Motif of Death & Gothic Features

Question 1

setting of the castle introduces motif of death, constant reminder of mortality and stark imagery of death surrounding the lovers

Answer 1

‘the sculptur’d dead’
‘as shadows haunting fairly’

Question 2

simile foreshadowing Madeline fleeing the nest but the consequence may be death

Answer 2

‘like ring-dove fray’d and fled’

Question 3

mythical allusion to philomela - only freedom in death turned into a nightingale after being raped and had her tongue cut off - foreshadowing death of Madeline’s innocence

Answer 3

‘a tongueless nightingale should swell her throat in vain, and die, heart stifled in her dell’

Question 4

gothic ghostly setting of death

Answer 4

‘glide like phantoms into the wide hall’