The Hunt as Metaphor: A Study of the Theme of Death in Four Middle English Poems

Author / Editor
Clark, John Frank.

Title
The Hunt as Metaphor: A Study of the Theme of Death in Four Middle English Poems

Published
Dissertation Abstracts International 43 (1983): 3490A.

Description
Three other ME poems--"The Parlement of the Thre Ages," "Sir Gawain and the Green Knight," "The Awntyrs off Arthure at the Terne Wathelyn"--and BD associate hunting with death. In Chaucer's dream vision the hunt draws the narrator to the bereaved so that he can begin to accept his grief.

Chaucer Subjects
Book of the Duchess.