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The Song of Roland

Introduction

A heroic poem “The Song of Roland” is based on the 778s Roncesvalles Battle which was took place in the era of Charlemagne. It is one of the oldest major works of surviving literature of French. Now, for the readers it is present in several versions of manuscript for testifying its enduring and enormous fame in the centuries from 12th to 14th. The manuscript of the Oxford is the oldest which holds a text of 4,004 lines and was generally the time of between 1140 & 1170. The classic poem is the most fabulous example of de geste which is a form of literacy that prospered from the 11th to 15th centuries and highlighted the outstanding conducts of a hero.

Discussion

In this poem, the poet portrays the European feudalism on the social structure of the Saracen and it is because of the poet that he could not think about any social structure than it nor were the exotic enemies unique to the composer of this poem. All the stories about the ancient times of Greece have some depictions in its stories regarding the feudal kings and knights and for this, Shakespeare most of the time re-molded his mysterious settings in something which could make some resemblance to the Elizabeth of England.

The poet repeats the moments in the poem again and again that there is some type of shutter-effect that at times appears as something delivering distinctive versions of similar things. A most see able moment is described in the poem in three ways differently. The poet tries to elaborate his point of view three times about the Ronald that he gives glove to God (lines 2373 and 2374). The poet also stated that angels come to the Roland (line 2396). This is one of the best distinctive qualities of the poem that it makes the values of warfare of the knights in accordance with the values of the religion of Christianity. According to him, to serve a king who belongs to Christianity is parallel to serve God in the war battle. The poem takes into consideration some of the purposes as well regarding the fairly brutal constituents. The actions of the Charlemagne which he showed after the Saragossa's conquest generally do not seem as appropriate in the ideas of today's readers as he destroyed all the items which are sacred to other people's beliefs and then executed someone who refused to accept Christianity. Without any feelings of sarcasm, the poet elaborates that Bramimonde thought to be brought back in France as a captive for converting later but through love not violence (line 3274). As per the purpose and time, all the actions which were taken against Moslems by the Christians were above in all the judgments and it was strongly justified. The crude and unsophisticated ideology behind the poem is depicted in a lot of the qualities such as clean, symmetry, tidy, qualities which are full of psychological appeals, a ...