Iambic Similes Of Geoffrey Chaucer

Geoffrey Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales are some of the most widely read and anthologized pieces of medieval poetry. These tales are generally celebrated and enjoyed because of the author’s use of wit and satire, as Chaucer often uses word play and characterization to deliver hard-hitting, yet entertaining truths about his time period. This is the case in “The Miller’s Tale,” which portrays the story of a carpenter with an adulterous wife and the shenanigans that take place during and after one of her affairs. After closely examining “Absalom’s Revenge,” the last section of this tale, it is clear to see that Chaucer uses language, puns, and other writing techniques to provide a commentary on the lewdness of some who lived during the Middle Ages.

Based on the research this is how Chaucer’s fictional characters were in actual life during the Middle Ages. An article stated,

(An analysis of Chaucer’s use of satire to reach his intended audience in his Canterbury Tales)

When Chaucer wrote the Canterbury Tales, the social structure of his world was changing rapidly.  Chaucer himself was a prime example of new social mobility being granted to members of the emerging middle class.  He had opportunities to come into contact not only with earthy characters from varied ports of call, but with the wealthy nobility.  He was also married to a knight's  daughter, someone of higher birth than himself, a clear demonstration of a more lenient class structure (pp. 76 - 77*).  As a member of this changing society, Chaucer had a keen perception of the attitudes and philosophies which were emerging and shaping the roles specific to people's lives.

Chaucer provides a light hearted tale about a love triangle, using cause and effect style stories, by the pilgrim narrators, to enhance the humour. The use of comedy provides a bawdy feel due to the topic, with lines like ‘This Nicholas anon leet fle a fart, as greet as it had been a thunder-dent.’ The humorous tone allows the tale to be taken with a pinch of salt and require little thought into the deeper meanings for

Geoffrey Chaucer was born in London around 1342, though the details are vague at best, and lived until 1400. Little is known of his early education, but his works show that he could read French, Latin, and Italian, and as such was clearly very well educated, and it is also known that he spent much of his life close to the centres of English power because the first reports of Chaucer come from 1357 as a page in the household of Prince Lionel before he went to serve for Edward III in France, where he was captured and ransomed. His first literary work appeared in the form of `The Book of the Duchess' in 1369, an allegory which grieves over the death of John of Gaunt's wife Blanche. Chaucer wrote many other works after this period but it was

Chaucer’s Observations in The Canterbury Tales Geoffrey Chaucer’s The Canterbury Tales is a series of stories describing the lives of regular people during the Medieval Period. Specifically in the General Prologue, Chaucer introduces a multitude of characters. The purpose of this is to provide a spectrum of personalities to the reader, whether they are political, religious, or of the common people.

At age 17, Chaucer was a public worker. He attended St.Paul's Cathedral School where he first met influential writing. He was also a moneyer (someone who mints) and was a public service worker. His public service time was very well documented, between his time being the noblewoman's page to a diplomat. His work life also has over 500 documents testifying to his career. He was also a courtier, civil servant, and even working for the

Geoffrey Chaucer was one of the most important authors during the Middle Age. His works spread in Europe too, but he’s better known for his masterpiece “The Canterbury Tales”. This work is about a pilgrimage to Canterbury where there are 29 people of different social classes. Chaucer, with the use of his prologue, also gives a description of different personalities of each character in the story.

The Age of Chaucer was an age of unrest and decay in all the fields of life. The corruption and decay was particularly reflected in the Christian Church of that age which gave rise to many satirical writers like Chaucer, Gower and Langland. Geoffrey Chaucer who was a representative writer of the age portrayed with crisp laconic vividness the materialism and avarice of the clergy as well as the moral laxity and luxury of the laity. His `Canterbury Tales' can be called an estates satire, in which the people belonging to the different layers of the class are satirized. As Chaucer himself belonged to the middle class and therefore he has chosen for his theme the portraits of people from the upper middle class and

Geoffrey Chaucer 's early life was very hard, whether it was from being a queen 's assistant to working as a kingsman. He had to work his way up in life. Geoffrey Chaucer 's family was of the Bourgeois Class and was known for making money off of the family wine businesses. From what people could tell, Chaucer 's father carried out the wine business. Chaucer as a young teenager went to St. Paul 's Cathedral School, where he first became acquainted with the influential writing of Virgil and Ovid. In 1357 Chaucer became a public servant to Countess Elizabeth of Ulster, the Duke of Clarence 's wife. Though this job was honorable he barely had enough to support himself with food and clothing. In 1359 the teenage Geoffrey Chaucer went off and

One of the most unique poets of during the Middle Ages was Geoffrey Chaucer. He was born in London sometime between 1340 and 1344. His parents were John Chaucer and Agnes Copton. John Chaucer was an affluent wine merchant and deputy to the king’s butler. Geoffrey held several opportunities early in his life serving as a noblewoman’s page, a courtier, a diplomat, a civil servant, and a collector of scrap metal. He was given theses oppurtunities because of who his father was and the role he played in society. There is not much about his early life. It was proven that he could speak French, Latin, and Italian.

Two best friends fighting to the death over a woman who wants to stay a virgin (Chaucer, Knight’s Tale), a woman and her lover tricking her husband into thinking a second global flood was coming and making him the fool of the town (Chaucer, Miller’s Tale), a pardoner tricking everyone of their money for fake relics and blessings (Chaucer, Pardoner’s Prologue), these are several of the satirical things that Chaucer writes about in The Canterbury Tales. Through symbolism, irony, humour, and wit, one can tell that by all his satire in his work, Chaucer is trying to get across a point to his readers. This point is that people act foolish, and they act even more foolish when it comes to them loving after something.

Geoffrey Chaucer was a famed late-14th century English poet and author. Born in London in 1343, Chaucer’s early life or education is not well known. Most of what is known about him stems from his professional work. He is most well-known for his works as an author and poet. Amongst scholars he is accredited the title of Father of English literature and is widely considered to be one of, if not outright, the greatest English poet of the Middle Ages. Chaucer would write many well-known works over the course of the latter half of his life, his most famous and critically acclaimed literary work being The Canterbury Tales. With Chaucer starting composition between 1386 and 1389, The Canterbury Tales was originally envisioned by him to be an anthology of four stories from each of the twenty-nine characters that are introduced in the General Prologue of the book. Unfortunately, either due to revising or his untimely death on October 25, 1400 at the age of 57, only 24 stories out of a proposed 120 were completed, leaving The Canterbury Tales far from completion. Nevertheless, its incomplete status did not stop the work from becoming highly popular. The Canterbury Tales’ story revolves around a narrator who joins a group twenty-nine people on a spring-time pilgrimage to Canterbury. Each character is described in detail of both their looks and personality by the narrator and at the request of the host of the inn the group stays at, each character tells an amusing story to spend time

Geoffrey Chaucer, The Author of the Canterbury Tales, is known as the Father of English Literature and is one of the greatest English Poets of the Middle Ages. Chaucer was a soldier, a diplomat, a civil servant, and a courtier, enabling him to experience different aspects of each social ranking, which he demonstrated through his poetry. The Canterbury Tales, his most famous work, is a collection of short stories within a frame story, making for an interesting and memorable narrative about 29 pilgrims and their journey to Canterbury. Chaucer included a variation of personalities, which helped to define each of the social classes in The Middle Ages. Each character were to tell two tales on the journey to Canterbury and two tales returning from Canterbury. Chaucer portrays charitable characteristics through the Plowman and the Parson and opposite traits such as selfishness and corrupt behavior through the Monk, Manciple, Friar and Pardoner. Chaucer combined each social class to exemplify the differences of each character, whether charitable or selfish, which shed light to the discrepancy between how one acts versus how one is perceived.