The works of Chaucher...

[Khamul]

Now, I dont class myself as ignorant or a philistine, but I HATE the works of Chaucher. If you do like these works then I mean no offence by the following, its just my opinion. I doubt Chaucher himself would be all that bothered now anyway ;).
I had to read 'The Wife of Baths Prologue and Tale' for my English Literature A-Level, and I despised it. It gave me headaches regularly. I kid you not.
This was me trying to read it >>> :snooze:
This was me trying to make sense of the garbled english >>> verymad
This was me knowing it counted towards a sixth of my total A-Level mecry
I hated it so much that I bought my very own copy of 'The Cantebury Tales' (from which The Wife of Baths P&T is an excerpt). It is available for £1 in most cheap bookshops as part of a so-called 'Classics' range. And I destroyed it. I kicked it around my sixth form common room so much, and so hard that it quickly fell to pieces. Then I gathered the remains of the vastly over-rated literary diarrhoea and pinned it up on the notice board. To serve as an example to other so-called authors, novelists, playwrights and the like as to what will happen to their masterpieces if I am forced to read them and find them disagreeable. And you know what? Problem solved :thumbs: I honestly believe that defiling his greatest work actually helped me to deal with the torture of so many 70 minute classes/seminars. :grin:

[Tar-Ancalimë]

that's the funniest thing ive read in a long time... you literally had me laughing out loud reading your description of this... sorry i am that i dont agree with your opinion of chaucer, yet that is the funniest post roflmao roflmao lol lol

i remember i wanted to make my old copy of to kill a mockingbird go that way, but i never actually did :evil:

[Khamul]

<Gasp!> :o :o :o 'To Kill A Mockingbird'?. That was a great book! How could you want to do a 'Chaucher' on that?!? mecry But I'm glad you found the post amusing! I thought I might get into trouble for posting that, or get a really negative response at least! Didnt really think about that until after I posted it. Good to see that it was taken the right way!!! lol I like to entertain whilst I 'educate'! ;)

[Tar-Ancalimë]

<Gasp!> :o :o :o 'To Kill A Mockingbird'?. That was a great book! How could you want to do a 'Chaucher' on that?!? mecry heh, thats how i feel about your not liking chaucer; i only hinted at it in my post tho. i memorized the first bit of the prologue in old english, actually, in college :grin:

actually i thought your post was halarious enough to make up for the fact that my opinion differs with yours ;)

[Cuiel Rilwen]

...so now I have to go read both of them to see for myself into what cathegory I fall!lol lol roflmao roflmao

[Ronin]

Haters of Chaucer and To Kill a Mocking Bird? *sighs*...and they wonder why the world is coming to an end...next u'll hear of someone disparaging over Shakespeare pfbbt

;)

[Bonos-Girl]

lol...that post was the most amusing thing i think i've ever read in the other books forum!!

[YayBoromir!]

lol lol
I'm having to do the Wife of Bath for my English Literature AS level too - you're probably doing the same course as me. I thought it was okay - it's quite difficult to understand with the Middle English and all, but our teacher is quite enthusiastic about it, and I think it is fairly easy to write about.

[Ronin]

An enthusiastic English teacher makes all the difference. what makes Middle English so hard? the flitting back and forth from English and French, the spelling?

[Black Rider]

:: cough :: i liked canterbury tales :: cough ::

[Ronin]

ditto! :grin:

[Black Rider]

lol

the prologue was fun, we had a good time of laughing at all the stupid people and their foibles.

[Khamul]

YayBoromir, I did mine at A Level in 1998... So it isnt the same course but I'm *thrilled* to see that they are still churning that poor excuse for a book out... torturing English students with it even to this very day! But I did get a B and I only properly read 4 of the 6 books so I did quite well. ;) The other books were "The Importance of being Earnest" by Wilde, "Richard II" and "Othello" by that clown Shakespeare, "One Flew Over the Cuckoos Nest" by I. Forgot, and "The Bell Jar" by Sylvia Plath (which was terrible aswell...). Anyone got any more thoughts about these books, or more comment on The Canterbury Dross?

[YayBoromir!]

The Canterbury Dross? lol lol lol
I had a lesson on the Wife of Bath today. I think what makes Chaucer difficult is mainly the mix of different languages and some of the similes he makes are quite difficult to draw out. I had to read "The Bell Jar" as well.
Other books we are doing in our course are "Anthony and Cleopatra" by Shakespeare, "Snow Falling on Cedars" by David Guterson, and "The Glass Menagerie" by Tenessee Williams (that one's my least favourite, since nothing really significant happens in the play IMO).
It may be a *bit* late, but congrats on your B! :thumbs:
Hehe!

YB!:cool:

[Tar-Ancalimë]

Originally posted by Ronin
Haters of Chaucer and To Kill a Mocking Bird? *sighs*...and they wonder why the world is coming to an end...next u'll hear of someone disparaging over Shakespeare pfbbt

;) ah well you know i said that just for you, ro ;)

[Ronin]

*sighs*....yes, and i love u too Tar

[Tar-Ancalimë]

yes, you had better ;)

[Algamesh]

Khamul,

So ... did you ever get a chance to read any of the other Tales? There are a few of them that are very humorous so I ask that you don't give up on Chaucer just yet ;) .

As a matter of fact, wait until you aren't having to read anything for a grade and then go purchase another copy (patience ... don't start multilating it yet !!!). Sit down some sunny afternoon ... preferably outside under the canopy of a nice shadetree ... and start reading through them. If you find one that you like ... let us know !!! I think you will ... :thumbs:

[YayBoromir!]

I agree Algamesh... Chaucer isn't that bad! We've finished the Wife of Bath's Prologue now and are analysing it... I like his sense of humour in places and he is very, very clever with his language! It's a lot better than most of the other texts we've studied on the course so far! :thumbs:

[Ronin]

Just as long as u don't say better than Shakespeare, and everything will be just...just fine :grin: