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The Knight's Loss In The Book Of The Duchess

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Geoffrey Chaucer’s “the Book of the Duchess”, tells a story of a knight’s personal sorrow in regards to something he has lost. At first, the knight shares his story of sorrow to the persona of Chaucer in the form of metaphors. The persona of Chaucer in this paper will be name the narrator. Upon the basic reading of the poem, it would appear that the narrator tries to comfort the knight, but ultimately fails due to the fact he does not fully understand the extent of the knight’s loss. It is not until the knight tells the narrator directly that he has lost his wife that he understands what the knight has lost. The time in which it took the narrator to fully understand the extent of the knight’s loss poses multiple questions about the narrator

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