LITERATURE QUESTIONS
MEDIEVAL LITERATURE AND CULTURE
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Complete the following statement. Chaucer wrote his elegiac poem, “The Book of the Duchess, ” to praise the young Duchess of Lancaster who tragically died of:
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the Black Plague.
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unrequited love for John of Gaunt.
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drowning in the Thames.
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childbirth.
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Explanation:
Detailed explanation-1: -The framework of the poem is a dream motif structured in octosyllabic couplets. Chaucer’s use of the dream motif contributes to the poem’s theme of the brevity of love, the obtuseness of the dreamer, and springtime.
Detailed explanation-2: -Geoffrey Chaucer is known as the “Father of English Poetry".
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