GEOFFREY CHAUCER

   

The English poet Geoffrey Chaucer is considered the first founder of the English language. Canterbury Tales poem is best, work to English Literature.

                        His family name is derived, from the French chasseur, meaning "shoemaker." In 1324, John Chaucer the father, of Chaucer was kidnapped, by an aunt. In the hope of marrying the 12-year-old to her daughter in an attempt to keep the property in Ipswich. The aunt was imprisoned and fined, which suggests that the family was financially secure. Chaucer died of unknown causes on 25 October 1400, although the only evidence for this date comes from the impact on his tomb, which was built more than 100 years after his death.
 There is some suspicion that he was killed- by enemies of Richard II or even on the orders of his heir Henry IV, but the case is entirely uncertain. Chaucer was buried in Westminster Abbey in London, as was his right owing to his status as a holder of the Abbey's close. In 1556, his remains were transferred to a more fine tomb, making him the first writer interred in the area now known as Poets' Corner. 
 There is some suspicion that he was killed- by enemies of Richard II or even on the orders of his heir Henry IV, but the case is entirely uncertain. Chaucer was buried in Westminster Abbey in London, as was his right owing to his status as a holder of the Abbey's close. In 1556, his remains were transferred to a more fine tomb, making him the first writer interred in the area now known as Poets' Corner. 

    CANTERBURY TALE POEM

                          The poem CANTERBURY TALE is a collection of 24 stories. It has built around a structured narrative about a group of pilgrims making their travel to Canterbury. The work speaks about gender relations, religion, and sexual immorality in English society. He critiques members of the nobility, clergy, and peasantry, who were often in a fight with each other, and uses irony to call attention to the pilgrim's hypocrisy. Chaucer reveals the view of human failings by exposing the pilgrim's distraction with worldly endeavors while on a religious pilgrimage to Canterbury Cathedral.

 LIST OF TALES/ GENERAL PROLOGUE

               The narrator reports the tale of the Knight and followed by the Miller, the Reeve, the Cook, the Man of law, the Wife of bath, the Friar, the Sompnour, the Clerk, the Merchant, the Squire, the Franklin, the Doctor, the Pardoner, the Shipman, the Prioress, Chaucer's Tale of Sir Thopas, Chaucer's Tale of Meliboeus, the Monk, the Nun's priest, the Second Nun, the Canon's Yeoman, the Manciple and the parson.

   CONCEPT OF POEM

 The narrator, meant to be Chaucer himself, is staying at the Tabard Inn in Southwark, outside the gates of London, when the company of 29 pilgrims descends. The inn owner and host, Harry Bailly, sets up a challenge: each traveler should tell four tales on their journey two, on the way to the shrine of martyr Saint Thomas à Becket at Canterbury Cathedral, and two on their way back to London. The host will be with them so that he can, judge the best story. And the other travelers can pay for the winner's supper upon their return. The narrator told us that; the estate (the class), the array (the clothing), and the number of pilgrims assembled in this company.