Chaucer's Personification

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Through Geoffrey Chaucer’s utilization of personification, he effectively illustrates the strong superiority love has over mastery. The writer depicts that once “mastery comes, the God of Love immediately beats his wings, and farewell, he is gone!” His personification of love being a living and breathing thing conveys that love is not some object that can be manipulated and controlled at someone’s will. This denotes the idea that love is more powerful than mastery, as love will just “beat his wings” and go away. In addition the narrator also states that love is a thing “free as any spirit.” This is done to further emphasize the idea that love isn’t something you can dominate. It is not to be regarded as just an emotion you feel on the physical
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