EVE OF ST AGNES

Question 1

ELEMENTS OF TRAGEDY

Answer 1

• Tragic inevitability
• Tragic victims
• Tragic villains
• Loss of identity

Question 2

ELEMENTS OF ROMANTICISM

Answer 2

• Emotional Intensity: “Porphyro grew faint… Madeline began to weep”
• Feelings of sincerity: “If thy diest, my love I know not where to go”
• Romanticism embraced freedom- they run away at the end

Question 3

SETTINGS: Stanza 1-2

Answer 3

CHAPEL:
“bitter chill it was”
“The sculptur’d dead… seem to freeze”
“the frozen grass”
“Emprison’d in black, purgatorial rails”

Question 4

SETTINGS: Stanza 7-8

Answer 4

CASTLE
“Carved angels”- angels: purity and innocence- symbols of religion
“The silver, snarling trumpets ‘gan to chide”: expressionism- music bringing things to life

Question 5

MADELINE INTRODUCTION

Answer 5

• ‘Thoughtful Madeline’: She’s preoccupied
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