Figurative Patterns in the Poetry of Chaucer with Special Reference to 'Troilus and Criseyde' and Selected 'Canterbury Tales'

Description: For Chaucer, a poem was an imaginative focus for the representation of a larger pattern of experience. The patterns created by the opposing figures of speech in his poetry (the concrete and empirical/the archetypal) reflect a complex sense of duality, and are used to create a perspective which is characteristically inclusive, moving from everyday, earthly life to the realm of the abstract and the spiritual.; The spiral-like circular pattern in TC stands for a view of history and of human experience which is perceived in a series of cycles that do not repeat themselves but move gradually to completion. In CT, rhetoric and style work their variations from one teller to the next as each view of experience gives way to another.