la belle dams san merci quotes Flashcards
O what can ail thee, knight-at-arms
an immediate sense of pit for the knight, we know he is courageous and brave as that was expected for medieval knight
- repitition/ refrain= reinforcing the pain and hurt the knight is feeling could be both physical and emotional.
with anguish moist and fever-dew
could be idea of lovsickness, he is recounting the time spent with the woman. Being so lovesick you don’t even realise the pain this ‘love’ is causing you
and her eyes were wild/ I shut her wild wild eyes
repitition of the idea the woman is wild, cannot be controlled or tamed by the knight or any man.
- could be seen as him falling from his chivalrous standing, he shouldn’t be considering a woman wild
- his own idea of femininity and how he sees her objectively
looked at me as she did love
excessive hubris on terms of the knight, extremely objective and outer perspective on who she is.
- misreading of her emotions
- his fatal flaw slowly being shown- blindness
elfin grot/ faery’s child
extremely otherworldly. Keats could be showing this as being out of the knights reality and understanding
- the woman taking him to a place which is outside of his reality and understanding- could be manipulative enables to ensnare him.
alone and palely loitering
completely drained by the woman he is no longer knightly and courageous and but rather stuck in this state of despair
- entire pathos
his hamartia
blindness not being able to see the reality of the situation with the the woman
hubris
the power her though he had over her possessive ‘I’
affected his knightly honor
tempted and seduced by the woman rather than disciplined, loses the honor that he has worked for.
- lost his masculinity only realised after the ghosts warn him
