Model
Digital Document
Publisher
Florida Atlantic University
Description
Geoffrey Chaucer's poem. The Parliament of Fowls, has been acknowledged as an
intricate dream vision of balanced contrasts of ideas, double entendre words, classical
models, and rules of courtly love. Examining the heretofore unexamined voices invented
by Chaucer's narrator, l found that the ancient grammatical term of "middle voice,"
employed in recent linguistic criticism and theory, served to place the narrator inside his
world of reading, dreaming, and writing. As critic and poet. Chaucer offers the reader
new ways to think about ancient literary themes of reading. writing, listening, and telling
stories about love. The reader remains free to enjoy the narrator's voices in Parliament
from the opening line, "The lyf so short, the craft so long to Ierne," through the roundel
and closing.
intricate dream vision of balanced contrasts of ideas, double entendre words, classical
models, and rules of courtly love. Examining the heretofore unexamined voices invented
by Chaucer's narrator, l found that the ancient grammatical term of "middle voice,"
employed in recent linguistic criticism and theory, served to place the narrator inside his
world of reading, dreaming, and writing. As critic and poet. Chaucer offers the reader
new ways to think about ancient literary themes of reading. writing, listening, and telling
stories about love. The reader remains free to enjoy the narrator's voices in Parliament
from the opening line, "The lyf so short, the craft so long to Ierne," through the roundel
and closing.
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