Nombre: Song: Song of Roland

Date: Teacher:
Activity: 2
Module: 1
 The Middle Ages
• Poems
• The story is a heroic epic
• Catholicism theme
• Archaic language
• Formal text
• The wirtten language is mixed
• They use to sing the story
The Reinassance
• Late modern english
• They usedthe theatre
• The most adapted
• Introduction of narrator
• Introduction of characters
Spanish Golden Age
• Topics of the texts would be more
popular and appealing, but they also
had depth and pessimism.
• Excelled in literary production
• Culteranismo
• Conceptismo
• It begins with the birth of Cervantes
• It ends with the death of Pedro
Calderón
Poem:
Based on the text you chose, transform the content of it in forms of writing that
characterizes the literary texts of the periods: Middle Ages, Renaissance and Spanish
Golden Age (the same text in 2 different ways).

Original text Transformed text

Blancadrin spake: ‘‘By this my right hand and by the
beard that waves over my breast, you will very soon see
the army of the Frenchmen brought to nought. The
Franks will return to France, their own land, and when
each one is at the abode of his choice, Charles will be at
Aix in his chapel and he will be holding high revel at
Michaelmastide. The day will come and the apointed time
will pass, but of us no Word and no news shall he hear.
The King is proud and his heart is wrathful, he will have
our hostages beheaded. But it is far better that they lose
their heads than that we should lose Spain, the bright and
fair, and suffer evils and deprivations thereto.’’ The
heathen say ‘‘ Perhaps he speaks truth.’’
Blancadrin spoke: ‘ By my right hand and by the courage
i have, you will see soon the Frenchman lose. The Franks
will return to France, their home, and when everyone are
waiting for his choice, Charles will be at Aix-en –
Providence in his chapel and he will be holding high
pleasure at Michaelmastide. The day and the apointed
time will pass, nut no words or news he will hear. The
King is proud and his heart is enraged, he will behead our
hostages. But it is far better that they lose their heads
than we lose Spain, the bright and fair, and suffer evils
and deprivations like said before‘’ The heathen say
‘‘Perhaps he speaks the truth.’’
Explain what differences and similarities you identified in each of the texts
that emerged in these literary movements.
One difference for the song of roland and romeo and Juliet it can be that, the first one is the narration
of a warrior meanwhile the second one is a narration of a couple in love that have a tragic ending.
And a similarity they have is that the two of them are written in poetic meter.
Check the words you did not understand. Likewise, look at the meaning of the
customs that are portrayed that seem strange nowadays.

Nought: “to come to nothing” or “to fail.”

Abode: wait
Aix: the medievañ capital of providence
Revel: to take great pleasure
Thereto: to the thing that has been mentioned before