ENGL 2600 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Belphoebe, Yett, Chav
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The faerie queene: cantos 1 (1-23) and canto 3 (39-53) As if by lookes one may the mind aread archimago, guyon, the palmer, Guyon: embodiment of temperance but also learning through experience. The problem of pleasure; bower of blis; spenser"s pleasing verse. A comely palmer clad in black attyerand if by lookes one may the mind aread / he seemed to be a sage and sober syre and ever with slow pace the knight did lead . Judge someone based on how they look. But also acknowledges it is not certain. Looks as though palmer follows guyon, but that is the opposite of the truth. Queene / his artes he moves and out of caytives handes / himself he frees by secret meanes unseene / his shackles emptie left, him selfe escaped cleene. Discusses about archimago, the master magician or master of mirror . Archimago has powers that others do not, he is able to shape shit.
