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About
- Damien is miserable cause he can’t be alone with may
- they write to eachother and have signals to speak
- may made a wax impression of they key to the garden for Damien and her sneak in
- love always finds a way
“In warm wet hath imprinted the clicket”
— the images of impressionability which have also occurred early in the tail are now fulfilled through the device of traducto
- As May physically makes an imprint of the key to the garden in warm wax
-Previously January had hoped to mould her like wax (218 “warm wax with handes ply” as it was Damian who made an instant impression on her “lo pitee runs soone in her gentil hearte”
“Privee” “ lo Argus which hadde one hundred yen” “ priamus and tesbee” “ o Nobel ovide”
-The choice of this word to describe the signals pass between the two lovers provides an unfortunate pun for comic effect
-It will remind readers of the fate of Damien’s love letter thrown down the privy “ in the privee softly it caste”, and the basic nature of Damien and mays attractions and ambitions
-this is incongruously compared yet again with noble examples taken from classical legend
-January is compared to Argus a giant with 100 eyes
-Damien and may identified with Pyramus and Thisbe the lovers who eloped after speaking with each other through a wall
-shakespeare was later to turn their tragedy into comic effect in a Midsummer night dream
-These like other classical references are sprinkled through the tail and drawn from the Latin poet of it considered in chaucers time to be the major classical poet of love
-by drawing on these illusions Chaucer not only situates the narrative with an abroad of literary tradition but also suggests that like these ancient lovers modern or Medieval lovers must result of cunning strategies when faced with insurmountable obstacles
Tone
-The tone of the passage as elsewhere is a dramatic ation of the narrative. Attitude to love.
-We’re all of the old aphorisms and cliches ‘ love is blind’, ‘ love conquers all’ ‘ love finds away’ are implied and ironically dismissed
- The tale suggests that all great literature of love is empty nonsense more likely to lose the reader than illuminate the subject as relationships are driven by sexual desire alone
“ had his hand upon her”
-this represents the oppressive force that governs and restricts the lovers
-His constant monitoring reflects the theme of control versus freedom in relationships
“ who had a hundred eyes” “ for as good as blind deceived be”
The invocation and imagery of Argus serves as a potent symbol for surveillance
-The irony that even is such being can be blind in the sense of missing the truth reinforces the idea that site does not guarantee understanding or honesty
-Comparing site to blindness suggests that even though who observed carefully may still feel free to deception
“See as far as a ships sail” “
-an hour to mock January for his futile vigilance despite his ability to see as far as a ship sale
-His surveillance is rented in effective
-The paradoxical use of sight and blindness reflects the broad theme of appearance first reality just in even the most watchful may fail to proceed to true intentions and emotion of the lovers
