verses in vogue
TRANSCRIPT
Verses in Vogue
Interpretation
Comparison
Word Choice
“Not only my gold, but my chaffáre”
“NOT CONVINCED”
“POOR CHOICE”
Reviews:
“OPEN TO INTERPRETA
TION”
“LOVED IT”
1475
It means: Merchandise
Merchandise means: goods
Back then:Goods = women
Chaffáre:
“They sworn, and hereupon they kissed”
1331
Marriage imagery “THIS IS
IMPORTANT!”“SNEAKY
”“INTIMAT
E” “FORESHADOWING?”
Sealing the deal
Making a vow
Going back on their own
vows
Reviews:
“At a certain day I will you pay”
1380
“MAYBE IT WAS AN ACCIDENT”
“SUS”
“GRABBED MY ATTENTION!”
“CREATIVE”
Ambiguous
Could be any point in time
Up to Daun John
Only character to get a name
A Certain Day
Reviews:
“Greet well our dame”
1553
“WOW I NEVER EVEN NOTICED”
“SHOCKING!”
“SO CASUAL”“WHAT IS HE SAYING TO HIS
FRIEND?”
Our = both of us
Dame = woman /
taken woman
A woman we’ve both
known
Reviews:
Our dame
“Another payen for our cost / or lend us gold”
1208
Pronouns not congruent with story
Not a character,
but the narrator
The speaker is not the Shipman
A woman?
Our / Us “WHY??”
“UNBELIEVABLE”
“I GUESS…”
“SO TRUE!!!!”
Reviews:
Throughout the Poem
1502
“I” / “Our” / “Us”“My lord Daun John
was come again” Why is this even
important?
What does this mean
to the overall story?
How come this only
happens in this story?
“No more of him I say”
1514
“This noble monk of which I you devise”
1253
“I let them eat and drink and play”
1264
The Narrator: