Chaucer called this poem “truth” because is calling us to follow the road of being honest, the path of being trustful with your fellowman. It is called “truth” because we are surrounded by too much lie and craving for money, which makes the chase of truth a matter of real significance.
If we analyze the phrase “for greed entails hate and social climbing uncertainty” we can relate it to our own society, where the economic system has forced to people to wish and buy everything, even unnecessary stuff for their “personal fulfillment”. The desire of having more and more material goods has led to people to forget the real meaning of life; happiness and simple thing values.
It is easy to recognize the religious implications in this poem because the author is implicitly calling us to follow the “right path” of being a good person in order to reach the heaven, where all good fellowman live in eternal grace.
After reading this poem, the first thought that came to my mind was the time when the new Iphone was going to be put up for sale here in Chile. Many people got crazy for buying it. They even slept outside stores the day of the sale of the Iphone, with the purpose of being the first one in having it. While, on the other side of town, people were dying of hungry. Our two sad sides of our country
