The lady and enchantment

Question 1

modifier characterises her as flawless, too perfect she must be a fantasy

Answer 1

‘full beautiful’

Question 2

symbolic of her open sexuality

Answer 2

her hair was long

Question 3

fragile and delicate but perhaps deceptive attracting protector figures

Answer 3

‘faery’s child… foot was light’

Question 4

syntactic parallelism in a triadic structure characterises the woman as a powerful tragic villain

Answer 4

‘Her hair was long’
‘Her foot was light’
‘Her eyes were wild’

Question 5

characterised as a mystical figure, supernatural quality over the night, makes the reader question knights agency and if this is fantasy or reality

Answer 5

‘faery’s child’

Question 6

enchanted by her in hypnotic state

Answer 6

‘nothing else saw all day long’

Question 7

syntactic parallelism showing her agency over the encounter

Answer 7

‘she found me’
‘she took me’

Question 8

deceptive nature manipulating the knight to gain control

Answer 8

‘relish sweet’ ‘honey wild’ ‘manna dew’

Question 9

characterised as a foreign figure who is mystical and unknown, otherness posing a threat to traditional values,lack of communication foreshadows the downfall

Answer 9

‘language strange’

Question 10

setting representing fantasy, everything that happens there isn’t in reality

Answer 10

‘elfin grot’

Question 11

hamartia of the knight trusting her letting her have agency and driving the plot towards its tragic conclusion

Answer 11

‘she lulled me asleep’

Question 12

polyptoton separating his experience from reality, classical romantic concept of dreaming unlocking enlightened perception, metaphor of creative impulses being hindered by romantic relationships, the lady acts a a symbol of the curse of artists struggle

Answer 12

‘latest dream I ever dream’d’