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Unit 1 Geoffrey Chaucer(1343-1400) Key words poetry Geoffrey Chaucer “Father of English poetry” The Canterbury Tales Heroic couplet Poetry Poetry is an imaginative awareness of experience expressed through meaning, sound, and rhythmic language choices so as to evoke an emotional response. It has been known to employ meter(格) and rhyme(韵）, but this is by no means necessary. It is an ancient form that has gone through numerous and drastic reinvention over time. Chaucer’s Life Born to a middle class family. His father was a wine merchant who believed his child should have a formal educatio