La Belle Dame Sans Merci

Question 1

and no…

And ____ birds ____

Answer 1

• ‘o’ sound is longing and morneful
• cyclical structure, link to start, question and answer
• @end short sentence, break up iambic tempo
• sponde- equal weight, heavy and final

And no birds sing

Question 2

so haggard…

So ____ and so ____-begone?

Answer 2

• question shows confusion from author, time of plenty in autumn but knight is sad

So haggard and so woe-begone?

Question 3

her eyes…

And ____ eyes were ____.

Answer 3

• hints at being dangerous
• knight is unaware, becoming entrapped

And her eyes were wild.

Question 4

and made…

and ____ sweet ____

Answer 4

• interpret as love, wrong
• seductive language
• musicality in sounds, long vowels, soothing, soft and song like

and made sweet moan

Question 5

and nothing else…

And ____ else saw all ____ long, For ____ would she ____, and sing A ____’s song.

Answer 5

• obsessive, she holds a seductive power over him
• dangerous, unable to live, eat etc
• captivated and trapped him

And nothing else saw all day long, For sidelong would she bend, and sing A faery’s song.

Question 6

on the cold…

pale ____, death ____

Answer 6

• haunting and disturbing
• physically affected

pale warriors, death pale

Question 7

and this…

And ____ is why I ____ here,
____ and palely _____,

Answer 7

• addicted to her love, unable to leave the hillside
• fatal flaw? cause of downfall

And this is why I sojourn here,
Alone and palely loitering,

Question 8

her ____ grot

Answer 8

• supernatural imagery
• dangerous and unknown

her elfin grot

Question 9

there I ___ her ____ wild eyes with _____ four

Answer 9

• complex with with danger and love

there I shut her wild wild eyes with kisses four

Question 10

though the ____ is ____ from the ____ and no ____ sing

Answer 10

• natural imagery is also destroyed, all happiness and freedom gone, isolated

though the sedge is withered from the lake and no birds sing