ENGL 203 Lecture Notes - Lecture 11: Aristocracy, Estates Of The Realm, Geoffrey Chaucer
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The allegory works on the literally level and symbolic level. The rose has not been plucked (has not had sex) Talking about that would not have been courteous to talk about his love. The arrow goes through the eye into the heart. The dreamer becomes the knight of the god of love. The commandments of cupid is the center of this poem. Falls in love with the rose through narcissus mirror. Talking about a god of lust not love. Renamed the poem mean the mirror of lovers. Opening lines of the romance of the rose. Uncourtly virtues are not allowed in the garden. He is allowed into the garden through pleasure. It"s spring time and evokes the spring of the romance of the rose. All these stories prove that english can be used for all genres. Is looking for the story that teach and delight the most. The church made these estates, putting them rst.
