What is the main message of the Prologue of The Canterbury Tales?
What is the main message of the Prologue of The Canterbury Tales?
His basic message is that he met up with lots of people all going to the same place–which happens in April since that’s when they get “pilgrimmage fever”–and they have decided to play a game of story telling on the way for entertainment.
What do we call the first 18 lines of the Prologue?
Translation
| First 18 lines of the General Prologue | |
|---|---|
| The tendre croppes, and the yonge sonne | The tender crops; and the young sun |
| Hath in the Ram his halfe cours yronne, | Has in the Ram his half-course run, |
| And smale foweles maken melodye, | And small fowls make melody, |
What is the first line of The Canterbury Tales?
The lines open Chaucer’s most ambitious poem, by suggesting that the elaborate set of framed stories about to unfold are as natural as the coming of Spring. Of Engelond to Caunterbury they wende, The hooly blisful martir for to seke, That hem hath holpen whan that they were seeke.
What are three major themes in The Canterbury Tales?
Social satire is the major theme of The Canterbury Tales. The medieval society was set on three foundations: the nobility, the church, and the peasantry. Chaucer’s satire targets all segments of the medieval social issues, human immorality, and depraved heart.
What is the summary of Canterbury Tales?
In The Canterbury Tales, a group of pilgrims traveling to Canterbury Cathedral compete in a storytelling contest. This overarching plot, or frame, provides a reason for the pilgrims to tell their stories, which reflect the concerns sparked by the social upheavals of late medieval England.
What are the last two lines of the prologue called?
The final two lines of a sonnet are called a couplet. A couplet is a pair of lines of verse that rhyme with each other and have the same meter, or number of stressed and unstressed syllables. The Shakespearean English version of the prologue has a stronger and more consistent rhythm because it rhymes and is in meter.
What is Chaucer saying about men?
“Yet do not miss the moral, my good men. Is written down some useful truth to tell. Then take the wheat and let the chaff lie still.”
