LBDSM

Question 1

What does the title tell us about the poem?

Answer 1

Archetypal femme tale –> about a dangerous woman who seems beautiful but is deceptive, destructive and seductive

Question 2

ail thee

Answer 2

Writer puts the focus on melancholy which intrigues reader

Question 3

alone and palely loitering?

Answer 3

Rhetorical q –> purposelessness –> semantic field of isolation

Question 4

the sledge is withered

Answer 4

Metaphor –> Knight’s withering away

Question 5

4-5

Answer 5

Pathetic fallacy –> The bleak image of winter mirrors the knight’s state

Question 6

So haggard and so woe-begone

Answer 6

contrast w/ stereotypical expectations of knights –> semantic field of misery –> his life’s been drained

Question 7

9-10

Answer 7

Optimistic tone –> Atmosphere of winter symbolises death

Question 8

I

Answer 8

First person pronoun used –> We hear directly from the knight who explains why he’s there

Question 9

Lilly (the flower)

Answer 9

Metaphor –> Symbol of death as it decays over time

Question 10

12-15

Answer 10

Suggests that the knight is dying

Question 11

fading rose

Answer 11

Metaphor - emphasises his youth, vitality and that his energy’s been sapped

Question 12

a faery’s child

Answer 12

He assumes she was a child of fairy as she was so enchanting and uncanny to look at

Question 13

were wild

Answer 13

Alliteration –» She appears wild, animalistic and alien-like –> Dangerous

Question 14

made sweet moan

Answer 14

Onomatopoeia and Alliteration –> He’s further seduced by her sexually with her moans of satisfaction

Question 15

and nothing else saw all day long

Answer 15

Entranced or Monitoring her –> His only focus is on her as he was so captivated by her

Question 16

I love thee true

Answer 16

Direct Dialogue –> We hear that she tells him directly that she loves him and lures him into a false sense of security

Question 17

And there she wept and sighed full sore

Answer 17

Ambiguous language –> She was overcome with emotion

Question 18

lulled me asleep

Answer 18

Ambiguity –> The knight’s under a spell as she comforts the knight

Question 19

woe betide!

Answer 19

Exclamatory sentence –> Volta

Question 20

kings, princes, warriors

Answer 20

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

Question 21

Thee hath in thrall!

Answer 21

Alliteration’s powerful –> Highlights how he is a prisoner now

Question 22

And this is why I sejourn here

Answer 22

Emphasises how temporary it is

Enjambment –> Gives reader a pause for thought

Question 23

and no birds sing.

Answer 23

Ends on a dark, gloomy and ominous note

Question 24

What structure is it written in

Answer 24

Cyclical

Question 25

how many stanzas? how many lines in each stanza and what’s the specific name for it?

Answer 25

12 stanzas in quatrains
having three lines of iambic tetrameter followed by a single line of iambic dimeter

Question 26

What’s the rhyme scheme

Answer 26

ABCB

Question 27

What does the 4th line in each stanza have in common with the rest?

Answer 27

Each 4th line shows a dissatisfying end

Question 28

What type of poem is this written as and why

Answer 28

Traditional Medieval Ballad –> Makes it sound like a fairy tale

Question 29

Themes of?

Answer 29

Unreciprocated love, impossible love, power of love, control and illness