Bibliography lists 3 sources. A 5 page paper which examines the use of imagery in the works titled The Wanderer and The Song of Roland. Each of these works illustrates a different use of imagery. Where The Wanderer gives the reader many easily depicted illustrations of imagery, The Song of Roland and its use of imagery are much more subtle and evasive. The imagery examined includes sight, smell, taste, touch, sense, and hearing.
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The writer argues that these two poems can be read simultaneously at three levels. On one level the poems describe the events that help to mark the human year the coming of spring and the celebration of the harvest. On the other hand, these events of the human year are reflective of the natural order, the passage of the seasons, and the cyclical nature of time. No additional sources cited. The paper looks closely at the poem's argument that Nature provides solace from the fear of Death, and shows why this appealed to a nation coming out of the stranglehold of Puritanism.