Structure and Meaning in the Parlement of Foules

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Fool's story (aka Foles Congress, Briddes Parlement, Birds, Filer Collection, or Bird Council) is about 700 lines by Geoffrey Chaucer (1343? -1400). This poem appeared in an imaginary form at the Rhythm Royal Festival and contains one of the first views that the day of St. Valentine is a special day for lovers. The beginning of the poem is that the narrator wishes to read Cicero's Somnium Scipionis and learn some "proof". When he fell asleep, an older Scipio Africanus appeared and led him through the celestial sphere to the door. After talks at Inferno's famous doors door, the narrator passed through the dark temple of Venus and went into the bright sun with the sadness of a human lover.

In 1382, Valentine's Day and a full-fledged romantic story first jumped into bed together - at least recorded together -, Geoffrey Chaucer's poem "Parlement of Foules". In order to celebrate the participation of King Richard II in a poetic form of Bohemian Anne, it is only possible to assume that his title reveals Joe's personal view of those thinking of marriage. In 1797, immortal expression in Valentine 's Day, this feeling is so popular that a useful manual called "Young Valentine' s Day Artist" was issued. It can be mostly described as an early example of the Bluffer Guide. Internally, the struggling Casanovas can find a series of suggested inscripts lovingly stated as "mechanical Valentine's Day" as their own transmission. Fifty years later, romantic Esther Howland of Worcester, Massachusetts has its own Valentine's Day vision.