Learning about the Middle Ages through Poems and Song....

People in the Middlie Ages wrote poems and sung about thier sorrow, guilt and whatever they were going through in thier life. The first poem Lord Randell. It was about a man coming home to his mother and sick onthe stomach. the mother is concern and starts to ask question and continully tells her that he is sick on the stomach. He finally tells her that he was dinning with a woman and that she might have posioned him. That is some poem to me. I wold have never thought of someone writing about getting posioned.

The Next story Edward, Edward was about killing. He killed a hawk, horse, and then he killed his father. Now he wants to flee. He wasn't going leave anything for his wife or childeren and for his mother he left the curse of her counsling. So people in those says wrote about betrayal and the wrong that they did.


The last poem was about a husband and wife that were both busy doing chores around the house and neither one of them could lock the door. As they sat down to eat who ever talked first had to get up and lock the door. This poem illistrates that even though in those times there was alot of grief, peolple still had thier times for fun and games.

Now in days people write poems about the past the future and what's going on inthe world. I think that the Middle ages may have really influenced poems and songs to be about reality in peoples lives.