ERL KING QUOTES Flashcards
the forest is always watching? waiting for those who are vulnerable
“some eyes can eat you”
she is her prey and does not want her to go
“drew me towards him on his magic lasso”
stripped the young girl naked -
“like a skinned rabbit” - perhaps he assumes she is something to be kept as a pet
she is deliberately trapped the girl in the forest with the intent to cage her with his other birds
“once you are in there, you must stay there until it lets you out again”
she loses her human qualities and becomes another one of his birds
“i shall sit…in my cage among the other singing birds”
what do the Chinese boxes suggest?
- a maze
- notion of getting lost; obscurity
example of the sublime
“the woods enclose.” - forest trapping you - stronger force of nature
the danger of the erl king
“Erl-King will do you grievous harm”
suggests you can’t escape the erl-king
“he knows all about the wood and the creatures in it” - he is the woods?
