1. In lines 1-14, mark vivid sensory details describing the time of year. Why does Chaucer focus on these sensory details? What impression of the season do these details create?

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Explanation:

The lines describing the time of the year are:

When April with his showers sweet with fruit 1

The drought of March has pierced unto the  

root                                                                      2

When Zephyr also has, with his sweet breath, 5

Quickened again, in every holt and heath, 6

Then do folk long to go on pilgrimage 13

Chaucer focuses on these sensory details because he is trying to emulate some Latin and Greek authors who introduce their poems by creating inspiration through a muse. Chaucer then chooses to create inspiration by describing a natural phenomenon of the earth replenishing itself.

From the lines above, the season of the year is spring just after winter. The description implies spring as a symbol of rebirth and new life. A time when the earth replenishes itself after the dry air of winter, a time when there is rain, fresh air and when people long to go on pilgrimage.

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