LBDSM Flashcards
1
Q
Anagnorisis
A
‘pale kings and princes’ forced anagnorisis
2
Q
Isolation
A
- ‘sedge has withered from the lake’
3
Q
Blindness
A
4
Q
Suffering
A
- ‘why I sojourn here’
- ‘no birds sing’
5
Q
Positives emerging
A
Not one bit
6
Q
Loss/ death
A
7
Q
Tragic fall
A
- ‘knight’
subverts this high expectation by being low in society from the beginning
8
Q
Emptiness
A
- ‘so haggard and so woe-begone’
9
Q
Tragic hero
A
Never really started in a high place in society
- ‘alone and palely loitering’
10
Q
Changes of fortune
A
11
Q
Tragic victims
A
- ‘she lulled me’
12
Q
Fate
A
13
Q
Settings
A
- ‘sedge has withered from the lake’
- ‘no birds sing’
14
Q
Treatment of women
A
The titular woman is not given a voice in the entire poem
15
Q
Misjudgements
A
