... . The narrator then falls asleep on his book and experiences so strange and wonderful a dream that, he says, no one on earth can properly interpret it. Not even the famous Biblical interpreter of dreams, Joseph, who read dreams for Pharaoh (see  Genesis, Book 41), nor Macrobius, the late Roman author who wrote a famous (in Chaucer's day) commentary on  Cicero's  Dream of ... it is so good that it should be put into a poem. Analysis The dream of the narrator is replete with classical and biblical allusions. While they mainly come from the Black Knight, both the knight and the dreamer u...

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... old philosophies of the cosmos had been superseded. Analogies which had once seemed apt, artistic, and full of insight had come to look merely bizarre and unnatural. s use of unusual allusions and comparisons with disparate and traditionally non-poetic areas of human experience was condemned by Johnson, who saw it as iconoclastic, breaking the formal and decorative conventions of Elizabethan poetry ... sought after to learn of the true substance of love. For example, Lewis believes seemingly banal comparisons (eg. comparing the love of a woman to a flower) has more meaning than s bizarr...

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