La Belle Dame Sans Merci Flashcards
‘O what can ail thee, knight-at-arms,/Alone and palely loitering?’
Victim of temptress/of patriarchal world
‘So haggard and so woe-begone’
Victim of temptress/of patriarchal world
‘I see a lily on thy brow/With anguish moist and fever dew’
Victim of temptress/of patriarchal world
‘Her hair was long, hr foot was light,/And her eyes were wild’
Victim of temptress/of patriarchal world
‘She look’d at me as she did love,/And made sweet moan’
Victim of temptress/of patriarchal world
‘For sidelong would she bend, and sing/A faery’s song’
Victim of temptress/of patriarchal world
‘She found me roots of relish sweet,/And honey wild, and manna dew,/And sure in
language strange she said -/’I love thee true’
Victim of temptress/of patriarchal world
‘She took me to her elfin grot’
Victim of temptress/of patriarchal world
‘And there she lulled me asleep,/And there I dreamed – Ah! Woe betide!’
Victim of temptress/of patriarchal world
‘I saw plae kings and princes too,/Pale warriors, death-pale were they all,/They cried – ‘La Bell Dame sans Merci/Hath thee in her thrall’;
Victim of temptress/of patriarchal world
‘The sedge has wither’d from the lake/And no birds sing’
Entrapment (in seasonal cycle) (possibly also agency)
‘The squirrel’s granary is full/And the harvest’s done’
Entrapment (in seasonal cycle) (possibly also agency)
‘The latest dream I ever dream’d/On the cold hill’s side’
Entrapment (in seasonal cycle) (possibly also agency)
‘I saw their starv’d lips in the gloam,’
Entrapment (in seasonal cycle) (possibly also agency)
‘And I awoke and found me here,/On the cold hill’s side’
Entrapment (in seasonal cycle) (possibly also agency)
