Hilarious! As a school project we once had to perform Chaucer in class and my friends and I discovered that his verse is perfectly metered for rapping. Thus we were able to engage an otherwise uninterested lot and have heaps of fun. Try it yourself with this selection from the summoner's tale. Imagine a beatbox in the background and don't forget to stress the last word of each line: "High in his stirrups, then, the summoner stood; Against the friar his heart, as madman's would, Shook like very aspen leaf, for ire. "Masters," said he, "but one thing I desire ... " Old Geoffrey was born way to early in my opinion. Yeah, boyeeee! Yo!
I may well end up buying one of his t-shirts. My favourite is the one saying "Okaye so sometymes it raineth in March: make notte a chancerye case of the whole matter". I spent far too long struggling with the General Prologue in my youth.
Elsewhere in English literature, the opening lines of Paradise Lost go perfectly with the theme to the Flintstones.
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ReplyDeleteAs a school project we once had to perform Chaucer in class and my friends and I discovered that his verse is perfectly metered for rapping. Thus we were able to engage an otherwise uninterested lot and have heaps of fun. Try it yourself with this selection from the summoner's tale. Imagine a beatbox in the background and don't forget to stress the last word of each line:
"High in his stirrups, then, the summoner stood;
Against the friar his heart, as madman's would,
Shook like very aspen leaf, for ire.
"Masters," said he, "but one thing I desire ... "
Old Geoffrey was born way to early in my opinion.
Yeah, boyeeee! Yo!
I may well end up buying one of his t-shirts. My favourite is the one saying "Okaye so sometymes it raineth in March: make notte a chancerye case of the whole matter". I spent far too long struggling with the General Prologue in my youth.
ReplyDeleteElsewhere in English literature, the opening lines of Paradise Lost go perfectly with the theme to the Flintstones.