Paradise Lost focuses mostly on a recipe for fruit salad from the Garden of Eatin’.

Sir Gawain’s lady is Gringolet.

The demons in hell are unappreciative of what Lucifer has done in Paradise Lost.

Edmund Spenser wrote his sonnets during his courtship of Queen Elizabeth.

In Beowulf, the mistrel sings a creations song that resembles “Caedmon’s Hymn”.

Equiano’s Chapter 2 on “The Middle Passage” is about hiking through the Cumberland Gap.

Sir Gawain and the Green Knight contains a supernatural challenge, which is a motif common to Arthurian romances.

Aphra Behn’s birth date and family are not known for certain.

In “The Imperfect Enjoyment”, the speaker curses his genitalia, wishing that it will never be capable of urination and that it be stricken with venereal disease.

Answer only one of the following prompts for this essay. It is worth 25 points. Be sure to answer the entire question using specific details.  Your answers should be at least 300 words. Use evidence from the text. Take the time to edit your responses. 1) Explore the consistently courteous courtly behavior of Sir Gawain. OR 2)  Shakespeare’s sonnets often upend expectations, rejecting the hyperbole of love poems and including (sometimes unattractive) realities while affirming what it means to be human. Explore this concept with examples format least 2 sonnets.