On the contrast in 'The Parlement of Foules'

Author / Editor
Mori, Hajime.

Title
On the contrast in 'The Parlement of Foules'

Published
Bulletin of the Department of English Literature, Teikyo University (1979): 342.

Description
The use of contrast in PF is notable, as the poem begins with a suggestive contrast in "Ars longa, vita brevis." The main theme of the work may be considered to be a contrast of courtly love and natural love.

Chaucer Subjects
Parliament of Fowls.