LBDSM Flashcards
What does the title tell us about the poem?
Archetypal femme tale –> about a dangerous woman who seems beautiful but is deceptive, destructive and seductive
ail thee
Writer puts the focus on melancholy which intrigues reader
alone and palely loitering?
Rhetorical q –> purposelessness –> semantic field of isolation
the sledge is withered
Metaphor –> Knight’s withering away
4-5
Pathetic fallacy –> The bleak image of winter mirrors the knight’s state
So haggard and so woe-begone
contrast w/ stereotypical expectations of knights –> semantic field of misery –> his life’s been drained
9-10
Optimistic tone –> Atmosphere of winter symbolises death
I
First person pronoun used –> We hear directly from the knight who explains why he’s there
Lilly (the flower)
Metaphor –> Symbol of death as it decays over time
12-15
Suggests that the knight is dying
fading rose
Metaphor - emphasises his youth, vitality and that his energy’s been sapped
a faery’s child
He assumes she was a child of fairy as she was so enchanting and uncanny to look at
were wild
Alliteration –» She appears wild, animalistic and alien-like –> Dangerous
made sweet moan
Onomatopoeia and Alliteration –> He’s further seduced by her sexually with her moans of satisfaction
and nothing else saw all day long
Entranced or Monitoring her –> His only focus is on her as he was so captivated by her
I love thee true
Direct Dialogue –> We hear that she tells him directly that she loves him and lures him into a false sense of security
And there she wept and sighed full sore
Ambiguous language –> She was overcome with emotion
lulled me asleep
Ambiguity –> The knight’s under a spell as she comforts the knight
woe betide!
Exclamatory sentence –> Volta
kings, princes, warriors
Rule of 3 –> She’s seduced many powerful men and in the knight’s dreams, he perceives the victims all around him with a look of death
Thee hath in thrall!
Alliteration’s powerful –> Highlights how he is a prisoner now
And this is why I sejourn here
Emphasises how temporary it is
Enjambment –> Gives reader a pause for thought
and no birds sing.
Ends on a dark, gloomy and ominous note
What structure is it written in
Cyclical
how many stanzas? how many lines in each stanza and what’s the specific name for it?
12 stanzas in quatrains
having three lines of iambic tetrameter followed by a single line of iambic dimeter
What’s the rhyme scheme
ABCB
What does the 4th line in each stanza have in common with the rest?
Each 4th line shows a dissatisfying end
What type of poem is this written as and why
Traditional Medieval Ballad –> Makes it sound like a fairy tale
Themes of?
Unreciprocated love, impossible love, power of love, control and illness
