The Knight

Question 1

lost tragic hero introducing the motif of loneliness

Answer 1

‘Alone and pale loitering?’

Question 2

narrative perspective creating ambiguity of the lady’s love

Answer 2

‘She look’d at me as she did love’

Question 3

moment where the tragic hero almost emasculates himself by raising the lady to a position of power

Answer 3

‘I set her on my pacing steed’

Question 4

anaphora reinforcing the significance of the dream like setting, not reflecting the reality of human relationships, sense of finality

Answer 4

‘And there’ ‘And there’

Question 5

narrative perspective the knight creates the impression that he has agency over the encounter trying to control her wildness

Answer 5

‘I shut her wild wild eyes’

Question 6

juxtaposition and iambic diameter suggesting that contrary to him shutting her eyes they are acting in a similar manner, his control is undercut by overpowering desire and passion moving him away from more civilised behaviours

Answer 6

‘with kisses four’

Question 7

refrain and imagery of cold representing the knight stripped of emotion lost in fantasy, condition of stasis, Keats warnings about passionate relationships

Answer 7

‘on the cold hill’s side’