Eve Of saint agnes Flashcards

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what is the overall theme for Eve of Saint Agnes?

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contrast of cold hatred and concern for family honour with the warmth and passion of young love

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St Agnes eve -

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Ah , bitter chill it was!

opening sentence

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the owl for all

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his feathers, was a cold

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the hare limped

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through the frozen grass

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numb were the Beadsman’s

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fingers while he told his rosary

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what is saint Agnes’ Eve?

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St. Agnes, the patron saint of virgins and rape survivors, died a martyr in 4th century Rome. The eve falls on January 20; the feast day on the 21st.

According to the popular superstition connected with St. Agnes’ Eve, a young maiden who fasts and neither speaks nor looks about before she goes to be may get sight of her her future husband in a dream.

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his prayer he saith,

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this patient, holy man

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meagre,

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barefoot, wan

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give words and phrases used to highlight the cold of the evening

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'frozen'
'frosted'
'chill'
'cold'
'slow degrees'
'ice hoods'
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already had his

the joys of his life

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death bell rung

were said and sung

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at length burst in the

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argent revelry

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with plume, tiara, and

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all rich array

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the brain, new stuffed in youth

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with triumphs gay of old romance

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the silver snarling

the level chambers

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trumpets ‘gan to chide;

ready with their pride

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glowing to recieve

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a thousand guests

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what quote summarises the premise of the eve of saint Agnes?

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young virgins might have visions of delight

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nor look behind, nor sideways, but require

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of heaven with upward eyes for all that they desire

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young Porphyro,

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with a heart on fire for Madeline

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her maiden eyes divine,

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fixed on the floor

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she sighed for Agnes’ dreams,

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the sweetest of the year

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anxious her lips,

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her breathing quick and short

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buttressed from the moonlight, stands he,

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and implores all saints to give him sight of madeline

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that he might gaze and

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worship all unseen

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Get hence! Get hence!

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there’s a dwarfish Hildebrand

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she knelt, so pure a thing

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so free from mortal taint

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a cruel man and

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impious thou art

- angela after finding out about Porphyro’s intentions

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what are the main aspects of tragedy in EOSA?

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  • peripeteia (reversal of fortune)
  • blindness
  • appearance vs reality
  • suffering
  • treatment of women
  • isolation
  • inevitability
  • pride
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stanza 5

significance

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sudden injection of pace and energy:
arrival of guests (‘rich array’)

tone has changed to the present by use of verbs

‘burst’ and ‘haunting’

  • provides energy and immediacy, highlight the passion of young love and how this will distract Angela and Madeline from the reality of the evening (heightens inevitability)
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stanza 6

‘the music

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she scarcely heard’

30
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S6
‘amorous
‘not cool’d

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cavaliers’
by high disdain’

Although Madeline eyes to not observe above the ‘trains’ of guests’ dresses, she attracts the attention of many suitors. (‘amorous cavaliers)
she rejects them in disdain but they are not ‘cool’d’ by this, = reflects the heat and passion of young love (amorous = sexual desire) impulsive, uncontrolled

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she sigh;d for Agnes’ DREAMS,

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the sweetest of the year’
- alexandrine, major stress on the sixth syllable (‘DREAM’) illustrates how Madeline’s ‘dreams’ are completely taking up her attention

  • consumed by ritual, introduces the theme of Dreams vs reality
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‘defiance, hate

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and scorn’
negative, tragic villainy
- description of the inhabitants
- cold opposition that awaits Porphyro

33
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Hoodwinked by

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faery fancy

  • deceived by the magical forces of the ritual
  • elevates her blindness + tragic victim status as she has committed herself to a ritual that will leave her vulnerable to the reality (to P’s stratagem)
34
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that he might gaze and

speak, kneel,

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worship all things unseen
touch, kiss
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35
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Guests at the party from the perspective of Porphyro:
‘barbarian
‘hyena
‘hot

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hordes’
foeman’
blooded lords

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what would happen if Porphyro was found in the castle? quote

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‘storm his heart’ with ‘a hundred swords’

37
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angela

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‘palsied hand’

‘poor, weak, palsy stricken’

38
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madeline’s room + virginity

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‘silken, hush’d and chaste’

39
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by all saints

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I swear’

Porphyro swears to Angela he won’t hurt Madeline

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slient as

brushing the

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a tomb
cobwebs
- gothic setting (as they discuss whether P can meet Madeline)
- elevates theme of inevitability