... Lady White's physical qualities (such as her lack of a visible collarbone ("canel-boon," line 943), he also speaks of the "worship to my lady dere." Courtly love demanded not only the perfection of the lady, but also the deification and worship of her by her lover. Thus ... stupors that replace worldly interaction with apathy and emotional paralysis. The Chaucerian consolation seeks solely to revitalize the sufferers.  The Book of the Duchess  offers no intense investigations into the roots of their respective maladies. In fact, as far as is possible, Chaucer ignores the causes. He ......

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... being they born and die; moreover he envies "the sullen tree" and "for thy stubborn hardihood" because the tree does not die and in my opinion he imagines to free himself from hishuman nature, represented by the blood, and therefore incorporating himself into nature. Anyway, in section 22 it is ... spirit of In Memoriam is well reflected in the introductory hymn, "Strong Son of God, Immortal Love"; its message is epitomized in the last three lines: "One God, one Law, one element, And one far-off divine event To which the whole creation moves." Unlike Matthew ... used nature well to refle...

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