week 7: Confessio Amantis - the framework

For the purposes of the forum, I would like to ask you just for brief initial impressions concerning the combination of the "commentary on the state of the world" in the Prologue and the traditional dream vision frame opening. How do they fit together?

In the 2nd part of the session debate on Gower we will focus on what I would call "patterning for a specific message"> 
I'd like to ask you to look at how Gower organizes his account, through recurrent motifs, highlighted themes and narratorial comment, to endow it with specific (moral?) significance.
Next, we will connect our observations on Gower's reshaping of the tale for a specific message with the framework in which he places the tale.