Isabella

Question 1

Isabella’s vulnerability and purity beginning

Answer 1

Fair Isabel poor simple Isabel!

Sweet Isabellas untouched cheek

Question 2

Example of entrapment in first verse

Answer 2

‘They could not’ anaphoric referencing

Question 3

Semantic field of illness beginning

Answer 3

Without some stir of heart; some malady
Cheeks paler
Fell sick
Infants pain

Question 4

Example of their love in the beginning

Answer 4

With every morn their love grew tenderer

Question 5

Lorenzos vulnerability

Answer 5

He inwardly did pray for the power to speak

Meekness of a child

Question 6

Conflict between love and pain

Answer 6

A dreary night of love and misery

But for the general award of love the little sweet doth kill much bitterness

There is richest juice in poison flowers

Question 7

Quotes to reflect the temporal setting

Answer 7

‘Grew like a lusty flower in June’s caress

The breath of winter comes

Winter chill it’s dying hour

Question 8

Anaphoric referring to show entrapment middle

Answer 8

“Too many tears”
“Too many sighs”
“Too much of pity”

Question 9

The brother’s materialism

Answer 9

Enriched from ancestral merchandise

The hungry shark

Hungry pride

Money bags

The servant of their trade designs

To some high noble and his olive trees

Question 10

The brother’s cruelty

Answer 10

Many a weary hand did swelt

In blood from stinging whip

To kill Lorenzo

Question 11

Frustration at brothers (anaphora)

Answer 11

Why were they proud?

Question 12

Sympathy for Isabella middle

Answer 12

Poor girl!

Question 13

Isabella’s sadness middle

Answer 13

O misery

Question 14

Isabella’s hamartia

Answer 14

Passion not to be subdued

Question 15

Lorenzos murder

Answer 15

Lorenzo slain and buried… his great love cease

Question 16

Isabella’s accusation of her brothers

Answer 16

A brothers bloody knife!

Question 17

Isabella discovers lorenzos body

Answer 17

Pale limbs at the bottom of a Crystal well

Question 18

Isabella’s illness imagery end

Answer 18

Pale Isabella
She withers
Dead eyes

Question 19

Depiction of love end

Answer 19

Love never dies but lives immortal lord

Question 20

Isabella looking after lorenzo’s head

Answer 20

Calmed its wild hair with a gold comb

She still kissed and wept

Question 21

Isabella and the basil

Answer 21

Sweet basil which her tears kept ever wet

Fed it with thin tears whence thick and green and beautiful it grew

Question 22

Isabella’s sadness end

Answer 22

O Melancholy

And so she died forlorn

Question 23

Anaphora to show Isabella’s entrapment end

Answer 23

She forgot the stars
She forgot the blue above the trees
She forgot the dells

Question 24

The expectation of Isabella (end)

Answer 24

To be a nobles bride

Question 25

Antagonists at the end

Answer 25

And so left Florence

Question 26

Final quote from Isabella

Answer 26

O cruelty to steal my basil pot away from me!

Question 27

Pity for Isabella at the end

Answer 27

But did mourn in her pity of her love