The Thinker: A Prologue

So my senior year in High School I had a pretty smart English teacher. She decided to make our final assignment the task of writing a prologue about ourselves. This is what I came up with although it may not be amazing. It more applies to anybody who is a free thinker than I think it does to me but I don't know. We were reading, Geoffrey Chaucer's, "The Canterbury Tales," which might I add has some great stories reflecting good morals. I recommend it if you have not read it. Well enough blabbing, here's the prologue I wrote.

The Thinker: A Prologue

By: Lorena N.
There is a girl with thoughts a plenty
Who thinks herself as good as any
Fills her brain with information
Though leaves room for contemplation
Questioning the world at hand
She doubts ideas of a set plan
Her reality is self-created



"The Canterbury Tales is a collection of stories written in Middle-English by Geoffrey Chaucer at the end of the 14th century. The tales (mostly in verse, although some are in prose) are told as part of a story-telling contest by a group of pilgrims as they travel together on a journey from Southwark to the shrine of Saint Thomas Becket at Canterbury Cathedral. In a long list of works, including "Troilus and Criseyde", "House of Fame", "Parliament of Fowls", the Canterbury Tales was Chaucer's magnum opus. He uses the tales and the descriptions of the characters to paint an ironic and critical portrait of English society at the time, and particularly of the Church. Structurally, the collection bears the influence of The Decameron, which Chaucer is said to have come across during his first diplomatic mission to Italy in 1372. However, Chaucer peoples his tales with 'sondry folk' rather than Boccaccio's fleeing nobles"

Source: Wikipedia