The simile used in lines 11–14 of "The Pardoner’s Prologue";
The tone of "The Pardoner's Prologue" is satirical. In this prologue, the author uses humor to expose the greed that was so prevalent in the Christian religion.
This tone is further exemplified in the simile where the poet likens himself to a pigeon whose head was pecking for food in the barn.
Like this pigeon, he was eagerly seeking his own selfish interest in the guise of preaching to people about salvation.
The comparison of the preacher to the pigeon is not only funny but also exposes the selfishness of what he was doing.
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