Eve of St Agnes

Question 1

(beginning) ‘The hare limped…

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…trembling through the frozen grass’

Question 2

(beginning) ‘Numb were…

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…the Beadsman’s fingers’

Question 3

(beginning) ‘meagre, barefoot…

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…wan’

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(beginning) ‘Music’s golden…

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…tongue’

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(beginning) ‘old dames full…

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…many times declare’

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(beginning) ‘couch supine…

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… their beauties, lily white’

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(beginning) ‘honeyed middle…

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…of the night’

Question 8

(beginning) ‘Hoodwink’d with…

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…faery fancy’

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(beginning) ‘her breathing…

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…quick and short’
- sexual anticipation?

Question 10

(introduction of Por.) ‘that he might gaze…

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…and unworship all unseen’

Question 11

(introduction of Por.) ‘perchance speak, kneel…

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…touch, kiss’

Question 12

(introduction of Por.) ‘Love’s fev’rous…

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…citadel’

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(Angela and Por.) ‘he scarce could brook tears…

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…at the thought of those enchantments cold.’

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(Angela and Por.) ‘purple…

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…riot’

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(Por’s plan) ‘A cruel man…

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…and impous thou art’

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(Por’s plan) Angela: ‘Sweet lady let her…

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…pray, and sleep, and dream alone’

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(Por’s plan) Por: ‘I will not harm her…

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…by all saints I swear’

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(Por’s plan) ‘there hide him…

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…in a closet.’

Question 19

(Por’s plan) ‘of such privacy that he might…

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…see her beauty unespied’

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(Por’s concealment) ‘the maiden’s chamber…

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…silken, hushed, and chaste’

Question 21

How is Madeline’s breathing described?

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‘she panted’

Question 22

(Mad’s entrance) ‘her heart was…

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…voluble, paining with eloquence’

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(Mad’s entrance) ‘a tongueless…

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…nightingale’

Question 24

(Mad’s entrance) ‘she knelt for heaven’s…

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…grace and boon’

Question 25

(Mad's entrance) 'She knelt, so pure a thing, ...

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... so free from mortal taint.'

Question 26

(Madeline undresses) 'Of all its wreathéd pearls...

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...her hair she frees'

Question 27

(Madeline undresses) 'Loosens her...

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...fragrant bodice'

Question 28

(Madeline in her room) 'she dreams...

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...awake'

Question 29

(Madeline asleep) 'blissfully havened...

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...both from joy and pain'

Question 30

(Madeline asleep) 'As though a rose should shut...

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..., and be a bud again'

Question 31

(Madeline asleep) 'from the closet crept...

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...noiseless'

Question 32

(Por prepares feast) 'Manna and...

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...dates'

Question 33

(Madeline asleep) 'Thou art my heaven...

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...and I thine eremite'

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(Madeline asleep) he plays her lute 'she uttered...

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...a soft moan...she panted quick'

Question 35

(Madeline awakes) 'There was a...

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...painful change...fair Madeline began to weep'

Question 36

(Madeline awakes) Madeline 'moan[s] forth...

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...witless words'

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(Madeline awakes) 'Give me that...

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voice again'

Question 38

(Madeline awakes) 'If thou diest...

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...I know not where to go'

Question 39

(Madeline awakes) 'he arose, ethereal...

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... flushed, and like a throbbing star'

Question 40

(Madeline is awake) 'Meantime the...

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...frost-wind blows'

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(Madeline is awake) 'St Agnes'...

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...moon hath set'

Question 42

(Madeline is awake) 'This is no dream...

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...my bride, my Madeline!'

Question 43

(They talk, Mad is awake) M: 'Porphyro will leave me...

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...here to fade and pine' Even the characters expect a tragic end, perhaps Keats rebels against this inbuilt expectation for suffering.

Question 44

(They talk, Mad is awake) M: 'I curse not, for...

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...my heart is lost in thine'

Question 45

(They talk, Mad is awake) P: 'a famished pilgrim...

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... - saved by miracle'

Question 46

(They talk, Mad is awake) P: 'I will not rob thy nest...

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...Saving of thy sweet self'

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(They talk, Mad is awake) 'an elfin-storm...

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...from faery land'

Question 48

(They talk, Mad is awake) 'Let us away, my love, ...

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... with happy speed'

Question 49

(They plan their escape) 'There were sleeping...

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dragons all around'

Question 50

(They plan their escape) 'In all the house...

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...was heard no human sound'

Question 51

(They plan their escape) 'The arras, rich with...

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...horseman, hawk and hound'

Question 52

(They plan their escape) 'besieging wind's...

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...uproar'

Question 53

(They plan their escape) 'They glide, ...

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... like phantoms'

Question 54

(They escape) 'The wakeful...

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...bloodhound rose...but his sagacious eye an inmate knew'

Question 55

(They escape) 'The chains...

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...lie silent'

Question 56

(They escape) 'And they are gone...

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...ay, ages long ago'

Question 57

(They escape) 'These lovers...

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...fled away into the storm' Become a part of mythology, mirroring St Agnes tale as thunder and lightning preserved St Agnes' virginity.

Question 58

(They escape) 'That night the Baron dreamt...

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...of many a woe'

Question 59

(They escape) 'All his warrior-guests [dreamt of]...

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...witch, and demon, and large coffin-worm.'

Question 60

(They escape) 'Angela the old...

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...died palsy-twitched' It seems the couple escape the grasp of time and suffering

Question 61

(They escape) 'The Beadsman, after thousand aves told...

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...For aye unsought for slept among his ashes cold.'