tragic Hero/protagonist Flashcards
‘She weeps alone
for pleasures not to be’ XXX
Upon that murderous spot
she seemed to grow,
Like to a native lily of the dell’ XLVI
‘She withers, like a palm
Cut by an Indian for its juicy balm’ LVI
And she forgot the stars,
the moon, and sun,
And she forgot the blue above the trees’ LIII
So sweet Isabel
By gradual decay from beauty fell’ XXXII
‘For Isabel, sweet Isabel, will die –
a death too alone and incomplete
Lorenzo,
a young palmer in Love’s eye!”
‘He, the
servant of their trade designs’ XXI
I am
a shadow now’ XXXIX
resolved she took with her
an aged nurse and went into the dismal forest hearse
shows her a knife-
what feverous hectic flame burns in thee child?
but to throw back
at time her veiling hair
sweet spirit
that has schooled my infancy