... here indirectly expresses disapproval of the knight's apathetic attitude; but Chaucer is tactful and wise enough to know that moralizing is not an effective strategy against listlessness. Thus, the only direct discourse against grief occurs in the fictional story preceding the poet's dream. The dead Ceyx advises Alcyone to cease her lamenting, for in it lies no help (202-203). This ... the birds singing the sweetest symphony he's ever heard. He is lying in a room whose walls have pictures of all the characters of the great European epic poems (all the quotes are from a modern translatio...

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