicians, dragons, nymphs, satyrs, and giants—are the conventional figures of pastoral romance. The framework of the plot of the Faerie Queene is vast and loosely put together. There are six main stories, or legends, and each contains several digressions and involved episodes.

The plan of the entire work, which the author only half completed, is outlined in his letter to Sir Walter Raleigh. This letter serves as an admirable introduction to the poem, and should be read attentively by the student. Gloriana, the Queen of Fairyland, holds at her court a solemn feudal festival, lasting twelve days, during which she sends forth twelve of her greatest knights on as many separate adventures.

The knights are commissioned to champion the cause of persons in distress and redress their wrongs. The ideal knight, Prince Arthur, is the central male figure of the poem. He is enamoured of Gloriana, having seen her in a wondrous vision, and is represented as journeying in quest of her. He appears in all of the legends at opportune moments to succor the knights when they are hard beset or in the power of their enemies.

It is a poem of culture, inculcating the moral ideals of Aristotle and the teachings of Christianity. As to Spenser's specific indebtedness, though he owed much in incident and diction to Chaucer's version of the Romance of the Rose and to Malory's Morte d'Arthur , the great epic poets, Tasso and Ariosto, should be given first place. The resemblance of passages in the Faerie Queene to others in the Orlando Furioso and the Jerusalem Delivered is so striking that some have accused the English poet of paraphrasing and slavishly borrowing from the two Italians.

Many of these parallels are pointed out in the notes. To this criticism, Mr. Saintsbury remarks: "Not, perhaps, till the Orlando has been carefully read, and read in the original, is Spenser's real greatness understood.

He has often, and evidently of purpose, challenged comparison; but in every instance it will be found that his beauties are emphatically his own. He has followed Ariosto only as Vergil has followed Homer, and much less slavishly.

The influence of the New Learning is clearly evident in Spenser's use of classical mythology. Greek myths are placed side by side with Christian imagery and legends. Like Dante, the poet did not consider the Hellenic doctrine of sensuous beauty to be antagonistic to the truths of religion.

Spenser was guided by a higher and truer sense of beauty than the classical purists know. A very attractive element of his classicism is his worship of beauty. The Greek conception of beauty included two forms—the sensuous and the spiritual. So richly colored and voluptuous are his descriptions that he has been called the painters' poet, "the Rubens," and "the Raphael of the poets.

Sensuous beauty is seen in the forms of external nature, like the morning mist and sunshine, the rose gardens, the green elders, and the quiet streams. His ideal of perfect sensuous and spiritual beauty combined is found in womanhood.

Such a one is Una, the dream of the poet's young manhood, and we recognize in her one whose soul is as fair as her face—an idealized type of a woman in real life who calls forth all our love and reverence. Patee, "after reading Spenser's letter to Raleigh, can wander far into Spenser's poem without the conviction that the author's central purpose was didactic, almost as much as was Bunyan's in Pilgrim's Progress. That the allegory of the poem is closely connected with its aim and ethical tendency is evident from the statement of the author that "the generall end therefore of all the booke is to fashion a gentleman or noble person in vertuous and gentle discipline.

Which for that I conceived should be most plausible and pleasing, being coloured with an historical fiction, the which the most part of men delight to read, rather for varietie of matter then for profite of the ensample. Though it is one of the most highly artistic works in the language, it is at the same time one of the most didactic.

Church, "to be a veiled exposition of moral philosophy. The Redcross Knight, for example, personifies the single private virtue of holiness, while Prince Arthur stands for that perfect manhood which combines all the moral qualities; Una represents abstract truth, while Gloriana symbolizes the union of all the virtues in perfect womanhood.

On the other hand, Archimago symbolizes the deceptions of the Jesuits and Duessa the false Church of Rome masquerading as true religion. One of Spenser's prime objects in composing his epic was to please certain powerful persons at court, and above all to win praise and patronage from the vain and flattery loving queen, whom he celebrates as Gloriana. Prince Arthur is a character that similarly pays homage to Lord Leicester. George, the patron saint of England, while in Una we may see idealized some fair lady of the court.

Suggestions for its construction were taken from three Italian metres—the Ottava Rima, the Terza Rima, the Sonnet—and the Ballade stanza. There are eight lines in the iambic pentameter measure five accents ; e. The rhymes are arranged in the following order: ab ab bc bcc. It will be observed that the two quatrains are bound together by the first two b rhymes, and the Alexandrine, which rhymes with the eighth line, draws out the harmony with a peculiar lingering effect.

In scanning and reading it is necessary to observe the laws of accentuation and pronunciation prevailing in Spenser's day; e. The rhythm of the meter is also varied by the alternating of end-stopped and run-on lines, as in the last quotation. An end-stopped line has a pause at the end, usually indicated by some mark of punctuation. A run-on line should be read closely with the following line with only a slight pause to indicate the line-unit.

Monotony is prevented by the occasional use of a light or feminine ending—a syllable on which the voice does not or cannot rest; e. The use of alliteration, i. Its compass, which admitted of an almost endless variety of cadence, harmonized well with the necessity for continuous narration.

It appeals to the eye as well as to the ear, with its now languid, now vigorous, but always graceful turn of phrase. Its movement has been compared to the smooth, steady, irresistible sweep of water in a mighty river. Like Lyly, Marlowe, and Shakespeare, Spenser felt the new delight in the pictorial and musical qualities of words, and invented new melodies and word pictures.

He aimed rather at finish, exactness, and fastidious neatness than at ease, freedom, and irregularity; and if his versification has any fault, it is that of monotony. The atmosphere is always perfectly adapted to the theme. As a romantic poet, Spenser often preferred archaic and semi-obsolete language to more modern forms. He uses four classes of words that were recognized as the proper and conventional language of pastoral and romantic poetry; viz.

He did not hesitate to adopt from Chaucer many obsolete words and grammatical forms. Examples are: the double negative with ne ; eyen , lenger , doen , ycladd , harrowd , purchas , raught , seely , stowre , swinge , owch , and withouten. He also employs many old words from Layamon, Wiclif, and Langland, like swelt , younglings , noye , kest , hurtle , and loft. His dialectic forms are taken from the vernacular of the North Lancashire folk with which he was familiar.

Some are still a part of the spoken language of that region, such as, brent , cruddled , forswat , fearen , forray , pight , sithen , carle , and carke. Examples of his use of classical constructions are: the ablative absolute, as, which doen IV, xliii ; the relative construction with when , as, which when I, xvii , that when VII, xi ; the comparative of the adjective in the sense of "too," as, weaker I, xlv , harder II, xxxvi ; the participial construction after till , as, till further tryall made I, xii ; the superlative of location, as, middest IV, xv ; and the old gerundive, as, wandering wood I, xiii.

Most of the gallicisms found are anglicized loan words from the French romans d'aventure , such as, disseized , cheare , chappell , assoiled , guerdon , palfrey , recreaunt , trenchand , syre , and trusse. Notwithstanding Spenser's use of foreign words and constructions, his language is as thoroughly English in its idiom as that of any of our great poets.

I do not know how it is, but she said very right. There is something in Spenser that pleases one as strongly in old age as it did in youth. I read the Faerie Queene when I was about twelve, with infinite delight; and I think it gave me as much, when I read it over about a year or two ago. The imperishable charm of the poem lies in its appeal to the pure sense of beauty.

Each story is modified with respect to another, and all with respect to a certain effect which is being worked out. Thus a beauty issues from this harmony,—the beauty in the poet's heart,—which his whole work strives to express; a noble and yet a laughing beauty, made up of moral elevation and sensuous seductions, English in sentiment, Italian in externals, chivalric in subject, modern in its perfection, representing a unique and admirable epoch, the appearance of paganism in a Christian race, and the worship of form by an imagination of the North.

A LETTER of the Authors expounding his whole intention in the course of this worke; 1 which, for that it giveth great light to the reader, for the better understanding is hereunto annexed. Lo: Wardein of the Stanneries, and her majesties lieutenaunt of the countie of Cornewayll. Knowing how doubtfully all Allegories may be constructed, and this booke of mine, which I have entituled The Faery Queene , being a continued Allegorie, or darke conceit, I have thought good, as well for avoyding of jealous opinions and misconstructions, as also for your better light in reading thereof, being so, by you commanded to discover unto you the generall intention and meaning, which in the whole course thereof I have fashioned, without expressing of any particular purposes, or by-accidents therein occasioned.

The generall end therefore of all the booke, is to fashion a gentleman or noble person in vertuous and gentle discipline. Which for that I conceived shoulde be most plausible and pleasing, beeing coloured with an historicall fiction, the which the most part of men delight to read, rather for varietie of matter than for profit of the ensample: I chose the historie of king Arthure, as most fit for the excellencie of his person, beeing made famous by many mens former workes, and also furthest from the danger of envie, and suspicion of present time.

By ensample of which excellent Poets, I laboure to pourtraict in Arthure, before he was king, the image of a brave knight, perfected in the twelve private morall vertues, as Aristotle hath devised: which if I find to be well accepted, I may be perhaps encoraged to frame the other part of pollitike vertues in his person, after he came to bee king.

To some I know this Methode will seem displeasant, which had rather have good discipline delivered plainly in way of precepts, or sermoned at large, as they use, then thus clowdily enwrapped in Allegoricall devises.

But such, mee seeme, should be satisfied with the use of these dayes, seeing all things accounted by their showes, and nothing esteemed of, that is not delightfull and pleasing to common sense. For this cause is Xenophon preferred before Plato, for that the one, in the exquisite depth of his judgement, formed a Commune-wealth, such as it should be; but the other, in the person of Cyrus and the Persians, fashioned a government, such as might best be: So much more profitable and gracious is doctrine by ensample then by rule.

So have I laboured to do in the person of Arthure: whom I conceive, after his long education by Timon to whom he was by Merlin delivered to be brought up, so soone as he was borne of the Lady Igrayne to have seen in a dreame or vision the Faerie Queene, with whose excellent beautie ravished, hee awaking, resolved to seek her out: and so, being by Merlin armed, and by Timon throughly instructed, he went to seeke her forth in Faery land.

In that Faery Queene I mean Glory in my generall intention: but in my particular I conceive the most excellent and glorious person of our soveraine the Queene, and her kingdome in Faery land. And yet, in some places else, I doe otherwise shadow her. For considering shee beareth two persons, the one of a most royall Queene or Empresse, the other of a most vertuous and beautifull lady, this latter part in some places I doe expresse in Belphoebe, fashioning her name according to your owne excellent conceipt of Cynthia, 2 Phoebe and Cynthia being both names of Diana.

So in the person of Prince Arthure I sette forth magnificence in particular, which vertue, for that according to Aristotle and the rest it is the perfection of all the rest, and containeth in it them all, therefore in the whole course I mention the deeds of Arthure appliable to the vertue, which I write of in that booke.

But of the twelve other vertues I make XII other knights the patrons, for the more varietie of the historic: Of which these three bookes containe three.

But because the beginning of the whole worke seemeth abrupt and as depending upon other antecedents, it needs that yee know the occasion of these three knights severall adventures. For the Methode of a Poet historicall is not such as of an Historiographer. For an Historiographer discourseth of affaires orderly as they were done, accounting as well the times as the actions; but a Poet thrusteth into the middest, even where it most concerneth him, and there recoursing to the things forepast, and divining of things to come, maketh a pleasing analysis of all.

The beginning therefore of my historie, if it were to be told by an Historiographer, should be the twelfth booke, which is the last; where I devise that the Faery Queene kept her annuall feast twelve daies; uppon which twelve severall dayes, the occasions of the twelve severall adventures hapned, which being undertaken by XII severall knights, are in these twelve books severally handled and discoursed.

The first was this. In the beginning of the feast, there presented him selfe a tall clownish younge man, who falling before the Queene of Faeries desired a boone as the manner then was which during that feast she might not refuse: which was that hee might have the atchievement of any adventure, which during that feast should happen; that being granted, he rested him selfe on the fioore, unfit through his rusticitie for a better place.

Soone after entred a faire Ladie in mourning weedes, riding on a white Asse, with a dwarfe behind her leading a warlike steed, that bore the Armes of a knight, and his speare in the dwarfes hand. She falling before the Queene of Faeries, complayned that her father and mother, an ancient King and Queene, had bene by an huge dragon many yeers shut up in a brazen Castle, who thence suffered them not to issew: and therefore besought the Faery Queene to assigne her some one of her knights to take on him that exployt.

Presently that clownish person upstarting, desired that adventure; whereat the Queene much wondering, and the Lady much gaine-saying, yet he earnestly importuned his desire. In the end the Lady told him, that unlesse that armour which she brought would serve him that is, the armour of a Christian man specified by Saint Paul, V.

And eftesoones taking on him knighthood, and mounting on that straunge Courser, he went forth with her on that adventure: where beginneth the first booke, viz. The second day there came in a Palmer bearing an Infant with bloody hands, whose Parents he complained to have bene slaine by an enchauntresse called Acrasia: and therefore craved of the Faery Queene, to appoint him some knight to performe that adventure, which being assigned to Sir Guyon, he presently went foorth with the same Palmer: which is the beginning of the second booke and the whole subject thereof.

The third day there came in a Groome, who complained before the Faery Queene, that a vile Enchaunter, called Busirane, had in hand a most faire Lady, called Amoretta, whom he kept in most grevious torment. Whereupon Sir Scudamour, the lover of that Lady, presently tooke on him that adventure. But beeing unable to performe it by reason of the hard Enchauntments, after long sorrow, in the end met with Britomartis, who succoured him, and reskewed his love.

But by occasion hereof, many other adventures are intermedled; but rather as accidents then intendments. As the love of Britomart, the overthrow of Marinell, the miserie of Florimell, the vertuousness of Belphoebe; and many the like. Thus much, Sir, I have briefly-over-run to direct your understanding to the wel-head of the History, that from thence gathering the whole intention of the conceit, ye may as in a handfull gripe all the discourse, which otherwise may happely seem tedious and confused.

So humbly craving the continuance of your honourable favour towards me, and th' eternall establishment of your happines, I humbly take leave. Line 1. Lo I the man. An imitation of the opening lines of Vergil's Aeneid :—.

Referring to his Shepheards Calender Spenser thus gracefully indicates his change from pastoral to epic poetry. Knights and Ladies. The poet here imitates the opening of Ariosto's Orlando Furioso. O holy virgin chiefe of nine, refers to Clio, the muse of history.

Spenser should have invoked Calliope, the muse of poetry. Of Faerie knights, the the champions of Gloriana, the queen of Faerieland. In the allegory she is Queen Elizabeth. He is represented as armed with an ebony bow l. The spelling is that of the Italians and Chaucer. O Goddesse heavenly bright, Queen Elizabeth aged 56 , who was fond of such extravagant flattery, and expected it of all her courtiers.

Phoebus lampe, Apollo, the sun-god. The argument of mine afflicted stile, the subject of my humble pen. O dearest dred, O beloved object of reverence; a common salutation of royalty. The Plot: At the bidding of Gloriana, the Redcross Knight undertakes to deliver Una's parents from a dragon who holds them captive.

He sets out upon his quest attended by a dwarf and guided by Una, mounted on an ass and leading a lamb. They are driven by a storm into a forest, where they discover the cave of Error, who is slain by the Knight. They are then beguiled into the house of Archimago, an old enchanter. By his magic he leads the Knight in a dream to believe that Una is false to him, and thus separates them. The Allegory: 1. Holiness, the love of God, united with Truth, the knowledge of God, is to deliver man from the thraldom of the Devil.

Together they are able to overthrow Error; but Hypocrisy deceitfully alienates Holiness from Truth by making the latter appear unworthy of love.

There is a hint of the intrigues of the false Roman church and the treacherous Spanish king, Philip II, to undermine the religious and political freedom of the English people. The English nation, following the Reformed church, overthrows the Catholic faith, but is deceived by the machinations of Spanish diplomacy.

A gentle knight, the Redcross Knight, representing the church militant, and Reformed England. He is the young, untried champion of the old cause whose struggles before the Reformation are referred to in ll. His shield bore "a cross gules upon a field argent," a red cross on a silver ground. See The Birth of St.

For soveraine hope, as a sign of the supreme hope. Greatest Gloriana, Queen Elizabeth. In other books of The Faerie Queene she is called Belphoebe, the patroness of chastity, and Britomart, the military genius of Britain.

A Dragon, "the great dragon, that old serpent, called the devil," Revelation , xii, 9, also Rome and Spain. George and the dragon, and Fletcher's Purple Island , vii seq. Her lamb symbolizes innocence. A shadie grove, the wood of Error. Morley sees in this grove an allegory of man's life, the trees symbolizing trade, pleasure, youth, etc.

The sayling Pine. Ships were built of pine. The builder Oake. In the Middle Ages most manor houses and churches were built of oak. Sidney says that they were wont to dress graves with cypress branches in old times.

The Laurell. Victors at the Pythian games and triumphing Roman generals were crowned with laurel. It was also sacred to Apollo, the god of poetry, hence "meed of poets sage. The fir exudes resinous substance. The Willow. The Eugh. Ascham in his Toxophilus tells us that the best bows were made of yew.

The allusion is to the wounding of Myrrha by her father and her metamorphosis into this tree. The warlike Beech, because lances and other arms were made of it. The great tree Igdrasil in the northern mythology was an ash. The carver Holme, or evergreen oak, was good for carving.

She is half human, half serpent, because error is partly true and partly false. Dante's Fraud and Milton's Sin are similar monsters. Of her there bred, etc. Her offspring are lies and rumors of many shapes. Armed to point, completely armed. His gall did grate for griefe, his anger was aroused on account of pain. In the old anatomy anger had its seat in the gallbladder. See Burton's Anatomy of Melancholy , I, i, 2. Her vomit full of bookes, etc. From , when Pope Sixtus V issued his bull of deposition against Queen Elizabeth, to , great numbers of scurrilous pamphlets attacking the Queen and the Reformed church had been disseminated by Jesuit refugees.

Pliny believed that the mud of the Nile had the power of breeding living creatures like mice. In this pastoral simile, Spenser imitates Homer's Iliad , ii, , and xvii, , and Ariosto's Orlando Furioso , xiv, Thus ill bestedd. There is a similar combat in the old romance Guy of Warwick , ix, between the hero and a man-eating dragon.

Her scattred brood. The poet here follows a belief as old as Pliny that the young of serpents fed on their mother's blood. In this entire passage the details are too revolting for modern taste. The antecedent of which is her.

In the sixteenth century the was frequently placed before which , which was also the equivalent of who. Belief in astrology was once common, and Spenser being a Pythagorean would hold the doctrine of the influence of the stars on human destiny.

Ephesians , vi, The word order is inverted for the sake of the rhyme. In general he stands for false religion or the Church of Rome. The character and adventure are taken from Orlando Furioso , ii, 12, in which there is a hypocritical hermit. The Knight at first takes Archimago to be a palmer, and inquires for the foreign news. Luke , i, His Magick bookes and artes. Monks engaged in scientific investigation, such as Friar Roger Bacon, were popularly supposed to use cabalistic books, and to make compacts with the Devil by means of necromancy, or the black art, as in st.

Before the close of the century Marlowe's Doctor Faustus and Greene's Friar Bacon and Friar Bungay , both based on the popular belief in magic, were presented on the London stage. She is identified with Shakespeare's Hecate, the goddess of sorcery, and with Milton's Cotytto, goddess of lust. To this latter sin the knight is tempted. Great Gorgon, Demogorgon, whose name might not be uttered, a magician who had power over the spirits of the lower world.

The poet is here imitating the Latin poets Lucan and Statius. Cocytus, the river of wailing, and Styx, the river of hate, both in Hades. There were two others, Acheron , the river of sorrow, and Phlegethon , the river of fire. Legions of Sprights. In this stanza and the preceding Spenser follows Tasso's Jerusalem Delivered , xiii, , where the magician Ismeno, guarding the Enchanted Wood, conjures "legions of devils" with the "mighty name" l.

Imitation of Ariosto's Orlando Furioso , ii, 15, in which a false spirit is called up by a hypocritical hermit. The description of the House of Sleep in st.

The influence of Homer's Odyssey , xi, 16 is seen in st. Tethys, the ocean. In classical mythology she is the daughter of Uranus heaven and Gaea earth , and the wife of Oceanus. Cynthia, the moon. The allusion is to the story of Diana and Endymion. See Lyly's play Endymion. Whose double gates. Homer, Odyssey , xix, , and Vergil, Aeneid , vi, , give the House of Dreams a horn and an ivory gate.

Spenser substitutes silver for horn, mirrors being overlaid with silver in his time. From the ivory gate issued false dreams; from the other, true ones. This stanza shows Spenser's wonderful technique. His exquisite effects are produced, it will be noticed, partly by the choice of musical words and partly by the rhythmical cadence of the verse phrases.

It is an example of perfect "keeping," or adaptation of sound to sense. Chaucer's description of the waterfalls in the Cave of Sleep in his Boke of the Duchesse , In the old physiology, a dry brain was the cause of slow and weak perception, and a moist brain of quickness. Hecate, queen of phantoms and demons in Hades, and mistress of witches on earth. See xxxvii. Like is an adv. A very awkward inversion.

Fayre Venus, the daughter of Jupiter, or Zeus, and the sea-nymph Dione. She is the same as Aphrodite, the Greek goddess of love and beauty. Hymen, the son of Apollo and the Muse Urania, was the god of marriage. She typified spring. To prove his sense, etc. To test his perception and prove her feigned truth. Tho can she weepe, then did she weep. Can here is the Northern dialect form for the middle English gan , past tense of ginnen , to begin, which was used as an auxiliary.

Like other knights of romance, e. Tell in your own words the story of this canto. Which muse does Spenser invoke? Who were the nine muses? What is the difference between pastoral and epic poetry?

Explain the reference to the religious questions and politics of Queen Elizabeth's reign. What references to the Bible do you find? Try to make a mental picture of the Knight—of Una—of Error—of Archimago. Is Spenser's character drawing objective or subjective? Is the description of the wood in vii true to nature?

Could so many trees grow together in a thick wood? Study the Rembrandt-like effects of light and shade in xiv. What infernal deities are conjured up by Archimago? Paraphrase in your own language ll. Explain use of of in l. What part of speech is wandering l. Find examples of Euphuistic hyperbole in iv , of alliteration in xiv. Explain the use and form of eyne , edified , afflicted , weeds , Hebean , impe , compeld , areeds , blazon , ycladd.

The Plot : Deceived by Archimago's phantoms, the Redcross Knight suspects the chastity of Una, and flies at early dawn with his dwarf.

He chances to meet the Saracen Sansfoy in company with the false Duessa. They do battle and Sansfoy is slain. Duessa under the name of Fidessa attaches herself to the Knight, and they ride forward. They stop to rest under some shady trees, On breaking a bough, the Knight discovers that the trees are two lovers, Fradubio and Fraelissa, thus imprisoned by the cruel enchantment of Duessa. The Allegory : 1. Hypocrisy under a pious disguise is attractive to Holiness.

Truth is also deceived by it, and shamefully slandered. Holiness having abandoned Truth, takes up with Falsehood, who is attended by Infidelity. Unbelief when openly assailing Holiness is overthrown, but Falsehood under the guise of Faith remains undiscovered. The Reformed Church, no longer under the guidance of Truth, rushes headlong into Infidelity, and unwittingly became the defender of the Romish Faith under the name of the True Faith.

There is a hint of the intrigues of Mary Queen of Scots and the libels of the Jesuits on Queen Elizabeth designed to bring back the English nation to Romish allegiance. LINE 1. Roman de Renart and Reineke Fuchs.

Spenser took suggestions for this stanza from Ariosto and Tasso. This beautiful epithet of Aurora, the goddess of the dawn, is borrowed from Homer, Hesiod, and other ancient poets.

Aurora conferred upon him immortality without youth, hence the epithet "aged. Titan, the sun-god in the Roman myths. Proteus, a sea-god who was endowed with the power of prophecy. He could change himself into any shape in order to avoid having to prophesy. See Homer, Odyssey , iv, seq. In the sixteenth century the belief in potions, magic formulas, etc. The Spanish court and the priests were supposed to employ supernatural agencies against the Protestants. A faithless Sarazin. Spenser uses the word Saracen in the general sense of pagan.

During the Middle Ages the Saracen power was a menace to Europe, and the stronghold of infidelity. The names of the three Paynim brethren, Sansfoy, Sansjoy, and Sansloy,—faithless, joyless, and lawless,—suggest the point of view of Spenser's age.

Her character and appearance were suggested by the woman of Babylon, in Revelation , viii, 4, Ariosto's Alcina, and Tasso's Armida.

As when two rams. The broken reliques, the shattered lances. Each others equall puissaunce envies, each envies the equal prowess of the other. With rigour so outrageous, with force so violent. That a large share, etc. Him in 1 refers to the knight, in 2 to the Saracen. Because reluctant to part from the flesh. Duessa represents the Pope, who exercised imperial authority in Rome, though the seat of the empire had been transferred to Constantinople in Duessa's story is full of falsehoods.

The knight is allured on by Duessa's assumed shyness. The Reformed Church, weakened by Falsehood, is enticed by doubt and skepticism. With goodly purposes, with polite conversation.

This whole stanza refers to Mary's candidacy for the English throne and its dangers to Protestantism. He pluckt a bough. In this incident Spenser imitates Ariosto, Orlando Furioso , vi, 26, in which Ruggiero addresses a myrtle which bleeds and cries out with pain.

The conception of men turned into trees occurs also in Ovid, Vergil, Tasso, and Dante. O spare with guilty hands, etc. Cf Vergil's account of Polydorus in Aeneid , iii, 41, in which a myrtle exclaims, Parce pias scelerare manus , etc.

With the Schoolmen, Limbo was a border region of hell where dwelt the souls of Old Testament saints, pious heathen, lunatics, and unbaptized infants.

Milton's Paradise of Fools, Paradise Lost , iii, Fradubio, as it were "Brother Doubtful," one who hesitates between false religion and pagan religion, Duessa and Fraelissa Morley. Fraelissa is fair but frail, and will not do to lean upon. Treen is an adj. Supply "as she appeared to be," i. Witches had to appear in their "proper hew" one day in spring and undergo a purifying bath.

The old romances make frequent mention of the enchanted herb bath. The phrase modifies "body," or is equivalent to "while I was drowned in sleep. This well signifies the healing power of Christianity. John , iv, In Spenser's story this well is never found, and the wretched couple are never restored to human shape.

How does the knight feel and act while under Archimago's spell? What becomes of Una? How does Archimago plan to deceive her? Tell the story of the lovers turned into trees. Who was Sansfoy? Describe the appearance and character of Duessa. What did she have to do with Fradubio and Fraelissa? What was the old belief about the penance of witches?

How only could the lovers be restored to their human shape? Was it done? Who were St. George, Phoebus, Titan, Tithonius? Explain the reference to Chaunticlere in l. Find examples of alliteration in xix ; of balance in xxxvii ; and of Latinizing in xix ; xxxvi ; xxxviii , and xl.

Paraphrase in your own words ll. What figure of speech is used in xiii , xvi , and xx? Study the rich word-painting in the description of sunrise in vii. Find other examples of this poet's use of "costly" epithets. Scan the following passages: , , , , and Find example of tmesis separation of prep. What is the case of heavens in l. What words are omitted in ll. The Plot: Una wandering in quest of her Knight is guarded by a Lion.

With difficulty they gain entrance to the cottage of Corceca and her daughter Abessa, the paramour of Kirkrapine. The latter is killed by the Lion. Fleeing the next day, Una falls in with Archimago disguised as the Redcross Knight. They journey on and meet a second Saracen knight, Sansloy. In the fight which ensues Archimago is unhorsed and his deception unmasked. The Lion is slain, and Una becomes the captive of Sansloy.

Truth is then associated with Hypocrisy under the guise of Holiness, but it is soon unmasked by Lawlessness Sansloy , with which Truth is forced into an unnatural alliance. The battle between Archimago and Sansloy refers to the contests of the Catholic powers with the Moslems. Quickly set up your RTMP stream and broadcast to your chosen streaming service or go live on multiple platforms at once to increase your online reach. Picture — in — Picture More than a streaming software, ManyCam allows you to add layers on top of your main video source to drive your audience.

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