The Book of the Duchess, the Parliament of Fowls, and the House of Fame

The disc of the Duchess, the Parliament of Fowls, and the star sign of FameThe Parliament of Fowls and the domicile of Fame are closely re recentd to each other and to the Book of the Duchess, as all tether of the poetry share several similar themes. create verbally between 1368 and 1380 they are some of Chaucers earliest works in which aspects of some of the great writers of his time are evident. thither are lead major themes intertwined within the three works, which Chaucer has added to the Dream Vision genre. The first work, perhaps written from 1368-1372, the Book of the Duchess begins with the love-sick narrator finally falling asleep as he reads the sad love story of Seys and Alcyone (originally written by Ovid). He dreams that he is in bed early in the morning, hence out hunting in the forest. He follows a dog carry out a path and finds a knight dressed in pitch- dim who laments the loss of his lady. The narrator forces the knight to tell him about her, eventuall y discipline that she is dead. The other hunters reappear, a bell strikes, and the narrator awakes. written in the after-hours 1370s, the House of Fame consists of three books, and unfortunately is incomplete. A short prologue on dreams and an incantation to sleep precedes book one, which tells of the narrators visit to the Temple of water ice where he finds images, suggested by book four and other parts of Virgils Aeneid. Seized by a chatty golden eagle at the inauguration of book two, he is carried up into the House of Fame, which is located in the heavens. thither he sees, during book three, images of famous writers in particular he sees how imperious Fame is. Beside the House of Fame he sees the Labyrinth, representing all the complexity of hu populace existence. A composition of gret auctorite (H... ...ay. Through the use of several references to famous texts, Chaucer helped explain his poetry to his sense of hearing at the time and to us now. Sources CitedAntho ny. http//www.sogang.ac.kr/anthony/books/Med4.htmhttp//www.sogang.ac.kr/anthony/books/Med4.htm (3 May, 2003)Boitani, Piero. The Cambridge Chaucer Companion. ed. Boitani, Piero &Mann, Jill. New York Cambridge University Press, 1998.Psonak, Kevin. The Geoffrey Chaucer Website Homepage Mar 5, 2003. http//www.courses.fas.harvard.edu/chaucer/ (3 May, 2003)Robinson, F.N., ed. The Works of Geoffrey Chaucer. capital of Massachusetts Houghton Mifflin Company, 1961.Stanbury, Sarah. Prior http//www.holycross.edu/departments/english/sstanbur/Prior.htm (3 May, 2003) Thundy, Zacharias P.. THE BOOK OF THE DUCHESS AN ELEGY OR ATEDEUM? http//www.nd.edu/zthundy/BD.html (3 May, 2003) Lohr 1 The Book of the Duchess, the Parliament of Fowls, and the House of FameThe Book of the Duchess, the Parliament of Fowls, and the House of FameThe Parliament of Fowls and the House of Fame are closely related to each other and to the Book of the Duchess, as all three of the poetry share several simil ar themes. Written between 1368 and 1380 they are some of Chaucers earliest works in which aspects of some of the great writers of his time are evident. There are three major themes intertwined within the three works, which Chaucer has added to the Dream Vision genre. The first work, possibly written from 1368-1372, the Book of the Duchess begins with the love-sick narrator finally falling asleep as he reads the sad love story of Seys and Alcyone (originally written by Ovid). He dreams that he is in bed early in the morning, indeed out hunting in the forest. He follows a dog overcome a path and finds a knight dressed in black who laments the loss of his lady. The narrator forces the knight to tell him about her, eventually scholarship that she is dead. The other hunters reappear, a bell strikes, and the narrator awakes. Written in the late 1370s, the House of Fame consists of three books, and unfortunately is incomplete. A short prologue on dreams and an invocation to sleep precedes book one, which tells of the narrators visit to the Temple of wish-wash where he finds images, suggested by book four and other parts of Virgils Aeneid. Seized by a chatty golden eagle at the hold out of book two, he is carried up into the House of Fame, which is located in the heavens. There he sees, during book three, images of famous writers in particular he sees how overbearing Fame is. Beside the House of Fame he sees the Labyrinth, representing all the complexity of human existence. A man of gret auctorite (H... ...ay. Through the use of several references to famous texts, Chaucer helped explain his poetry to his reference at the time and to us now. Sources CitedAnthony. http//www.sogang.ac.kr/anthony/books/Med4.htmhttp//www.sogang.ac.kr/anthony/books/Med4.htm (3 May, 2003)Boitani, Piero. The Cambridge Chaucer Companion. ed. Boitani, Piero &Mann, Jill. New York Cambridge University Press, 1998.Psonak, Kevin. The Geoffrey Chaucer Website Homepage Mar 5, 20 03. http//www.courses.fas.harvard.edu/chaucer/ (3 May, 2003)Robinson, F.N., ed. The Works of Geoffrey Chaucer. capital of Massachusetts Houghton Mifflin Company, 1961.Stanbury, Sarah. Prior http//www.holycross.edu/departments/english/sstanbur/Prior.htm (3 May, 2003) Thundy, Zacharias P.. THE BOOK OF THE DUCHESS AN ELEGY OR ATEDEUM? http//www.nd.edu/zthundy/BD.html (3 May, 2003) Lohr 1