The Moon and Venus: Troilus's Havens in Eternity
- Author / Editor
- Drake, Gertrude C.
The Moon and Venus: Troilus's Havens in Eternity
- Published
- Papers on Language and Literature 11 (1975): 3-17.
- Description
- Negative elimination, sources, and proleptic passages isolate the moon, both symbol for inconstancy and threshold to immutability, as Troilus's port of death, logically compatible with the variants. Venus, traditionally combining the poem's themes of earthly and divine love, is the obvious choice for his final sphere.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Troilus and Criseyde.