Zusammenfassung der Ressource
Eve of St Agnes
- imagery
- "scultpur'd dead"
- "imprisoned in black,
purgatorial rails"
- " a thought came like a full-blown rose"
- " there were sleeping
dragons all around"
- Themes
- Love
- "heart on fire"
- "a throbbing star"
- Dreams
- " she dreams awake"
- "poppied warmth of sleep oppress'd "
- "Into her Dream he melted"
- Rivalry
- Beauty
- "fragrant bodice"
- "mermaid in sea-weed"
- nature
- mythology/magic
- " Hoodwink'd with faery fancy"
- "my lady fair the conjuror plays"
- Stillness
- Death
- "Died palsy-twitch'd"
- "slept among his ashes cold"
- Tragic Elements
- Victims
- The Beadsman
- Angela
- Madeline
- Tragic hero
- Madeline as good,
innocent but atypical
- Lorenzo: morally ambiguous
but heroic persona
- Peripeteia
- Removal from somewhere safe
to uncertainty
- union of rivals
- Hamartia
- Madeline's niavity, innocence
- Angela's trust
- Anagnorisis
- Realisation that it
is not a dream
- "No dream, alas! alas!
and woe is mine!"
- Myopia
- Madeline's blind trust of mythology
- Structure and
Form
- narrative poem
- traditional spenserian stanzas
create medieval feel
- romantic
- slow-moving
- "still life"
- sense of authorit through
artificial aging
- Use of Devices
- pathetic fallacy
- "the hare limped trembling"
- Role of fate, nature
- Author presence through
comments/exclamations
- "Ah bitter chill it was!"
- sense of inevitability
- School of Thought
- Feminism
- Potentially a rape?
- " As though a tongueless nightingale should swell Her throat
in vain, and die, heart-stifled, in her dell"