Quotes and Analysis Flashcards
What quotation uses the title of the poem ‘The Beautiful Woman Without Thanks’?
“Who cried- ‘La Belle Dame Sans Merci’”
What quotation shows that the knight’s dream warned him of previous victims and used a biblical analogy to the Book of Revelation?
“Pale kings and princes too”
Give a quotation that contrasts the previous warmth of the play after a shift in power and connotes the knights death is approaching?
“Cold hills side”
What quotation uses caesura to present the knights dream to be a nightmare and are used as a sign of relief that the dream is over?
“There I dreamed- Ah! Woe betide”
What quotation uses epizeuxis to create a sense of foreboding and a supernatural sense that the lady has control?
“There I shut her wild wild eyes”
At what point does the knight lose control to the lady?
“She took me to her elfin grot”
What quotation shows that the knights recollection of events can’t be trusted, as as it was in a different language, he is assuming or guessing infatuation?
“Sure in language strange she said, I love thee true”
What quotation uses a biblical analogy to show that the lady gives the knight heavenly food and so is supernatural?
“Honey wild and manna-dew”
What is the story of Manna?
God fed the Israelites with bread from manna, and the same Jewish God promised them milk and honey
What quotation states that the knight made garlands for the lady’s genitals and also suggests the consummation of love through sex?
“Fragrant zone”
What does the quotation “sing a faeries song” suggest?
That the lady has used an enchantment on him and he has now lost control to her
Give a quotation that shows the knight becoming infatuated that uses an extended metaphor?
“I set her on my pacing steed”
What metaphor suggests that the knight is nearly dying and is symbolic of death?
“I see a lily on thy brow”
What use of pathetic fallacy suggests the knights illness is grief or sorrow?
“And no birds sing”
What is the effect of “and no birds sing” being repeated in the first and last stanza?
It creates a cyclical structure and at the end, the speakers question is finally answered
