583-653 Flashcards
“The sun hath completed his daily journey”
-The circumlocution used to mark a embellish a transition in the plot in months is parodied as the narrator takes seven lines to impact the information night fell
-The comic effect is not only because the tone of these historical digressions is too elevated for the context because January is in such a hurry to get Me to bed and the leisurely pace of the narrative seems to be conspiring against him
-On his own genuine interest in the astronomy which he wrote about elsewhere in his prose treatise the astrolabe an instrument used for the measuring of the movements of heavenly bodies
He draws on this type of material in his high style romance is notably the Knight’s tale.
“Lustily they ride “
- Is suspension of the action is further drawn out which tells the wedding guest wrote homelessly and did whatever it was they wanted to before going to bed all completely meaningless and unnecessary detail
“Hastif” “he drinketh ypocras, Clarree and vernage”
-January, unlike the narrate is of course hasty to go to bed and the pace of the narrative quickens with the list of aphrodisiac he takes
-The information on his marriage note he needs sex aids and manual reminds the reader that he is old and therefore possibly important and also enhances the sense that this marriage is in all respects or natural and empty of genuine feeling
- His reliance on aphrodisiacs further his arrogance and self-indulgence
-It is highly ironic as he boasted that May couldn’t cope when really it is him who cannot
“ de coitu”
-The reference to religious text add a layer of satire
-He uses it to justify actions underlying his hypocritical misuse of scholar knowledge
“For goddes love/ preest yblessed’
-His speech open to the blasphemous invocation of God love reminding the reader that there was a sort of either God all up in the circumstances despite the conventional veneer given them by the marriage sacrament and information six lines later the priest blessed the marriage bed
“Travers drawe anon”
-The privacy he desires is however created by the drawing of the bed curtains a detailed action preparing for the first occasion may will have sex with January in marked contrast to the lifting of the smock in her later encounter with Damien
“Stille as stoon”
-if January is luxury is on seemingly and even disgusting as described by the narrator male frigidity on her wedding night is chilling
-The description (simile) of the bride of Stoney however much the reading might be repelled by January contribute to the unremitting negativity of the passage
“This fresshe may his paradis”
-maze name and a numerous of the points is proceeded by the adjective fresh initially suggest suggesting quite neutrally her youth beauty innocence but gradually become more ironically associated with the sense of sexuality
-she’s also hair described as January‘s paradise recalling early references to Adam and Eve but also anticipating the paradise garden in which January will be betrayed
“Thikke brustles of his berd unsofte like the skin of hound fish,” “ slack skin about his neck shaketh” “night-cappe” “he sang”
-uses the unflattering simile to compare the stubble on John’s chin with the bristles on a dogfish
-To add arresting imaginative detail to the first of the tails group test love scenes
-vivid descriptions of January’s ageing body to enhance comedic effect
-It makes all his attempts to be seductive on appealing and absurd
-Emphasising the mismatch between him and May
-The animal imagery of comparing him to a hound fish
-The similar graphic detail offered lead to the passage when January sits up in bed in the morning and the reader is treated to the information that he was wearing a nightcap and he sang loudly and behaved in a Scottish manner for the slack skin around his neck wobbled
-In this comedic writing chose a frequently draws portraits of people who have odd physical characteristics such as the war on the Millers nose or the Reeves long legs most likely the readers response will be one of discussed rather than amusement as is the case here
“Up riseth january”
-Phallic imagery
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“ a man may do no sin with his wife” “ nor hurt himself with his own knife”
-January that whatever he does to his wife cannot be counted in sin because of the sanctity of marriage just as a man cannot hurt himself with his own knife
-The foolishness of the second statement by implication undermines the first
-Both are nonsense and indeed the mediaeval church preached clearly that a lack of sexual continent and moderation in marriage was as sinful as fornication
-whatever the view of the church however it is true that the law offers a protection to a woman whose husband abused her as she was his property
-This reveals the misinterpretation of religious moral beliefs highlighting his hypocrisy and moral blindness
-It’s very hypocritical as clearly he has no interest in the reality of religion he only married to fulfil his lust
“ playing not worth a bene”
-The narrator finds mays feelings, inaccessible and he is unable to tell how she felt yet the reader is informed that she thought January is playing to be worthless
-This statement suggests a certain sexual connoisseurship on May’s part not entirely and keeping with her presumed status as a young innocent bride the reading may be reminded that she was early described as a young woman of the town
“ for every labour sometime must have rest”
-finally the narrated declares that all creation observes the rule that the rest must follow labour
-This is also blasphemous by the implication as it evokes in purely sexual context the idea of the Sabbath the symbolic seventh day on which God having created the world rested and which all creation should emulate
“He was all coltissh ful of ragerye”
-The narrator adopts a tone of mockery and irony when discussing January’s delusions
-The descriptions emphasise the absurdities
