This serious poem's lighter moments include when the poet prays to Juno and Morpheus and offers a sacrifice of featherbeds in exchange for sleep..
This serious poem's lighter moments include when the poet prays to Juno and Morpheus and offers a sacrifice of featherbeds in exchange for sleep.. The theme of incomplete consolation draws on Boethius, while use of a chess game with Fortune is similar to a game in the Roman de la Rose. The poet finally falls asleep while reading the classical story of Halycon [HAL-see-ahn] and Ceyx [SEE-ix], and dreams of a Black Knight who laments the death of his lady love. For 10 points, identify this elegy composed for John of Gaunt on the death of his wife Blanche of Lancaster, written by Geoffrey Chaucer.
This serious poem's lighter moments include when the poet prays to Juno and Morpheus and offers a sacrifice of featherbeds in exchange for sleep..
The {Book of the Duchess}