La Belle

Question 1

How is the knight described suggesting tragedy?

Answer 1

1. I see a lily on thy brow with anguish moist and fever dew and on thy cheeks a fading rose
2. knight at arms alone and palely loitering

Question 2

How is the knight’s realisation shown through his dream?

Answer 2

1. I saw their starved lips in the gloam with horrid warning gaped wide
2. I saw pale kings and princes too, pale-warriors, death pale were they all

Question 3

How is the setting described?

Answer 3

1. The sedge has withered from the lake and no birds sing

2. The squirrel’s granary is full and the harvest is done

Question 4

How is the knight’s love described?

Answer 4

1. She wept and sighed full sore and there I shut her wild wild eyes with kisses four
2. Sure in language strange she said I love thee true
3. set her on my pacing steed and nothing else saw all day long
4. She lulled me asleep and there I dreamed
5. looked at me as she did love and made sweet moan
6. I made a garland for her head and bracelets too and fragrant zone

Question 5

How is the faery described?

Answer 5

1. took me to her elfin grot
2. relish sweet and honey wild and manna dew
3. I met a lady in the meads full beautiful; a faery’s child