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on The Canterbury Tales; PROLOGUE by Geoffrey Chaucer, on September 22, 2006He finished the Prologue, yes, but he didn't finish the Canterbury Tales as a whole. Didn't come close.
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on Daddy by Sylvia Plath, on October 19, 2005Then you haven't read into the poem; with poetry like this, you can't take it for face value.
We read this last week in my poetry class; while we read this, we discussed it to great length, and concluded that, while she'd loved her father dearly when he was alive, she'd tried to live in a way that would've made him proud, and it wasn't until about twenty years or so after his death that she realized she had to let go, and this was her way of doing it. Of course, it goes even deeper than that, but that's the jist of the piece. -
on The Canterbury Tales; PROLOGUE by Geoffrey Chaucer, on February 18, 2005It's a real shame Chaucer was unable to finish the Canterbury Tales as a whole; as it is, however, just the Prologue itself is a masterpiece of poetry ingenuity. Chaucer doesn't bother to use complicated metaphors or cryptic language; he just tells it exactly how he envisions it, and though the language he uses is simple, it is powerful and strikes a deep chord within the reader. A truly magnificent piece that has yet be paralleled in quality, let alone surpassed.
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on Against Women Unconstant by Geoffrey Chaucer, on February 18, 2005True; if one studied his poems, they'd find the syntax, grammar and overall word usage are quite similar to how today's "Modern English" is spoken, but because of the way things were spelt back then, one would be hard-pressed to find those striking similarities.
