Late Medieval Art, Literature, and Plague

Discusion question: 150 words minimum …..

Quote a one (1) or two (2) line section that you enjoy from Petrarch, Chaucer, Boccaccio, or Christine de Pisan, and provide your reason(s) for the choice.

Next, describe the historical significance of the writer whose work you have chosen. Comment on the degree to which the Black Death epidemic (1347-1350 CE) impacted that writer’s work.

Compare the writer you chose to a specific writer (whether prose writer or poet or lyricist) of modern times.

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In the book of the Duchess by Geoffrey Chaucer, he says that

I have so many an idle thought,

Simply through default of sleep,

That, by my troth, I take no heed

Of anything that comes or goes,

This quotation shows hi plight as a writer and overall his tribulations at the time. The lack of sleep here is a characteristic of many people at the time as they pondered on what to do with their life. As we can see from the next sections

Nor anything do like or loath.

All is of equal good to me,

The above quote tells us that when problems come, nothing is good or bad, everything is the same. Geoffrey Chaucer is known as the father of English literature due to his greatest contributions in literature. Many consider him widely..

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