 Complete the following phrase:  Times, dates, seasons, and cycles within Gawain are often noted by scholars because of their symbolic nature. The story starts on New Years Eve with a beheading and culminates one year later on the next New Years Day. Gawain leaves Camelot on All Saints Day and arrives at Bertilaks castle on Christmas Eve. Furthermore, the Green Knight tells Gawain to meet him at the Green Chapel in a year and a dayin other words, the next New Years Day. Some scholars interpret the yearly cycles, each beginning and ending in winter, as the poets attempt to convey the inevitable fall of all things good and noble in the world. Such a theme is strengthened by the image of 