Canterbury Tales (I)

One line character summaries under post here. This is a little more.
I actually really liked the prologue. It wasn't that hard to understand like Shakespeare is.

vocab:
-dirk: dagger
-St. Christopher: patron saint of travelers
-solicitous: showing care or concern
-wanton: jolly
-screeds: long, boring speeches or pieces of writing
-sop: piece
-sanguine: confident, cheerful

clothing:
The narrator describes each person's clothing with his initial observations. Many of the clothing words I didn't know what they were because we don't wear the same types of clothing items as they did. I did pick up the feeling or impression that was given off by the physical descriptions and clothes.
 The knight was wearing stuff from battle because he's just come back, his son was more showy, the yeomen's peacock feather was to draw attention to himself, the first nun was a real lady, the monk had "fine gray fur" garnishing his sleeves because he was so concerned with  high society like hunting, the friar wore a cape and he was very hypocritical with only helping the ones who don't need it to improve his social and financial status, the merchant tried to conceal but his clothing did reveal, the oxford cleric (student) didn't care much for his clothes but for his books, the sergeant at law's clothes were kinda fancy but still down to earth, Franklin carried a dagger and a silk purse since he liked to live in the moment, the haberdasher, dyer, carpenter, weaver, and carpet-maker all were pretty neat and cleaned up with well kept tools, the cook was very contradictory with his ulcer and fatness, the skipper was the only one to be described as tan, the doctor was all-that with is "blood-red garments, slashed with bluish-grey", the woman was wealthy, parson was without much, plowman was alike, miller's sword described more physical attributes, manciple w/o, the reeve "overcoat of bluish shade" and a long blade went with his angry and depressing self, the summoner wasn't very clean, pardoner had no hood and carried a cross which is very contradicting
There were descriptions of horses and those conditions reflected on the people. Also, whether the men had beards or none, how closely shaven or kept, the colors of them caught my eye.

metaphors and similes used a lot, many adjectives; simile:
miller:  red, broad beard like sow or fox
summoner: his hair yellow like wax,falling like rat tails,"bulging eyeballs like a hare"

interested in reading:
top two: Oxford cleric, parson
next: plowman, squire, merchant, manciple

quotes, little happy ones:
"told of opinions and pursuits"
"rich in holy thought and work"
"honest worker...love for Christ"

faith:
The knight had it, he came straight form battle, it didn't even seem like the holy people had any, the only others who seemed to go for God were the plowman and parson who were at the bottom of the social stature and had nothing