Eve of St. Agnes Flashcards
A quotation to foreshadow the failed love, so deaths, of Madeline and Porphyro…
“Since Merlin paid his demon all the monstrous debt”
A quotation to foreshadow the tragic end with reference to the rape of Philomel…
“Tongueless Nightingale”
A quotation to show Madeline as sick and lost after Porphyro had sex with her…
“A dove forlorn and lost with sick unpruned wing”
A quotation to give the storm a sense of foreboding after Madeline and Porphyro disappear into it…
“An elfin storm from faery land”
A quotation to show the house dreams of deathly imagery and suggests the lovers may have died fleeing into the storm…
“Dreamt of many a woe […] shade […] witch, and demon, and large coffin-worm”
Mark Sandy
“Their untold future is blighted by the aspect of their death”
