After reading the first Canto of Edmund Spenser's The Faerie Queen, I was pleasantly surprised at how much I enjoyed and understood it. We discussed in class how the Red Cross Knight was wearing armor that was not his, "Yet armes till that time did he never wielde..." I found this interesting when I began reading. The knight is young and untested, his innocence is possibly a weakness that will afflict him later in Book I. The description of the knight goes on further to explain that he is fearless and on a quest given to him by the Faerie Queen to slay a terrible dragon. I also found it interesting that the knight had a fair lady companion with him (Una). She rode on a white donkey with a white lamb. The passage explained that she was "so pure an innocent, as that same lamb..." I think that through this journey, Una will serve as a guiding, moral light for the knight. She may be the voice of reason that he needs to make it through his journey unscathed by the foes they encounter along the way.
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