FAMOUS PLAYWRIGHT POET AND OTHERS
GEOFFREY CHAUCER
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The poem is known for being the first published book of poetry written in English language. Chaucer showed that English was a vehicle to express high literary contents and made poetry available to everyone
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It belongs to the ‘estate satire’ genre, with characters and stereotypes of that time. Chaucer included a great number of figures representing the rising merchant class.
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The Canterbury Tales is characterised by realism, Chaucer writes observing and describing the life around him, but also using the conventions of exaggeration, caricature and grotesque, typical of his age.What gives reality to the Tales is the dynamic frame of pilgrimage, the use of narrative frames was very frequent in medieval literature.
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Detailed explanation-1: -Geoffrey Chaucer is considered one of the first great English poets. He is the author of such works as The Parlement of Foules, Troilus and Criseyde, and The Canterbury Tales. Humorous and profound, his writings show him to be an acute observer of his time with a deft command of many literary genres.
Detailed explanation-2: -Chaucer is known for his metrical innovations. He invented Rhyme Royal stanza pattern which is a seven lined stanza in iambic pentameter with a rhyme scheme of ababbcc. He was also one of the first to use blank verse for his poetry with only a few anonymous short works using it before him.
Detailed explanation-3: -Chaucer wrote The Canterbury Tales in vernacular, Middle English, because that was the type of English spoken by the English people at the time. Since many works were written in French and Latin, there was a dearth of works in English.