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	The Pearl - LoveToKnow 1911 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		PEARL The Middle-English poem known as Pearl, or The Pearl, is preserved in the unique manuscript Cotton Nero Ax at the British Museum; in this volume are contained also the poems Cleanness, Patience, and Sir Gawayne and the Green Knight.
		Pearl is a poet's lament for the loss of a girl-child, "who lived not upon earth two years" - the poet is evidently the child's father.
		From the opposite bank Pearl, grown in wisdom as in stature, instructs him in lessons of faith and resignation, expounds to him the mystery of her transfiguration, and leads him to a glimpse of the New Jerusalem.
	www.1911encyclopedia.org /The_Pearl (876 words)

	Pearl (poem) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Pearl is a Middle English alliterative poem written in the late 14th century.
		The poem, an allegory of the genre known as dream vision is composed of 101 stanzas of 12 lines each with the rhyme scheme a b a b a b a b b c b c.
		The poem may be divided into three parts, an introduction, a dialog between the two main characters in which the Pearl instructs the narrator, and a description of the New Jerusalem with the narrator's awakening.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Pearl_(poem) (652 words)

	§1. Sources and Metre of "Pearl". XV. "Pearl, Cleanness, Patience and Sir Gawayne". Vol. 1. From the Beginnings to ...
		In a vision he beholds his Pearl, no longer a little child, transfigured as a queen of heaven; from the other bank of a stream which divides them she instructs him, teaches him the lessons of faith and resignation and leads him to a glimpse of the new Jerusalem.
		His Marguerite was, for him, the pearl of the Gospel; Mary, the queen of heaven, not Alcestis, queen of love, reigns in the visionary paradise which the poet pictures forth.
		The comparison of the two poems is a fascinating study, but there is no evidence of direct indebtedness; both writers, though their elegies are different in form, have drawn from the same sources.
	www.bartleby.com /211/1501.html (1182 words)

	Notes to Poem: The Pearl of Pearls: Meditations on 100
		Pearl symbolism: Lunar; the power of the waters; the essence of the moon and controller of tides; the embroyo; cosmic life; the divine essence; the life-giving power of the Great Mother; the feminine principle of the ocean; the self-luminous initiation; law in cosmic life; justice.
		The pearl was thought to be the result of lightning penetrating the oyster, hence it was regarded as the union of fire and water, both fecundating forces, and so denotes birth and rebirth; fertility.
		With the dragon of China, it is suggested as either the 'night-shining pearl', the moon, which the dragon of light swallows, or as a roll of thunder from which the flame of lightning emerges, the pearl being belched forth by the dragon of the sky.
	www.wisdomportal.com /Numbers/Notes-MeditationsOn100.html (2056 words)

	Pearl and Number Symbolism
		Christians borrowed pagan magic-by-analogy to interpret the parables and miracles of Jesus (e.g., the abundant nurturing of the gospel's message is signified in the feeding of the multitudes at the Sermon on the Mount by a small quantity of loaves and fishes).
		The imagery of the poem's conclusion also draws upon the apostle John's visionary analogy between marriage and the reunion of the soul with God.
		Pearl is especially concerned with the number "12" because of its relevance to the issue of divine abundance (esp. salvific grace), an abundance which the Dreamer doubts and which the Pearl-maiden defends.
	faculty.goucher.edu /eng240/pearl_and_number_symbolism.htm (1648 words)

	Pearl: Introduction
		Pearls appear throughout the transformed landscape of the crossed-over world: in the gems gleaming in the river, in the clothing of the maiden and indeed in the very whiteness of her skin, on the gates of the New Jerusalem, and, metaphorically, in the pearly fleece of the Lamb.
		While the pearl is of course a symbol for the evanescent or the spiritual, the child and/or immortal soul, and the narrator's search for the pearl an allegory for a spiritual search, the pearl lends the poem a peculiar materiality and presence; it is not just a point of departure.
		Gollancz's understanding of the poem as iambic tetrameter was based on an essay by C. Northup, "A Study of the Metrical Structure of the Middle English Poem The Pearl," PMLA 12 (1897), 326-40.
	www.lib.rochester.edu /camelot/teams/pearlint.htm (10270 words)

	Pearl: Bibliography
		"The Significance of the Garlande Gay in the Allegory of the Pearl." RES n.s.
		Blanch, R. "The Poems of the Pearl Manuscript: Pearl, Cleanness, Patience, Sir Gawain and the Green Knight edited by Malcolm Andrew and Ronald Waldron." Archiv fur das Studium der Neuerensprachen und Literaturen 220.1 (1983): 151-54.
		"The Pearl and Its Jeweler." PMLA 43 (1928).
	faculty.uca.edu /~jona/second/pearlbib.htm (2816 words)

	Pearl The: Free Encyclopedia Articles at Questia.com Online Library (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		The Pearl is usually explained as an elegy for the poet's young daughter; in an allegorical vision of singular beauty he sees her as a maiden in paradise and becomes reconciled to her death.
		Pearl, the very capstone of the historical...death and the subsequent elevation of the Pearl - Maiden over her father.
		The Fayre Formez of the Pearl Poet By Sandra Pierson Prior The Fayre Formez of the Pearl Poet SANDRA PIERSON PRIOR...
	www.questia.com /library/encyclopedia/pearl_the.jsp (1796 words)

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		The dreamer insists that the pearl he had lost is his child who had the fair and shining complexion of a pearl and denies that there is something ethereal which he cannot properly grasp with his ratio.
		The 'erber' of the first part of the poem represents the world, the earthly paradise portrays the spiritual side of man and the world where he is enabled to gain higher awareness of mind and the paradisus coelestis shows the eventual destiny of man's life, i.e.
		The threefold division of the material and the spiritual/divine can be found throughout the 'Pearl' poem and it portrays the deeply rooted obsession of the author with the Trinity and by square four (the four examples from this term paper), with the number 'twelve', which occurs everywhere in the poem.
	www.different-worlds.net /aw/tp_dreamvision.html (3477 words)

	The Pearl Study Questions
		While The Pearl includes a significant amount of alliteration (PRL xix, 32-33; see also examples of lines in original Middle English PRL 36-39), note that its primary poetic form is a complex 12-line rhyming stanza (PRL xvi-xvii); be able to describe rhyme pattern of that stanza fully.
		This over-lapping repetition is readily apparent as one reads through the poem from beginning to end; less obvious is the fact that a link-word, "content," also connects the last stanza of the poem to the first, where it "reappears" in the first line.
		in his portrait of the Pearl Maiden as a beautiful young woman (remember that she supposedly died at the age of two!) and in the language used to express the Dreamer's love for her, or the love between the Pearl Maiden and her "husband," the Lamb.
	cla.calpoly.edu /~dschwart/engl512/pearl.html (987 words)

	Book Reviews (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		Pearl counterpoints his witnessing concerns with poems like "Geronimo" (not about the Apache, but boys who yell the name in parachute play).
		Sherman Pearl is not afraid to be a poet who has much to say, not a fashionable activity in these days of passivity and a great deal of cultish poetry that is irrelevant to history or even to intense personal experience.
		I recommend THE POEM IN TIME OF WAR to readers who want to be entertained and at the same time join a poet in his imaginary travels and in his anxieties about the inescapable realities of war and "The Unthinkable," which was born at the original ground zero sixty years ago.
	www.lively-arts.com /books/0507/poem.htm (544 words)

	THE MYSTERY OF PATIENCE WORTH!
		Pearl had a maid to take care of the household chores and she and her husband enjoyed going to restaurants and to the theater.
		Pearl would usually just sit in a brightly lit room with her notebook or typewriter and when the messages began to come to her, she would begin to write.
		Pearl explained that as the words flowed into her head, she would feel a pressure and then scenes and images would appear to her.
	www.prairieghosts.com /pearl.html (1542 words)

	[minstrels] Palanquin Bearers -- Sarojini Naidu
		Softly, O softly we bear her along, She hangs like a star in the dew of our song; She springs like a beam on the brow of the tide, She falls like a tear from the eyes of a bride.
		If I could write just one poem full of beauty and the spirit of greatness, I should be exultantly silent for ever; but I sing just as the birds do, and my songs are as ephemeral." It is for this bird-like quality of song, it seems to me, that they are to be valued.
		Her collected poems, all of which she wrote in English, have been published under the titles The Sceptred Flute (1928) and The Feather of the Dawn (1961).
	www.cs.rice.edu /~ssiyer/minstrels/poems/390.html (935 words)

	Pearl Cleage
		As deeply moving in print as it was during that weekend of love and praise, the poem names each of the women honored: Dr.
		With heartfelt eloquence, Pearl Cleage (herself a luminary of the younger generation) celebrates her distinguished elders’ strength, their magic, their sensuality, their loving kindness, their faith in themselves, and the priceless example of their lives.
		Oprah Winfrey recommended Pearl Cleage's previous novel to her vast television audience, and soon readers—and listeners—were reveling in the joys—and aching over the sorrows—of life in tiny Idlewild, Michigan.
	authors.aalbc.com /cleagepearl.htm (1693 words)

	Pearl
		Pearl established its press, Pearl Editions, in 1989 in conjunction with the Pearl Poetry Prize, an annual competition for a book of poetry.
		Pearl Editions also publishes a limited number of poetry books and chapbooks by invitation only, and does not accept unsolicited manuscripts.
		In two long poems—"Reflections of a White Bear" and "Gathering Ghosts"—and a collection of selected poems, Carolyn Campbell speaks to the seasons of a woman's life and demonstrates her intense range of mood, memory and spiritual metaphor.
	www.pearlmag.com /pearled.html (2600 words)

	The Pearl Poem [Archive] - The Fuselage
		The poem is a kind of morality tale within a dream (this is a fairly common convention in Medieval works).
		The man sees the woman and believes her to be the pearl, a thing of beauty to be prized.
		Also the dream/waking states seem relevant, as well as the fact that in the dream he is between worlds, like the psychic's daughter when she drowns in the river stream.
	www.thefuselage.com /Threaded/archive/index.php/t-49014.html (350 words)

	Web Resources for Pearl-poet Study: A Vetted Selection
		As in the case of the Pearl text, subsequent tagging and alteration of the file happened at the University of Virginia until 1994; the University of Michigan and University of Virginia files have subsequently been revised independently.
		The poem's 14th Century English is close enough to modern English in syntax and vocabulary, that it is often possible to salvage large bits of his original poetry with only minor modifications.
		Contains a complete, partially modernized Middle English text of the poem, with difficult words glossed in a frame at the bottom of the screen (words in text that are glossed are clickable).
	www.ucalgary.ca /~scriptor/cotton/blog.html (1854 words)

	Pearl is a 14th
		Unlike SGGK, Pearl is an allegorical dream vision--in that sense, much more like some of the dreams and visions the knights had during the quest of the Grail.
		He sees his “little queen” in the long procession of maidens; in his effort to plunge into the stream and reach her he awakes, to find himself stretched on the child’s grave.
		Section XI, st. 51, is the thematic core of the poem.
	www.uwsp.edu /english/mbowman/321/Pearl.htm (539 words)

	Notes on the ME Pearl
		Sections: The poem has twenty sections, each containing five stanzas (except section XV [stanzas 71-76], which has six); stanzas are of twelve lines each, rhyming ABABABABBCBC.
		Unlike the Pearl, the Dreamer, even when he refers his happiness to Christ, must do so in a desperate way (lines 381-84); in addition, he makes no difference in level or value (if we can trust these links) between Christ's mercy (st. 31) and the "astate" of the child (st. 33).
		As A. Spearing has remarked, these poems isolate "the central fact of the human condition: that man lives in a world he did not make, and is at the mercy of non-human powers" (The Gawain-Poet 31).
	faculty.uca.edu /~jona/second/pearlnot.htm (827 words)

	Pearl Cleage Home
		Pearl Cleage is one of America's finest young writers.
		Pearl is shown here with her husband, Zaron Burnett.
		The weekend (and the poem!) will be featured on a special May 16, on ABC-TV at 8 p.m.
	www.pearlcleage.net (394 words)

	CJOnline.com \| The Topeka Capital-Journal \| Pearl Harbor inspired poetry 12/08/01
		The bombing of Pearl Harbor reverberated across the plains of Kansas in 1941 as families sent young men off to fight overseas and cutbacks created hardships at home.
		Harold Longaker, then a 17-year-old junior at Alma High School, couldn't get the bombing out of his mind for several weeks, and in the early months of 1942 he put pen to paper and created a poem to express his feelings.
		Longaker said his memories of Pearl Harbor came flooding back on Sept, 11 as airplanes again crashed on American soil and took thousands of lives.
	www.cjonline.com /stories/120801/pea_poem.shtml (785 words)

	Online NewsHour: Robert Pinsky Day Of Infamy -- December 7, 1998
		On the Anniversary of the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, NewsHour contributor and Poet Laureate of the United States Robert Pinsky shared a Pearl Harbor poem.
		The anniversary of Pearl Harbor with its loss and vulnerability changes its meaning as time passes, inevitably.
		Each was ages as those who remember it age — respect for those who fought in the Second World War and the loss of those who fell, the suffering of the wounded, the fears of those at home, all tend to become gradually more generalized and impersonal.
	www.pbs.org /newshour/bb/poems/july-dec98/pinsky_12-7.html (276 words)

	can anyone write me a poem about... - Pearl Jam Message Pit
		I want to give a poem to my teacher who has done so much for me...
		Your words and what they mean to you is what makes a poem special to someone else because they let a person feel and experience what you feel or see.
		Your poem is in your post, read it, write it to the teacher and not us.
	forums.pearljam.com /showthread.php?t=72490 (643 words)

	Pearl (disambiguation) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Pearl (jewlery), a round shiny object produced by molluscs and used in jewelry
		Pearl Harbor, the harbor in Oahu, Hawaii which was bombed by Japanese on December 7, 1941
		Pearls Before Swine (comic strip), a United Features syndicated comic strip written and illustrated by Stephan Pastis.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Pearl_(disambiguation) (455 words)

	The Hymn of the Pearl - The Acts of Thomas
		The text is known both as the "Hymn of the Pearl" and occasionally as "Hymn of the Robe of Glory".
		A.D. Our Poem is found in the text of the Syriac translation from the Greek of The Acts of Judas Thomas the Apostle; it has, however, evidently nothing to do with the original Greek text of these Acts, and its style and contents are quite foreign to the rest of the matter.
		This is borne out by the text of the Poem itself, in which the mention of the Parthians (38a) as the ruling race is decidedly in favour of its having been written prior to the overthrow of the Parthian dynasty in 224
	www.gnosis.org /library/hymnpearl.htm (2339 words)

	Re: [MOL] "PEARL POEM" [02804]
		Ross: What a wonderful poem you wrote, you are very artisitc.
		Your poem is wonderful, thanks for sharing it.
		>> >> A Pearl >> >> A pearl >> deep in the ocean >> gleems >> with the passing of time >> its shimmering beauty >> grows deeper more truly >> without >> these hands of mine.
	www.meds.com /archive/mol-cancer/1998/msg02804.html (705 words)

	The Poets, Isabella Whitney, Anne Dowriche, Elizabeth Melville [Colville], Aemilia Lanyer, Rachel Speght, Diane ...
		The volume is arguably the first genuinely feminist publication in England: all its dedicatees are women and the poem on the passion argues the virtues of women as opposed to the vices of men.
		Her other published work is the poetry reproduced in this volume Mortalities Memorandum (1621), consisting of the title poem (dealing with the personal reality of death) preceded by A Dreame, an allegory describing her thirst for learning.
		A Chaine of Pearle is the gift of a pearl necklace, consisting of ten pearls (poems), from Primrose to all noble ladies and gentlewomen.
	www.litencyc.com /php/adpage.php?id=2841 (531 words)

	The Teagle Foundation - President's Page: LibLog
		She quotes, to good advantage, George Herbert's poem "The Pearl," in which the metaphysical poet extols his education, but finds it a pearl of lesser price than his love for the person or divinity, to whom the poem is addressed:
		What an amazing poem and what an astonishing boast, still plausible in 1633 perhaps when The Temple was first printed, but so hard to replicate today.
		But ruminating about Herbert's poem and the old Shaker hymn makes me wonder whether the time hasn't come for simplicity, in life and in education, both.
	www.teaglefoundation.org /president/entry.aspx?id=20 (292 words)

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