https://padlet.com/martinaoliva105/w5zxrk56wlu4 We created an interactive poetics of Geoffrey Chaucer featuring images, videos and presentations. en-us 2017-03-03 20:00:39 UTC 2025-12-08 09:06:15 UTC hello@padlet.com https://padlet-assets.s3.amazonaws.com/icons/Lightdecrease.png martinaoliva105 https://padlet.com/martinaoliva105/w5zxrk56wlu4/wish/157739030 2017-03-03 20:47:48 UTC https://padlet.com/martinaoliva105/w5zxrk56wlu4/wish/157739030 martinaoliva105 https://padlet.com/martinaoliva105/w5zxrk56wlu4/wish/157739398 2017-03-03 20:50:01 UTC https://padlet.com/martinaoliva105/w5zxrk56wlu4/wish/157739398 martinaoliva105 https://padlet.com/martinaoliva105/w5zxrk56wlu4/wish/157740118 2017-03-03 20:54:26 UTC https://padlet.com/martinaoliva105/w5zxrk56wlu4/wish/157740118 martinaoliva105 https://padlet.com/martinaoliva105/w5zxrk56wlu4/wish/159014250 Author of the immortal Canterbury Tales, GEOFFREY CHAUCER (ca. 1340—1400) is the undisputed father of English poetry. His pitch-perfect, melodic versification demonstrated the riches of the evolving language’s resources, while his memorable portraits of many human types glow with warmth and humor. A man of affairs as well as literature, he served as a diplomat and customs officer; when he died, his burial in Westminster Abbey inaugurated Poets’ Corner. ]]> 2017-03-09 15:47:07 UTC https://padlet.com/martinaoliva105/w5zxrk56wlu4/wish/159014250 martinaoliva105 https://padlet.com/martinaoliva105/w5zxrk56wlu4/wish/159017881 An image of Geoffrey Chaucer

]]> 2017-03-09 15:55:14 UTC https://padlet.com/martinaoliva105/w5zxrk56wlu4/wish/159017881 martinaoliva105 https://padlet.com/martinaoliva105/w5zxrk56wlu4/wish/159052976 Chaucer's vocabulary.

The great majority of the words Chaucer uses are the same in meaning and function as their Modern English counterparts. They usually differ greatly in spelling. But this initial difficulty soon disappears as one reads especially if one reads the text aloud. It is soon apparent that "y" and "i" are interchangeable and no one can have much difficulty with a phrase such as "the Frenssh of Paris." Indeed, in some ways Chaucer's vocabulary may be easier for a modern reader than it would have been for many unsophisticated Middle English readers.
This is because one of the most important characteristics of his language and style is his practice of "borrowing" from mainly French and Latin. He and his contemporaries introduced ("borrowed") words into the English language, moving them practically unchanged from Latin or French into English. ]]> 2017-03-09 17:14:40 UTC https://padlet.com/martinaoliva105/w5zxrk56wlu4/wish/159052976 martinaoliva105 https://padlet.com/martinaoliva105/w5zxrk56wlu4/wish/159065602  Chaucer's style.

Chaucer was the first poet who wrote in English, in a new and original way, completely free from any influence.He also wrote with metrical accuracy, fluency and variety, paying constant heed to rhythm and tone. The characteristics of Chaucer's poetry are a wonderful power of portraying characters, a rich humour, a deep feeling and a love for the beauties of nature. He is considered the first man of the Renaissance in England for his open-minded, kindly and generous nature. Chaucer creates a poetic form, later called "rhyme royal", which will have many imitators in the English literature. It is a rhyming stanza formed by seven lines usually in iambic pentameter. The rhyme scheme is a-b-a-b-b-c-c.]]> 2017-03-09 17:45:07 UTC https://padlet.com/martinaoliva105/w5zxrk56wlu4/wish/159065602 martinaoliva105 https://padlet.com/martinaoliva105/w5zxrk56wlu4/wish/159071473 Italian poets' influence.

Chaucer is inspired by Italian poets, especially Dante, Petrarch and Boccaccio. He adopts from Boccaccio the organizing principle of the plot frames, while individual stories are original works of Chaucer. Their works have similarities because Chaucer translates it and put some pieces of Boccaccio in his own works. Both, finally, are far from the intellectual prototype, figure completely unknown
until recent times]]> 2017-03-09 18:01:51 UTC https://padlet.com/martinaoliva105/w5zxrk56wlu4/wish/159071473 martinaoliva105 https://padlet.com/martinaoliva105/w5zxrk56wlu4/wish/159072829 2017-03-09 18:06:37 UTC https://padlet.com/martinaoliva105/w5zxrk56wlu4/wish/159072829 martinaoliva105 https://padlet.com/martinaoliva105/w5zxrk56wlu4/wish/159073292 2017-03-09 18:08:09 UTC https://padlet.com/martinaoliva105/w5zxrk56wlu4/wish/159073292 martinaoliva105 https://padlet.com/martinaoliva105/w5zxrk56wlu4/wish/159075036 2017-03-09 18:13:17 UTC https://padlet.com/martinaoliva105/w5zxrk56wlu4/wish/159075036 martinaoliva105 https://padlet.com/martinaoliva105/w5zxrk56wlu4/wish/159128665 CHAUCER'S LINGUISTIC.

Chaucer wrote in continental accentual-syllabic meter, a style which had developed since around the twelfth century as an alternative to the alliterative Anglo-Saxon metre. Chaucer is known for metrical innovation, and he was one of the first English poets to use the five-stress line, a decasyllabic cousin to the iambic pentameter, in his work, with only a few anonymous short works using it before him. The arrangement of these five-stress lines into rhyming couplets, first seen in his The Legend of Good Women, was used in much of his later work and became one of the standard poetic forms in English. His early influence as a satirist is also important, with the common humorous device, the funny accent of a regional dialect, apparently making its first appearance in The Reeve's Tale. 

]]> 2017-03-09 20:40:56 UTC https://padlet.com/martinaoliva105/w5zxrk56wlu4/wish/159128665 martinaoliva105 https://padlet.com/martinaoliva105/w5zxrk56wlu4/wish/159131007 2017-03-09 20:49:20 UTC https://padlet.com/martinaoliva105/w5zxrk56wlu4/wish/159131007 martinaoliva105 https://padlet.com/martinaoliva105/w5zxrk56wlu4/wish/160253915 The plot.

It is a spring and thirty people, men, women, monks, artisans, merchants and also the narrator, Geoffrey Chaucer himself, are going on a pilgrimage. They are travelling to Canterbury in Kent to the shrine of Thomas Becket. They gather at the Tabard Inn in London. The host of the inn suggets that every pilgrim should tell two story. He says that there will be a prize for the best story and a penality for anyone who gives up.]]> 2017-03-15 14:07:38 UTC https://padlet.com/martinaoliva105/w5zxrk56wlu4/wish/160253915