Note on the Contribution of Chaucer of English Literature , What do you mean by Black Death?

                                          Middle English Literature

Write a note on the Contribution of Chaucer of English Literature

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Write a note on the life of Chaucer and his different periods in his writing career.

Geoffrey Chaucer has been called “the father of English poetry” because he alone among his contemporaries and predecessors put poetry first, and did not seek to direct men, to judge events to return morals or to present a philosophy. He was born in London in1340. He has rightly been called ‘the morning star of English song’ by Tennyson and he is also called ‘of the great moderns’.

 Poetry was his only object. It was he who he who made London based English, the Midland dialect, the common literary language of England.

 Chaucer’s poetry was written over a period of some thirty years and it falls into three well-defined periods.

 The First Period:  The best known poem of the first period is the remount of the Rose a translation from the French Roman De La Rose, the most popular poem of the middle age. The Boke of the Duchess which is predominantly original written about 1396.It is an elegy on the death of Chaucer’s patron, John of Gaunt.

The Second Period:  The Chief poems in this period are The House of the Fame, The Parliament of Fowls, Troilus and Criseyde and The Legends of Goode Women. The House of Fame is an ambitious poem and is set out as dream. The Parliament of Fowls is a beautiful, fairly short poem which written to celebrate Richmond II to Anne Bohemia. Troilus and Criseyde was written probably at once Chaucer’s complete poem. The Legend of Goode Women is felt unfinished like the House of Fame.   

The Third Period:   Chaucer’s masterpiece, the Canterbury Tales, one of the most famous works in all literature, fills the third or English period of his life. The plan of the work is magnificent: to represent the wide sweep of English life by gathering a motley company together and letting each class of society tell its own favorite stories. Though the great work was never finished, Chaucer succeeded in his purpose so well that in the Canterbury Tales he has given us a picture of contemporary English life, its work and play, its deeds and dreams , its fun and sympathy and hearty joy of living , such as no other single work of literature has ever equaled.

 

 

What do you mean by Black Death?

 

One of the most authentic occasions of the Medieval period is the Black Death. The infections were known as the Black Death since one of the side effects delivered a darkening of the skin around the swellings or buboes. The buboes were red from the start, however later turned a dim purple, or dark. At the point when a casualty's blood was let the blood that oozed was dark, tick, and wretched smelling with greenish rubbish blended in it. The Black Death was spread by insects that were conveyed by rodents or other little rodents. The Black Death has started in the Gobi Desert. Almost 33% of the number of inhabitants in England passed on around 200 million individuals in Europe. The populace drop brought about a higher worth being put on work - the laborer's Revolt followed in 1381. Cultivating changed and the fleece business blasted. Individuals got disappointed with the congregation and its capacity and impact went into decrease. This at last brought about the English renewal.

The Black Death arrived at England in 1348. Bristol was a significant European port and city in England during the middle age period. It is generally accepted that Bristol was where the Black Death initially arrived in England. The plague arrived at England throughout the mid-year months among June and August. The Black Death arrived at London which spread to the rost of England. They swarmed, filthy day to day environments of the English urban communities prompted the fast spread of the malady. Church records that the real passing in London were roughly 20,000. Somewhere in the range of 1348 and 1350, killed around 30 – 40% of the number of inhabitants in England which at the time was assessed to be around five to six million. Numerous individuals were tossed into open mutual pits. The most established, most youthful, and least fortunate passed on first. Entire towns and towns in England stopped to exist after the Black Death.

The Consequence and impacts of the Black Death plague in England

(a) Price and Wages rose

(b) Greater worth was set on Labor

(c) The farming area was offered over to feeding, which was substantially less-work serious

(d) This adjustment in cultivating prompted a lift in the material and woolen industry

(e) Peasants moved from the nation to the towns

(f) The Black Death was subsequently additionally answerable for the decay of the Feudal framework

(g) People got disappointed with the congregation and its capacity and impact went into decay

(h) This brought about the English reconstruction

 

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