Sunday, August 20, 2017

About how a very cool poet has inspired me

As most people know, I want to be a film director and to be a screen writer. Geoffrey Chaucer, from what I have read, is almost exactly the kind of writer I aspire to be. From the reading, I learned that he was a very popular and wildly praised poet thought to have shaped modern English to how it is now. Mr. Chauncer was an influential poet credited to a series of firsts with G.L. Kittredge identifying Troilus and Criseyde as "The first novel, in the modern sense, that ever was written in the world." One reason I say he is almost the writer I want to be is that in the reading it said that he often left his poems unfinished, this is something I do not want to do as I think everything should and deserves an end. However, I would like to reflect many different cultures in my work as Chaucer's poetry reflects many sources such as; French, Italian, and Latin. One big thing that the reading has brought to my attention was his tendency to establish authorities only to contrast them, this is an amazing way to bring the issues of a time to the limelight and discuss them. One interesting thing I learned was that he did not provide solutions to the contrasts he presented leaving the solution up to interpretation. Lastly, Chaucer could address topics both seriously and comically making him diverse in the way he could talk about a topic, what he could talk about, and the audience he could present a topic too. Geoferry was a great poet and any aspiring poets,  authors, or just any type of story teller should look towards him if ever in need of inspiration.