La Belle Dame Sans Merci Quotes

Question 1

Cyclical Structure

Answer 1

“Alone and palely loitering”

Question 2

Pathetic Fallacy in first stanza, slow beat, seems to drag

Answer 2

“The sedge is withered from the lake”

Question 3

Presence of death first stanza

Answer 3

“No birds sing”

Question 4

Presence of a third person

Answer 4

“O what can ail thee, knight at arms”

Question 5

Repetition second stanza

Answer 5

“O what can ail thee, knight-at-arms”

Question 6

Repetition of so, reinforces knights misery

Answer 6

“So haggard and so woe-begone?”

Question 7

Reference to autumn or winter

Answer 7

“The squirrel’s granary is full, And the harvest’s done.”

Question 8

Flower symbol of death

Answer 8

“I see a lily on thy brow”

Question 9

Knight is sick, death

Answer 9

” With anguish moist and fever dew”

Question 10

Pale cheeks

Answer 10

“And on thy cheek a fading rose”

Question 11

Fast, sense of urgency

Answer 11

“Fast withereth too”

Question 12

Typical chivalric romance

Answer 12

“I met a lady in the meads”

Question 13

Gorgeous woman, supernatural

Answer 13

“Full beautiful, a faery’s child”

Question 14

Feminine features

Answer 14

“Her hair was long, her foot was light”

Question 15

Untamed

Answer 15

“And her eyes were wild”

Question 16

Knight is doing the actions

Answer 16

“I made a garland for her head”

Question 17

Simile shows knight doesnt know if she actually does love him

Answer 17

“She look’d at me as she did love”

Question 18

Sound of pleasure

Answer 18

“And made sweet moan”

Question 19

Turning point of poem

Answer 19

“I set her on my pacing steed”

Question 20

Myopic

Answer 20

“And nothing else saw all day long”

Question 21

Supernatural music

Answer 21

“A faery’s song”

Question 22

She takes over

Answer 22

“She found me roots of relish sweet, And honey wild, and manna dew, She took me to her elfin grot”

Question 23

Knight is not sure she loves him

Answer 23

“And sure in language strange she said “I love thee true.”

Question 24

Clearly remorseful

Answer 24

“And there she wept, and sigh’d full sore”

Question 25

repetition of wild

Answer 25

“And there I shut her wild wild eyes”

Question 26

Sinister verbs

Answer 26

“And there she lulled me asleep”

Question 27

rep of dream, archaic language

Answer 27

“And there I dream’d–Ah! woe betide! The latest dream I ever dream’d”

Question 28

Tragedy, noble people

Answer 28

“I saw pale kings, and princes too, Pale warriors, death-pale were they all”

Question 29

Suggests she has done this before

Answer 29

“They cried–“La Belle Dame sans Merci, Hath thee in thrall!”

Question 30

Addiction symptoms

Answer 30

“I saw their starved lips in the gloam”

Question 31

Love and illness

Answer 31

“With horrid warning gaped wide”

Question 32

Lonely place, repetition

Answer 32

“On the cold hill’s side.”

Question 33

Final resting place

Answer 33

“And this is why I sojourn here”