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The Erl-King Flashcards

1
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What is the weather like and what month is it?

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‘A cold day of late October’

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How is the cold described, in the approach of what season?

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‘The lancinating cold of the approach of winter’

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How does she describe the time of year?

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‘The saddest time of year’

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What does she get a ‘haunting sense’ of?

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‘A haunting sense of the imminent cessation of being’

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What does the wood do?

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‘The wood swallows you up’

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What happens once you are in the woods?

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‘Once you are inside it, you must stay there until it lets you out again’

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The trees make the noise of who’s skirts?

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‘Women who have lost themselves in the woods’

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What is cawing and how?

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‘Crows…raucously cawing’

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What has happened to the water now it is winter?

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‘The silent, blackish water thickens, now, to ice’

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What will fall?

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‘All will fall still, all lapse’

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What fairytale character does she compare herself to and what will she be trapped in?

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‘Red Riding Hood… she will be trapped in her own illusion’

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What is easy to do in the woods?

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‘It is easy to lose yourself in these woods’

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How does she describe her loneliness?

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‘My girlish and delicious loneliness’

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How does she describe the fruit? Hint: Christina Rosetti.

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‘Delicious as goblin or enchanted fruit’

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How many people did she think we’re in the wood?

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‘I thought nobody was in the wood but me’

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Erl-King will do what?

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‘Erl-King will do you grievous harm’

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How does she describe the year as ‘failing’?

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‘Melancholy of the failing year’

18
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What does the Erl-King lay upon her?

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‘Lays upon me his irrevocable hand’

19
Q

What can some eyes do?

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‘There are some eyes can eat you’

20
Q

How does she describe his eye? Hint: Hoover.

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‘The black vortex of his eye’

21
Q

What does the Erl-King come alive from?

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‘He came alive from the desire of the woods’

22
Q

What does he keep his birds in?

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‘Little cages in which he keeps his singing birds’

23
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How many birds are there? What upon what?

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‘Cage upon cage of singing birds’

24
Q

How does she describe the trapped birds and what are her feelings about it?

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‘A wall of trapped birds. How cruel it is, to keep wild birds in cages!’

25
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What does the girl always do when the Erl-King blows his whistle?

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‘I always go to the Erl-King… I lie at the mercy of his huge hands’

26
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How does she describe him with an oxymoronic phrase and what did he show her?

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‘He is the tender butcher who showed me how the price of flesh is love; skin the rabbit, he says!’

27
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What does he do to call the birds to him?

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‘He whistles…to call the birds out of the air’

28
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What is she afraid of? Hint: fear of heights.

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‘Afraid of the vertigo…with which he seizes me’

29
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What does she do for him?

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‘I fall down for him’

30
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What is his flesh the same substance as?

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‘His flesh is the same substance as those leaves that are slowly turning to earth’

31
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How does she describe his teeth? Hint: submarine.

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‘I feel your sharp teeth in the subaqueous depths of your kisses’

32
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How does he show a hint of vampirism?

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‘You sink your teeth into my throat and make me scream’

33
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How did he draw her towards him?

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‘Drew me towards him on his magic lasso’

34
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He strips her down to what? And what does she describe herself as?

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‘He strips me to my last nakedness…like a skinned rabbit’

35
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What does his touch do?

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‘His touch both consoles and devastates me’

36
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What does he spread out for her?

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‘He spreads out a goblin feast of fruit for me’

37
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What did she know from the first moment she saw him?

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‘I knew from the first moment I saw him how Erl-King would do me grievous harm’

38
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What does she know about the birds now? Ending.

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‘Now I know the birds don’t sing, they only cry because they can’t find their way out of the wood’

39
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What will she do after she kills him?

A

‘She will open all the cages and let the birds free; they will change back into young girls’

40
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How shall she kill him?

A

‘I shall strangle him’

Angela Carter (4 decks)

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