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The Parlement of Foules or The Parlement of Fowls or The Parlement of Birds - Geoffrey Chaucer
The Parlement of Foules is an allegorical work
of Chaucer. This is supposed to belong to his Italian period, although its
nature is indicative of its association with the French period. Actually, the poem
may be taken as a model of French allegorical poetry. It stands out, along
with The Hous of Fame, as Chaucer's significant contribution to allegorical
literature.
In Parlement of Foules, the allegory is based on
a parliament, held by nature, in which different fowls participate. Big and
mighty fowls are shown to dominate the entire deliberation. The whole account
is amusingly presented and allegorizes the working of the actual parliament,
dominated by big bosses and influential peers. Chaucer's allegory, however, is
something more than the characteristic medieval allegory, like The Owl and the Nightingale, which is mainly moral in effect. His work has a social outlook
and a genuine comic spirit.
The present poem, like its companion poem, is a dream vision. The Chaucerian dreamer is led to a congregation of the birds of all varieties gathered before the goddess of nature of the St. Valentine's day. Written in Chaucer's usual poetic pattern, rhyme-royal, probably between 1374 and 1371, it remained as an engaging work for all times.
Tags: The Parlement of Foules, The Parlement of Fowls, The Parlement of Birds, The Owl and the Nightingale, Chaucer
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