The Eve Of St Agnes

Question 1

Complete the quote and state its significance:

St Agnes’ Eve – Ah, ______ _____ it was!

Answer 1

St Agnes’ Eve – Ah, bitter chill it was!

Immediately, the tragic setting is established - it is winter, a time of dormancy

Question 2

Complete the quote and state its significance:

The hare ______ __________ through the ______ _____

Answer 2

The hare limped trembling through the frozen grass

This disturbing imagery signifies that something sinister is afloat

Question 3

Complete the quote and state its significance:

And ______ was the _____ in ______ fold

Answer 3

And Silent was the flock in woolly fold

St Agnes is typically depicted with lambs - should it be suspicious that the flock of lamb appear static? Or perhaps they’re watching over the momentous night

Question 4

Complete the quote and state its significance:

____ were the Beadsman’s _______, while he ____ /His ______

Answer 4

Numb were the Beadsman’s fingers, while he told /His rosary

Highlight’s the Beadsman’s devotion and asceticism

Question 5

Complete the quote and state its significance:

His _______ _____, /Like _____ _______ from a ______ old, /Seemed taking ______ for ______

Answer 5

His frosted breath, /Like pious incense from a censor old, /Seemed taking flight for heaven

This imagery foreshadows the Beadsman’s death

Question 6

Complete the quote and state its significance:

Meagre, ________, ___

Answer 6

Meagre, barefoot, wan

This depicts the Beadsman’s suffering

Question 7

Complete the quote and state its significance:

Music’s ______ ______

Answer 7

Music’s golden tongue

Question 8

Complete the quote and state its significance:

Already had his _________ ____: /The ____ of his life were ____ and ____: /His was _____ _______ on St Agnes’ Eve

Answer 8

Already had his deathbell rung: /The joys of his life were said and sung: /His was harsh penance on St Agnes’ Eve

Question 9

Complete the quote and state its significance:

All night ____ _____, for ________ ____ to ______

Answer 9

All night kept awake, for sinners’ sake to grieve

The sinners in question are Madeline’s family, who are villainised throughout

Question 10

Complete the quote and state its significance:

That _______ Beadsman heard the _______ ____

Answer 10

That ancient Beadsman heard the prelude soft

Question 11

Complete the quote and state its significance:

The silver, snarling trumpets

Answer 11

The silver, snarling trumpets

Question 12

Complete the quote and state its significance:

With plume tiara, and all rich array

Answer 12

With plume tiara, and all rich array

This imagery highlights the gaudy appearance of the guests, exposing their hedonism and their vacuous materialism

Question 13

Complete the quote and state its significance:

Nor look ______, nor ________

Answer 13

Nor look behind, nor sideways

These are the instructions given to Madeline to be carried out as part of the ritual on the Eve of St Agnes - they leave her blind and vulnerable

Question 14

Complete the quote and state its significance:

*The music, ________ like a ___ in ____, /She ________ heard *

Answer 14

The music, yearning like a God in pain, /She scarcely heard

Question 15

Complete the quote and state its significance:

________ cavalier

Answer 15

Amorous cavalier

The suitors who were interested in Madeline

Question 16

Complete the quote and state its significance:

__________ with _____ fancy

Answer 16

Hoodwinked with faery fancy

Madeline is blinded by falsehoods, leaving her vulnerable to external forces
She overindulges in her dreams

Question 17

Complete the quote and state its significance:

All the _____ to be ______ to-morrow ____

Answer 17

All the bliss to be before to-morrow morn

This is ironic as she later suffers on this night - her naïvety and wishful thinking arouses pity from readers

Question 18

Complete the quote and state its significance:

Porphyro, with heart on fire

Answer 18

Porphyro, with heart on fire

Question 19

Complete the quote and state its significance:

The ______ doors

Answer 19

The portal doors

Question 20

Complete the quote and state its significance:

__________ from moonlight

Answer 20

Buttressed from moonlight

Question 21

Complete the quote and state its significance:

________ /All saints to give him _____ of Madeline /But for one ______ in the _______ _____

Answer 21

Implores /All saints to give him sight of Madeline /But for one moment in the tedious hours

Question 22

Complete the quote and state its significance:

That he might ____ and _______ all ______ /Perchance _____, _____, _____, ____

Answer 22

That he might gaze and worship all unseen /Perchance speak, kneel, touch, kiss

Question 23

Complete the quote and state its significance:

All eyes be _______, or a _______ ______ /Will _____ his _____, ______ ________ _______

Answer 23

All eyes be muffled, or a hundred swords /Will storm his heart, Love’s fev’rous citadel

Question 24

Complete the quote and state its significance:

Barbarian ______, /_____ ______, and ___-_______ lords

Answer 24

Barbarian hordes, /Hyena foemen, and hot-blooded lords

Question 25

**Complete the quote and state its significance:** *Whose very ____ would ___________ ____ /Against his _______ *

Answer 25

***Whose very dogs would execrations howl /Against his lineage***

Question 26

**Complete the quote and state its significance:** *Not one ______ _______ /Him any _____, in that _______ ____, /Save one ___ _______, ____ in ____ and in ____*

Answer 26

***Not one breast affords /Him any mercy, in that mansion foul, /Save one old beldame, weak in body and in soul***

Question 27

**Complete the quote and state its significance:** *Ah, _____ chance! the ____ ________ came*

Answer 27

***Ah, happy chance! the aged creature came***

Question 28

**Complete the quote and state its significance:** *’Mercy Porphyro! ___ thee from this _____: /They are all here ________, the whole _____-_______ ____’*

Answer 28

***’Mercy Porphyro! hie thee from this place: /They are all here to-night, the whole blood-thirsty race’***

Question 29

**Complete the quote and state its significance:** *’Get _____! get _____! there’s ________ __________ – /He had a _____ late, and in the fit /He ______ ____ and _____, both _____ and ____’*

Answer 29

***’Get hence! get hence! there’s dwarfish Hildebrand – /He had a fever late, and in the fit /He cursed thee and thine, both house and land’***

Question 30

**Complete the quote and state its significance:** *Brushing the _______ with his _____ _____*

Answer 30

***Brushing the cobwebs with his lofty plume***

Question 31

**Complete the quote and state its significance:** *’Yet men will ______ upon ____ ____’*

Answer 31

***’Yet men will murder upon holy days’***

Question 32

**Complete the quote and state its significance:** *‘Thou must hold _____ in a _______ _____, /And be the _____-____ of all the _____ and ____, /To _______ so: it fills me with _____ /To see thee, Porphyro!’*

Answer 32

***‘Thou must hold water in a witch’s sieve, /And be the liege-lord of all the Elves and Fays, /To venture so: it fills me with amaze /To see thee, Porphyro!’***

Question 33

**Complete the quote and state its significance:** *’Good angels her deceive!’*

Answer 33

***’Good angels her deceive!’***

Question 34

**Complete the quote and state its significance:** *Sudden a thought came like a ____-_____ ____ /________ his ____*

Answer 34

***Sudden a thought came like a full-blown rose /Flushing his brow***

Question 35

**Complete the quote and state its significance:** *His ______ heart /Made ______ ____*

Answer 35

***His pained heart /Made purple riot***

Question 36

**Complete the quote and state its significance:** *A _________*

Answer 36

***A stratagem***

Question 37

**Complete the quote and state its significance:** *‘A _____ man and _______ thou art: /____ lady, let her ____, and _____, and _____ /_____ with her ____ ______, far apart /From ______ ___ like thee’*

Answer 37

***‘A cruel man and impious thou art: /Sweet lady, let her pray, and sleep, and dream /Alone with her good angels, far apart /From wicked men like thee’***

Question 38

**Complete the quote and state its significance:** *‘I will not ____ her, by all ______ I _____.’*

Answer 38

***‘I will not harm her, by all saints I swear.’***

Question 39

**Complete the quote and state its significance:** *‘They be more ______ than ______ and _____.’*

Answer 39

***‘They be more fanged than wolves and bears.’***

Question 40

**Complete the quote and state its significance:** *_______ Porphyro*

Answer 40

***Burning Porphyro***

Question 41

**Complete the quote and state its significance:** *There ____ /Him in a ______, of such _______ /That he might see her ______ ________*

Answer 41

***There hide /Him in a closet, of such privacy /That he might see her beauty unespied***

Question 42

**Complete the quote and state its significance:** *___ perhaps that night a ________ _____*

Answer 42

***Win perhaps that night a peerless bride***

Question 43

**Complete the quote and state its significance:** *While legioned faeries paced the coverlet*

Answer 43

***While legioned faeries paced the coverlet***

Question 44

**Complete the quote and state its significance:** *____ ___________ held her ______-eyed*

Answer 44

***Pale enchantment held her sleepy-eyed***

Question 45

**Complete the quote and state its significance:** *‘Thou must _____ the ____ ___, /Or may I never leave my _____ among the ____.’*

Answer 45

***‘Thou must needs the lady wed, /Or may I never leave my grave among the dead.’***

Question 46

**Complete the quote and state its significance:** *The maiden’s _______, ______, ______, and ______; /Where Porphyro took ______*

Answer 46

***The maiden’s chamber, silken, hushed, and chaste; /Where Porphyro took covert***

Question 47

**Complete the quote and state its significance:** *His poor _____ hurried back with _____ in her _____*

Answer 47

***His poor guide hurried back with agues in her brain***

Question 48

**Complete the quote and state its significance:** *As though a __________ ___________ should _____ /Her ______ in ____, and die*

Answer 48

***As though a tongueless nightingale should swell /Her throat in vain, and die***

Question 49

**Complete the quote and state its significance:** *Full on this ________ _____ the ______ moon, /And threw ____ ____ on Madeline’s ____ ______*

Answer 49

***Full on this casement shone the wintry moon, /And threw warm glue on Madeline’s fair breast***

Question 50

**Complete the quote and state its significance:** *And on her silver _____ ____ ________*

Answer 50

***And on her silver cross soft amethyst***

Question 51

**Complete the quote and state its significance:** *On her ____ a ______, like a _____*

Answer 51

***On her hair a glory, like a saint***

Question 52

**Complete the quote and state its significance:** *She seemed a ________ _____, _____ dressed, /Save _____, for ______*

Answer 52

***She seemed a splendid angel, newly dressed, /Save wings, for Heaven***

Question 53

**Complete the quote and state its significance:** *She knelt, so ____ _ _____, so ____ from ______ _____*

Answer 53

***She knelt, so pure a thing, so free from mortal taint***

Question 54

**Complete the quote and state its significance:**