The eve of St Agnes Flashcards by Ruby Henson

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Madeline as a tragic victim

‘she sighed for

A

Agnes’ dreams’

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Madeline as a tragic victim

‘lambs

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unshorn’

shows her innocence

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Madeline as a tragic victim

‘so pure a thing,

A

so free from moral taint’

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Madeline as a tragic victim

‘a rose should

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shut and be a bud again’

madeline experiences the opposite of flourishing

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Madeline as a tragic victim

‘sad

A

eyes’

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Madeline as a tragic victim

‘trembling in her

A

soft chilly nest’

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Fate and inevitably bad ending

‘never on such a

A

night have lovers met’

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Fate and inevitably bad ending

‘spirits

A

of the air’

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Fate and inevitably bad ending

‘but dares not

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look behind, or all the charm is fled’

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Porphyro as a tragic hero

‘heart

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on fire’

tragic flaw

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Porphyro as a tragic hero

‘Save one old

A

beldame, weak in body and in soul’

savior complex - tragic flaw

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Porphyro as a tragic hero

‘his pain’d

A

heart’

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Porphyro as a tragic hero

‘so woeful

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and of such deep sorrowing’

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Porphyro as a tragic hero

‘a mortal man impassioned

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far beyond his might’

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Porphyro as a tragic villain

‘wicked men

A

like thee’

angela’s view of porphyro

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Porphyro as a tragic villain

‘leave me not

madeline says this

A

in this eternal woe’

made madeline need him

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Porphyro as a tragic hero

‘a famished pilgrim

A

saved by a miracle’

describing porphyro

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setting

‘bitter chill

poem opens with this

A

it was’

Q

setting

‘filling the chilly room

A

with perfume light’

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setting

‘elfin storm

A

from faery-land’

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setting at the beginning of the peom

A

‘bitter chill’
‘frozen grass’