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Chaucer's Knight's Tale : A Symbolic Reading, Naomi Pasquine
Chaucer's Knight's Tale : A Symbolic Reading, Naomi Pasquine
Master's Theses
Chaucer's Knight Tale has called forth much critical comment. Individual lines have been commented upon, characters have been analysed and the resolution of the poem has been discussed. Critics have offered suggestions as to the poem's meaning, but an interpretation that encompasses all aspects of the poem and gives the reader the feeling that all the poetic elements of the poem have been resolved into that interpretation has not been presented. What the reader is looking for is an interpretation that will give the poem what we call today a sense of its own being or an existence of its …