THE REFLECTION OF G. CHAUCER`S SHORT POEMS IDEAS IN THE CANTERBURY TALES
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The relevance of the present article arises from insufficient scientific attention to the short poems of Geoffrey Chaucer (1340–1400), due to undisputable reflection of their aesthetic and idea accomplishments in The Canterbury Tales. The purpose of the research undertaken is to analyze the interpretation of the short poems` motifs and ideas in the poet`s story collection. For convenience matters the fifteen short poems were conditionally divided into five groups: the Virgin Mary prayer, complaints, courtly love ballads, Boethian short poems and letters addressing definite occasions (lenvoys). The result of a detailed study on the text-itself-level can lead to a deduction about G. Chaucer`s mastery to subordinate genre limitations and ideas on diverse topics to narrative and characterization goals of the story collection by means of which the inner entity of the latter is consolidated.
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