The Hunt as Metaphor: A Study of the Theme of Death in Four Middle English Poems
- Author / Editor
- Clark, John Frank.
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.