cantos V essays

cantos V essays The portion of Canto V that I focused on revolves around two different stories that share similarities. The first story focuses on a man and his wife. The second is about two brothers. The first story begins with a man, Poicebot, who becomes lustful and leaves his wife in search of other women. While Poicebot is gone a knight from England seduces his wife. The knight leaves her after eight months and she too decides to leave her house. Poicebot, coming from Spain and still searching for other women goes into a brothel. The first woman presented to him was his wife. The second story is about two brothers. In the book it starts with the line And Pieire won the singing, Pieire de Maensac, This is describing what happened with Pieire de Maensac and his brother Austors de Maensac. Both men were troubadours. They tossed a coin to see who would get the castle and who would continue being a troubadour. Austors got the castle, therefore Pieire was still a troubadour. Pieire fell in love with Tyndarida, the wife of a man named Bernart de Tierci. Tyndarida left de Tierci and stayed with Pieire. Ezra Pound is juxtaposing the two stories. Hes trying to display the opposing attitudes of Poicebot and Pieire towards things like sex and property. Poicebot, whose only concern is his property and sex, ends up losing his wife and his property. In contrast to Poicebot is Pieire. Pieire is a troubadour that is careless of property and in the end keeps the woman that he loves. ...