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    chaucer on marriage

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    In The Merchant’s Tale and The Wife of Bath’s Tale‚ Chaucer looks at male and female perspectives on marriage and shows the entire institution to be a farce‚ stereotyped by wealthy‚ flaccid old men and young‚ beautiful‚ deceitful wives. January‚ the old man in the merchant’s tale‚ says "wedlok is so esy and so clene" (1264)‚ which is sarcastic as the merchant has already spoken out against marriage‚ and women in particular. Yet January’s motivations to get married are hardly pure‚ but more practical

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    chaucer satirization

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    Chaucer uses satire in the descriptions of the pilgrims in the "General Prologue" of The Canterbury Tales to reveal corruption in the Church that was prevalent in society. Many members of the clergy used their positions for personal gain. This can be seen in his cast of characters. Of all the pilgrims associated with the Church‚ the Parson is the only one who is honorable. One of the corrupt pilgrims is the Monk. The Monk disregards the rules that govern monasteries. The narrator is referencing

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    Chaucer was writing at a time when there was no tradition of personal poetry in a later Romantic sense: a poet never made his individual emotions the subject matter of his poetry.” (Woolf) Chaucer is often times regarded as the father of English literature. He is also widely considered one of the most significant‚ if not the top poet of the Middle Ages. One of his most incredible texts is known as the Canterbury Tales. This is a collection of over twenty stories that were written in Middle English

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    Ben Lucas 12/4/06 Paper #3 Chaucer 133 Analyzing Symbols and Symbolism in the Canterbury Tales In The Canterbury Tales‚ Chaucer uses his exemplary writing skills to employ a multitude of symbols and symbolic imagery to exercise his points. He uses symbols and symbolic imagery in many different ways and sometimes they are difficult to identify. Symbols were a large part of Chaucer ’s Canterbury Tales and they become very evident when reading the text with this theory in mind. When reading

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    turn all to sweetness. If I be she that may bring you gladness‚ for every woe you shall receive a bliss’: And him in her arms took and began to kiss. Addressed to Venus‚ goddess of Love‚ the poem also invokes Calliope‚ muse of epic poetry. Chaucer seems to use courtly love differently. He takes only the parts of the myth that he needs to fill out his story; he uses the whole courtly love structure‚ and goes beyond it. He includes all of the conventions: both lovers are stricken with

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    Poet Geoffrey Chaucer

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    Geoffrey Chaucer Geoffrey Chaucer is a English Poet and wrote the unfinished work‚ The Canterbury Tales. It is considered one of the greatest poetic works in English. Geoffrey Chaucer was born circa 1340 in London‚ England. In 1357 he became a public servant to Countess Elizabeth of Ulster. He continued to work as a public servant to the British court throughout his lifetime. The Canterbury Tales became his best known and most acclaimed work. He died October 25‚ 1400 of in London‚ England and was

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    TRENDS IN CONTEMPORARY BRITISH POETRY By Adeel Salman Knowledge of contemporary British poetry is of great importance when it comes to understanding the reigning trends of England. The 1970s saw a fair amount of polemic concerning the discontinuities of the national "traditions‚" most of it concerned with poetry‚ all of it vulnerable to a blunt totalizing which demonstrated the triumphant ability of "nation" to organize literary study and judgment--as it does still‚ perhaps more than ever.

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    Women and Love in Chaucer

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    Chaucer ’s opinion of women and his views on love are very prominently featured in his poetry. Focusing on women‚ one must first examine the popular views concerning women during Chaucer ’s time. Arlyn Diamond writes of Chaucer that‚ ". . . he accepts uneasily the medieval view of women as either better or worse than men‚ but never quite the same." (Green 3) This is evident in Chaucer ’s portrayal of women in such poems as "The Wife of Bath" and "The Clerk ’s Tale" which assault the reader with

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    Chaucer Parody

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    Chaucer Parody: The General Prologue Here begins the Tales of Bama Bound Orientation. Beginning in May when High Schools begin to grace seniors with the sweet ceremony of graduation and each student has declared and committed to their future universities. When high school principals bid their seniors adieu and their caps have been thrown; they go on trips to these universities in places near and far. Of those places is in the state of Alabama‚ and new students make their way to Tuscaloosa‚ to seek

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    of GEOFFREY CHAUCER GEOFFREY CHAUCER‚ English poet. The name Chaucer‚ a French form of the Latin calcearius‚ a shoemaker‚ is found in London and the eastern counties as early as the second half of the 13th century. Some of the London Chaucers lived in Cordwainer Street‚ in the shoemakers’ quarter; several of them‚ however‚ were vintners‚ and among others the poet’s father John‚ and probably also his grandfather Robert. Legal pleadings inform us that in December 1324 John Chaucer was not much

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