ABSTRACT
From Macrobius, to take the, first part of the stanza first, Geoffrey Chaucer takes the idea of a creative, energy which holds together the opposing elements; and thus, continues the theme of the dual nature of love, consisting in both, conflict and its resolution, with which the poem began. Chaucer attacks the weak point of the love vision: he gives, independent existence and life to the matter of its interminable, speeches. Nature repudiates, falsehood and hypocrisy, whom Love had accepted as supporters, and, thus makes it clear that she will have nothing to do with the most, dubious aspects of the love to which Amans is victim. By the, differences in the language used, we are made to experience the, difference in viewpoint between, say, the duck and the unhappy lovers, of Venus’s temple in a more direct way than would otherwise be, possible.
