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Poem

AO1 Love concepts

Structure and form

AO2/methods/ quotes

AO3/ context

AO5 Interpretations

Whoso
list to
hount I
knowe
where is
an
hyndeWyatt

Unrequited love which links to
courtly love although it lacks
romance and ends in bitterness

Credited with bringing the sonnet
form to England

‘The vayne travail hath weried me so
sore’-Semantic field of disappear and sibilant
sore
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Power dynamic of man as
‘hunter’ and women as ‘prey’
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Widely
known for its idealistic vision of a
loving relationship
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Love lasts even when on the
‘edge of doom’
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Major themes of love, sex and
seduction, religion and marriage

First 6 lines - rhyming couplet, the
idea of combining together
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Trying to have a manipulative
argument
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‘but as she fleeth afore Faynting I
follow
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Enjambment draws attention to ‘Faynting’ with
Caesura pause at full stop
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Letters plain social
control being normalised
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Links to
accusations of an affair with Boleyn
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‘Times foole’ - he has all the time in the world to
love her unlike the ‘scrutiny’ and ‘the flea’
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Love is not tricky
and doesn't change when you find changes in a
loved one
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In real life, King
Henry VIII accused Wyatt of committing
adultery with his wife, Ann Boleyn and
imprisoned him in the Tower of London in
1536
Born in Stratford-upon-avon
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Shakespeare created strong female
characters, whose intelligence, wit, and
bravery contrasted patriarchal ideas
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‘Sickles compass come’ - always connected no
matter how far apart
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‘Blood’ - like a religious ritual
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‘One blood made of two’ - The flea has also
bitten his lover, their bloods are mixed within the
flea - wants to have sex
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Repetition of ‘sucked’ - excited
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A
favourite motif in love poetry and has a long

‘it seems likely that Wyatt
admired Ann and the hind in
this poem can be seen as a
veiled reference to
her’-Unnamed critic

If there's no such thing as true
love, that he has never written
a word and nobody has ever
experienced it
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In the first 6 lines of each stanza, it
alternates between lines of iambic
tetrameters and lines of iambic
pentameter
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Views love with a transient
emotion - time always gets in the
way 'time's winged chariot is
hurrying near’
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Views women
as an object
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Final 3 lines are rhyming
tercets
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1
...
But - line 21-32
3
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‘Blood of innocence’ - she can be a polar
opposite compared to speaker which can be
harmful - religious
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Giving her more of a title like he's trying to flatter
her
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If - Extravagant courtship - first
stanza presents an idealised
representation of courtship with
outrageous allusions that
exaggerate the beauty of the
mistress
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But- The presence of death
The speaker is directly
addressing his mistress
and attempting to
persuade her of a specific
course of action
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Juxtaposition of ‘dust’ and ‘lust’
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Carpe diem you're living now, make the most of it you'll
probably be dead soon (momento mori)
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Continues to speak and doesnt let
the female to respond or have a
voice
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Addresses the woman in a cold way
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Stanza 3 - what happens
next? - present

history, especially in erotic or satriarchal
verse
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Speakers' natural instinct
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Appreciation of visual body parts
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Women need to prove themselves - competition
with each other
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‘Beauties crowned’ - winner? Which
beauty will win?

Marvell is deeply influenced by the
philosophy of carpe diem
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Marvell - metaphysical poet
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Not clear how Marvell intends
his readers to take the poem
seriously
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Range of civil wars in Britain (cavaliers),
fought over whether the king held supreme
power
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Aristocratic
marriages were still arranged for the best
financial and political prospects
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Cavalier poet Supporter of king Charles I in the
English Civil War (1625-1649)
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Wrote in ‘carpe diem’ showed a
lack of proper concern
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Putting the woman on hold - he
will return to her ‘satisfied’ and
has experienced enough
‘variety’ to settle down with
her
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Structure is very organised controlled by his perspective
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‘Vowed to be?’
Rhyme scheme - ABABB

‘Skillful mineralists’ - diamonds are
underground and there are lots of
them
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‘Un-plowed-up ground’ - aggressive
way to describe a virgin
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‘Joy in thy brown hair’ - others can be found, not
that important
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A courtly gentleman, especially one
acting as a lady's escort
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Doesn't believe in
monogamy (more than one lover)
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Parliament controlled much
wealthier areas in the south and
east of England
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‘I must all other beauties
wrong’ - competition, she's like the
rest, objectification of women
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She's
like a trophy
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A Song
(Absent
from
thee)-W
ilmont

Key ideas/attitude to love Idealised love and
sexual love
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Concept of addiction
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Wilmot uses a typically romantic
format as he writes it in a 'Song'
form and uses a fairly common
ABAB rhyme scheme, all of these
aspects can perhaps be said to
show that he doesn't truly mean
what he is trying to convey as all
the techniques used are quite
stereotypical
...
Wilmot also seems to use
this biblical imagery to make their
love seem sacred as though he
wouldn't want to lose her in the
same way he wouldn't want to lose
God

Is the speaker addressing a woman
or God?

‘Thee’ - who is it? Does Not refer to her as a lady
even
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‘May I contented there expire’ - Knows that he
will be satisfied
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Can he die fulfilled? Run
out of time?
‘Safe Bosom’ - only feels at home, comfortable
and safe here, assumes that someone is there
waiting for him
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He mocked political society -John Wilmot,
Earl of Rochester
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Had a reputation for womanising - in the
court of Charles II - very close to him
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Realism - focused on creating a
vivid and realistic representation of
the corruption in society
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Being compelled from his wife seek sexual encounters
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If he
strays her again for another
sexual encounter, he'll die
unforgiven and damned
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Love should be free from
constraint
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Idealised love
Love and lost - pain of parting
Unrequited love
Woman with no voice - lacks
agency
Poem of sensibility - emotion is
prioritised over style
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Rhyme scheme - ABCD - A ballad
like feel which signals that the
poem is telling a story
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Increase of rhyme at the end
represents the ominous presence
of the priest as they go about
binding “joys and desires”
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Reference to the 10 commandments - ‘Thou
shalt not’

William BlakeFrench revolution influenced his
writing
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Had little faith in th monarchy
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Three quatrains - a simple form
allows a clear argument
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- 3rd stanza - Focuses on death and
brings in the ominous figures of the
priest
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Semantic field of death
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‘Peace, Enjoyment, Love and Pleasure’ - Capital
letters implies how much it means to him
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Last 4 lines of the last stanza mirror
the first 4 of the first stanza but
‘alas’ instead of ‘and then’ - cyclical
structure - shows that his feelings
have not changed but the time for
parting has moved closer
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She
Walks in

‘Garden of love’ - biblical reference - Adam and
Eve
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Antitis - beauty is achieved through
harmony or balance of different
elements
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‘Fortune’ - capital letter - thinks he deserves it
and that fortune feels sorry for him as he actually
cares about women
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She will always
find her way back to him - she's probably dying
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Could be heaven where she is
going- religious
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‘Softly lightens’ - image of her face is calming to
the speaker due to the gentle language
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Celebrated nature, the sublime and
the common man
A focus on individual experience
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He hoped for equality - aware of humanity's
unequal condition
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Explored platonic
and idealised love
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Bryon - a Romantic poet
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Poem could be an ode to
Augusta Leigh, his half sister
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Regular metrical scheme
throughout - iambic tetrameter creates a sense of order, harmony
and symmetry
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Remem
ber-Ross
etti

Love and loss (grief)
The ephemeral nature of love
Love and devotion

Rhyme scheme is regular following
pattern ABABAB
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Patriarchan sonnet - enables
Rossetti to use a volta to shape her
argument about remembering and
the nature of grief
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The sestet
answers/resolves it
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Tone is controlled - trying to control
what they think of her when she's
gone,

‘She walks in beauty’ - Indirect pronoun - suggest
a sense of mystery as he doesnt know the
woman
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Had an affair with his half sister
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Famously described as ‘mad, bad
and dangerous to know’
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‘Tender light’ - creates the idea od something
myted and sodyt - may see her as this
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Shes so stunning that the speaker
cannot put into words
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Metaphor of ‘into the silent land’ - purposely
ambiguous - could be interpreted as either her
spiritual self going to heaven (due to her highly
religious upbringing) or her physical self being
buried in the ground
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‘Remember me/ - suggest physical separation - if
they are parted just for a while (will meet in
heaven)
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‘Only remember me’ - adverb - memory is the
least desirable way of staying together
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Calvinist belief - believed in preaching (god
decides who he saves etc) - ‘stay’ referred to
memory
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Rossetti - deeply religious/ engaged twice but
never married - on religious grounds
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Volunteered at St
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Her brother was an important pre-raphaelite
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The
Ruined
Maid-Ha
rdy

Victorian sexual hypocrisy
Love and sexual desireConcepts
of purity and love - Being ‘ruined’
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A woman's perspective or is it
from Hardys perspective?

Quatrains - regular form, anapestic
tetrameter to convey the rollicking,
speedy meter that suits the poems
ironic humour
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Given two more lines in the last
stanza to show how more powerful
or more status she has - breaks the
expectation of women
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Dorset dialect
Soft and fun tone - values
insignificance
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A
Ballad-K
eats

Unconventional / illicit love
Love and regret
Misunderstandings
Barriers to love

Love and obsession
Power and control
Reality and dreams
Unattainable love
Love as dangerous

First three lines of stanza - active
voice followed by one line being
the passive voice
Speaker - told from the males
perspective - he accounts for the
experience as a couple
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Use of the ballad form
(f=reference to Medieval period romantics interested in reviving
this)
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Absolute poverty makes for an animal existence
‘paws’
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You aint
ruined’ said she’ - ‘aint’ - loses, Dorset dialect gained sophistication, link to hierarchy - thinks
she's above her, old country self is still there or
mocks her friend
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‘I wish I had feathers’ - wishes to be how Amelia
is - different opinions on protitistion in the
Victorian era
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‘Ah, God, that bliss like theirs’ - appearance vs
reality - Hardy seems annoyed that they aren't
actually lovers
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‘God’ religious victorian literature conventions
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A Ballad’ means ‘The
beautiful lady without mercy’ in french
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Victorian concept of prositution as the Great
Social Evil
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Hardys perspectives on the hypocrisy of
Victorian society
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Felt that society was not fair - belittling how
society thinks
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- separation
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Their growing
relationship led Hardy to draw the wrong
conclusions about their relationship
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Keats -

‘Full beautiful’ - idyllic love - the physical
description of the fairy is one of extreme beauty
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Biblical allusion - innocence and purity - his
innocence (women usually described like this)
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Later romantic poet - died at 25
On his deathbed as afraid that his
life would not leave a mark
Influenced by Shakespeare
Purely sensual poet who was
isolated from the social and
political concerns of bis day
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Macxuline powerlessness
Love and sex is dangerous
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Designed to go with music
and dance to tell a story
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Links to sexual
desire - symbol of eroticisim and sexuality
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‘Pale kings, pale warriors’ - complexion is
mentioned
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Dreams of kings, princes
and warriors who have a deadly complexion
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She has enough
power to sck the masculine virility out of these
once powerful men
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Shows that this is written in a patriarchal spirit by
painting men as pitiful victims while women are
portrayed as the cruel perpetrators of their
destruction
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Refrain is ambiguous - simultaneously proclaims
fidelity whilst suggesting infidelity ‘bough red
mouth’ - prostitute
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12
syllables of iambic hexameter
(iambic pentameter on the fifth
line)
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Rhyme scheme - ABACBC - does not
make sense as he is not with her
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Title comes from a 15th century French
poem by AlainChartier that tells a similar
story
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Authurian imagery of Chivalric Britain
Linked to the french revolution

‘Faithful to thee’ - works as an anti-climax suggests lapses, unfaithfulness, human weakness
- connotes fidelity and infidelity simultaneously
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Dowson as a
poet of decadence
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The acceptance
of artistic beauty and taste as a fundamental
standard
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Died a 32 of alcoholism - month long drinking
spree at friends house
Parents killed themselves
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B Yeats and
Arthur Symons
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Sensory
impression of union with his lover - predicted in
an inverted, archaic syntax - poem of courtly
love
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Adelaine declined his offer of marriage perused her for the next six years, drawing in
pain of unrequited love with wine and
women
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‘Pale, lost lilies’ - death vs purity associated with
death and sex
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‘I Cried for madder music and stronger wine’ He's condemned to return to the tormenting
thoughts of her
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Needs
to get more drunk to get over the feelings Intoxicating himself, no longer numbing his pain,

thoughts
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Therefore, the knights
dream is an allegory of the
misogynistic prejudices of
patriarchy
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Regret and loss of love
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he needs more - like she is haunting him - ‘mad;
noise to drown her out, juxtaposes his mindset

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