In my point of view this poem called truth by Chaucer would be seen as two remarkable roads or truths that exist. It could be related with the good side of the world which involves God. In this world we have the bad side and the good side of everything and in this poem in some ways the author wanted to make a critical thinking of society. For example with the phrase “greed entails hate and social climbing uncertainty” he is telling us that having more material belongings such as gold of fancy clothes will make us climb socially. Anyway, I think this is a religious poem because it shows us the kind of good side of life or that idea of “Be a good human being”. Only in this way you will get the heaven, but being good is very subjective at least for me.
One thing that I really love of this poem was that it is suitable in any period of our history. The idea of having more than your neighbor was in history for example through lands possession what made you powerful, or if you were traders who had more slaves was in a higher level. In today’s world we can see this situation with money or belongings like houses, cars, computers, etc. This is what makes me think we can read this poem fifty years in the future and it would be seen in some ways as a poem of those times.
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