Levels of Symbolic Meaning in Pearl

Authors

Laurence J. Krieg

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Artist
Patrick Dengate

Abstract

Using Tolkien’s translation, examines three levels of meaning in the Middle English poem. Calls it a poem “into which is woven an intense and organic symbolism of the Christian doctrine of death and eternal life.”

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