Form and Meaning of the Old French Love Vision: The 'Fableau dou Dieu d'Amors' and Chaucer's 'Parliament of Fowls'

Description: Structure and theme of the Vision are established not only by the "Roman de la Rose" but by Latin poems: (1) visionary setting and (2) questing love-debate for a solution to the turmoil resolved (or unresolved) at (3) a Court of Love. Chaucer's work deviates from the pattern, but it is also adumbrated by the tradition, even though there is no final resolution.; Still "we can perceive all too clearly (the dreamer's) desperate need for a marriage with the cosmic love that frightens him, and that makes plain the complete irrelevance of his cunning claim to innocence of love's 'myrakles and his crewel yre'."