La Belle Dame Sans Merci Quotes Flashcards
Fate and inevitability(2)
Cyclical structure- “no birds to sing” “the harvest’s done”
Pride and folly(2)
“she looked at me as she did love”
“I put her on my steed”
falls in love too quickly, gives her everything he has
Insight and blindness(2)
“faery’s child”
“language strange she said “I love thee true””
Nature and supernatural(4)
“Faery’s child”
“eyes were wild”
“elfen grot”
“there she lulled me asleep”
Journey towards death and destruction(4)
“la belle dame sans merci hath me enthralled”
“alone and palely loitering”
“fading rose”
“pale kings and princes”
Deception(2)
“language strange”
repeated use of i shows that it could have been the knights doing
“lulled me asleep”
Suffering(2)
“so haggard and so woe begone”
“anguish moist and fever dew”
moments of happiness and humor(0)
Not much throughout the poem, possible when the knight first meets her?
setting- time and place
cyclical- starts and end with “lonely hillside”
“elfen grot” setting
natural environment with supernatural elements
“bleak”- reflect knight
How the hero’s behaviour affects the world around them(0)
doesn’t particularly affect the world around him- only effects himself
Victim(3)
Knight- “alone and palely loitering”
“this is why I sojourn here”
La belle dame?- “there she wept”
Villain(2)
La belle dame:
“eyes were wild”
“hath thee enthralled”
Knight?- use of I repeated shows control
Tragic hero(2)
Knight:
“alone and palely loitering”
“anguish moist and fever dew”
