Looking at the title the reader may be curious to understand why Geoffrey Chaucer tells about April, and what happened at that time.

The reader can organize the prologue into 4 parts. The first tells the reader about the setting: it is a spring-like and ‘sweet’ one. This first part answers the question the reader made to himself reading the title: in April starts the spring, the season when nature revives and flowers and trees sprout again.

The second part starts at line 12 and finishes at line 18: now Chaucer tells the reader what happen to people (Christians) in spring; At this time ‘people long to go on pilgrimage’, more in particular they usually go to Canterbury to ‘seek the holy blissful martyr’, Thomas Becket because they think to gain salvation and healthy from him.

The third part goes to line 19 to 34. At line 20 the reader can understand where the pilgrimage starts so where the tale is set: at Southwark at ‘the Tabard’ (an hostelry). At this line also the reader finds the subject pronoun ‘I’, for the first time he can listen to the narrator, a first person narrator. In this part of the text it is said about the intention of going to Canterbury of the narrator and about the meeting with 29 other pelgrims ‘in a company of sundry folk’: Chaucer decided to to say right from the start that his characters will be form the all orders of society (nobles, clergy and peasants). In addition he decided to use the excuse of the pilgrimage (that was the only kind of tourism at that time) to collect different tales and different point of view.

The last part starts at line 35. Now the narrator ‘’stops’’ the narration of the story to inform the readers that he will present the pilgrims (the characters) before his story ‘takes a further pace’ and he will start with a Knight.