Discuss Chaucer as a modern poet.

Another
important step toward modern literature that Chaucer takes in is his use
of .

Every writer is a product of his/her time, in one way or another. 
Chaucer reacts against the literature of his time. 

In "The Pardoner's
Tale," for instance, he takes a didactic (preachy, or designed only to teach), allegorical
form, and reverses...