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Works of Stephen Crane: Red Badge Of Courage: Chapters 1 and 2

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From: Monarch Notes
Date: 19630101
Author:Crane, Stephan

Crane, Stephan
Monarch Notes
01-01-1963
Red Badge Of Courage: Chapters 1 and 2

Chapter 1

The opening chapter of The Red Badge of Courage begins with a striking
variant version of a conventional literary "beginning," that of the reverdie,
or "welcome to Spring." The opening of Chaucer's Canterbury Tales is a famous
example of a high rhetorical treatment of the motif, as is Surrey's poem,
"Description of Spring, Wherein Each Thing Renews Save Only the Lover:"

The soote season that bud and bloom forth brings
With green hath clad the hill and eke the vale,
The nightingale with feathers new she sings,

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