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Section VI
March 24—
24—April 5
CARMINA BURANA
1. FORTUNA: What imagery is used to depict Fortune in the Carmina Burana? How does it respond to
Boethius' discussion? How do the protagonists of the Carmina Burana songs seem to deal, or come to terms,
with Lady Fortune? Is there anything instructional or elevating about the Carmina Burana songs, or do you
see them as being meant purely for entertainment?
2. PERSONAE: Who were these singers of drinking, gambling, and love? Are the poetic personae in the
various carmina highly imagined and conventional,
conventional, or personal and autobiographical? Which poems seem to
draw from literary convention and which, if any, seem to derive from a poet's individual experience? Why?
3. LOVE: What sort of picture is painted of love in the Carmina Burana? How similar
similar is this to the love in
the medieval responses to the Song of Songs? Are there any differences in the way love is expressed in the
Latin and the vernacular poems?
PRUDENTIUS
1. ALLEGORY When does it become clear that the Psychomachia is an allegory? Do the personifications
in Prudentius
Prudentius have any individuality? How do the Scriptures influence the allegory? Which scriptural
personages appear in the poem? How are virtues matched with vices? How do punishments fit vices?
2. CHRISTIAN EPIC AND VIOLENCE Is the term "Christian epic" an oxymoron?oxymoron? What are the problems
inherent in a Christian epic? How can the violence be reconciled with Christianity?