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In "The Prologue" of Chaucer's The Canterbury Tales, the Chaucer's main reason for writing about the pilgrimage is to create a setting for telling stories by different characters.
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The prologue of "Chaucer's The Canterbury Tales" by Geoffrey Chaucer and Percy MacKaye starts with the welcoming of spring which provides as the season represents a vibrant, colorful, and full of life moment in time, where the characters appear and give the first traits of their personalities to develop the story later.
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A. Major Themes in “I Dwell in Possibility”: Power of poetry, nature, and joy are the major themes of this poem. Throughout the poem, the poet tries to develop the idea that poetry possesses an ultimate power and that it is superior to other genres of literature.
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The lines describing the time of the year are:
When April with his showers sweet with fruit ----- 1
The drought of March has pierced unto the
root ---------2
When Zephyr also has, with his sweet breath, ----------5
Quickened again, in every holt and heath, ----------------6
Then do folk long to go on pilgrimage ---------------------13
Chaucer focuses on these sensory details because he is trying to emulate some Latin and Greek authors who introduce their poems by creating inspiration through a muse. Chaucer then chooses to create inspiration by describing a natural phenomenon of the earth replenishing itself.
From the lines above, the season of the year is spring just after winter. The description implies spring as a symbol of rebirth and new life. A time when the earth replenishes itself after the dry air of winter, a time when there is rain, fresh air and when people long to go on pilgrimage.
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