Chaucerian Irony and the Ending of the "Troilus."

Description: Argues that the opposition between "feyned" worldly love and true heavenly love posed at the end of TC produces "dialectical" irony in which the alternatives "share equally in the truth of experience." Secrecy and deception interact with idealism throughout the poem, indicating that the characters (and all humans) should love as well as they can, despite their inability to achieve ideal love.