Yes, it does have that 'læne lif' vibe; no doubt why I thought of 'Time'. I love it for the intensity of description, it's almost the directions for the cinematography [0].
I do get your angst; I came very unstuck with vasselage doing Roland. In my head, I know _exactly_ what vasselage is, finding a neat modern word for it . . I was onto a looser there *sigh*
Um, The forme to the fynisment foldes ful selden. If (like a lot of commentators), you take forme to be like the Platonic form, the ideal form (like in Pearl), then fynishment becomes the physical reality, so you could get something like 'the form [pattern] to the final piece conforms but infrequent', if I'm trying to keep the 'f' alliteration and line length.
[0] Walking to work, I was musing on how Gawain should be filmed (not by Hollywood!!) and that various bits of Dark Side of the Moon would make for a better soundtrack than cod medieval: 'the tolling of the iron bell, calls the faithful to their knees' would be so perfect for the Green Chapel. But that's a whole other essay . . . . (on the English elegiac tradition?)
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Date: 2009-02-27 02:01 pm (UTC)I do get your angst; I came very unstuck with vasselage doing Roland. In my head, I know _exactly_ what vasselage is, finding a neat modern word for it . . I was onto a looser there *sigh*
Um, The forme to the fynisment foldes ful selden.
If (like a lot of commentators), you take forme to be like the Platonic form, the ideal form (like in Pearl), then fynishment becomes the physical reality, so you could get something like 'the form [pattern] to the final piece conforms but infrequent', if I'm trying to keep the 'f' alliteration and line length.
[0] Walking to work, I was musing on how Gawain should be filmed (not by Hollywood!!) and that various bits of Dark Side of the Moon would make for a better soundtrack than cod medieval: 'the tolling of the iron bell, calls the faithful to their knees' would be so perfect for the Green Chapel. But that's a whole other essay . . . . (on the English elegiac tradition?)