Tone of the Prologue
The tone of the prologue has kind of the same feel to it as the mood. It feels quite calm if I personally was in the author's perspective. Also like the mood, I feel an adventurous atmosphere in it. the passage "from every shire's end of England...they wend to seek holy blissful martyr..." shows the authors meaning towards the people's desire to go on a pilgrimage (15-17). Furthermore, Chaucer highlights a more desperate tone in the prologue. He shows this tone through his description of the people yearning to go on a pilgrimage.
Mood of the Prologue
The mood of the prologue is very serene. The use of the different seasons and flowers add a very calm sense to The Canterbury Tales. For example, the first two lines of the prologue exemplify this mood, "When in April the sweet showers fall and pierce the drought of March to the root.." (1-2). Because of the multiple uses of the word sweet, it seems to get in my head that the mood is sweet. It almost has an adventure-y theme to it. The quote "Then people long to go on pilgrimages and palmers long to seek the greater strands..." really highlights the adventurous aura the prologue gives off (12-13).
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