The 'Parliament of Fowls': The Narrator, the 'Certyn Thyng', and the 'Commune Profyt'
- Author / Editor
- Kearney, J[ohn] A.
The 'Parliament of Fowls': The Narrator, the 'Certyn Thyng', and the 'Commune Profyt'
- Published
- Theoria 45 (1975): 55-71.
- Description
- The 'certyn thyng' the narrator deludedly pursues through scholarly exploration is the necessity of undergoing experience (i.e., entering the gates "for better of for worse") to discover the meaning of love. Nature's concern for the "commune profyt" shows this meaning: the process of constant renewal out of disharmony and conflict.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Parliament of Fowls.