anthology poems - la bella dams - ? Flashcards
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summary of la belle dams
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- knight introduces how he met woman
- he brought her gifts and she stole his heart
- he spends all his time with her
- she then lulls him into a trance sleep and in his reams he sees all of the other powerful men warning him
- he wakes up and shes gone but hes abandoned on the other side of the hill
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structure of la belle dams
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- ballad , iambic pentameter
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language of la belle dams
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- ## ‘palely’ - sickness - adds tension immediately as poem begins
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