We completed studying the prologue to the ""Tales" focusing on characterization and social criticism of church hypocrisy. Looking at the first person narrator's commentary, we then discussed the two literary theories espoused in the closing verses: realism vs the didactic. We noted the poet's apology for the realistic characters and language coupled with his explanation that only realism conveys "truth." Joshua does very well with the poem , and astutely suggested that the narrator's later self-deprecation as a person with "no wit" was a technique to soften the poem's harsh criticism of the church.