'Voice Memorial' : Loss and Reparation in Chaucer's Poetry

Description: Chaucer's poetry of loss and reparation, exemplified by Anel and BD, reveals anxieties about isolation, change, and death through the defensive strategies generated by the poems both to remember and commemorate loss and to point toward a regenerative future.; Such strategies are analogous to those used by medievalists simultaneously to proclaim the irrecoverable loss and "alterity" of the medieval past and to allow themselves to recover and interpret that past.