From Chaucer's The Canterbury Tales excerpt that contradicts the claim made in the third line that the prioress speaks fluent French is "For French of Paris was not hers to know."
In the General prologue, Chaucer satirizes several characters from various classes and professions. Beginning with the highest class to lower. The first character whom Chaucer introduces is the Prioress who is a nun. She is the first among the female to be described, the first question that evokes in the reader's mind is that such higher religious clergy doesn't take a vow of leading a simple life? Hence, Chaucer satirizes the church, as the members of the church belonged from the upper class. The prioress took advantage from the poor for her own good. She was very well '<em>dainty</em>' and was well-dressed. Being known as <em>"Madame Eglantyne"</em>, she was so pretentious that she hardly knew any words of French.
Because the same things still go on. Even though they were written in a time long before us we can still relate. Just like with Antigone, People still only care about Power which makes them greedy and rude like Creon.
poems have stanzas and they sometimes rhyme and poems are sometimes shorter
The poem is dedicated to the author's father who was tortured and imprisoned during the Cultural Revolution.
In the first stanza of the poem, the author describes that how his father was a school principal and one day he caught a carp and everybody in the school tasted it. The poem emphasizes the importance in Chinese culture where it represents perseverance, luck, and success. Paradoxically, Wang writes that her son is named Carp and yet he died an early death.
The carp also represents a loss of innocence and the flawed nature of people with the lines "they had tasted the carp". This stanza shows how a good memory turned into a painful one.
