LBDSM QL FINAL

• Knight at arms alone and palely loitering
• I awoke on the cold hill's side
• a lady in the meads , full beautiful - a faery's child
• she looked at me and made sweet moan
• She took me to her elfin grot
• I shut her wild wild eyes
• And there she lullèd me asleep And there I dreamed
• sure in language strange she said I love three true
• I saw pale kings and princes ... Pale warriors , death pale were they
• her eyes were wild
• I set her on my pacing steed
• <3 lyrical ballard
• <3 english balladic form
• the title was borrowed from an early fifteenth century french poem by Alain Chartier
• Keats structure borrows a question-and-answer form from earlier folk ballards and pastoral eclogues
• Spencers the Faerie Queen an epic poem from the english renaissance focusses on the Arthurian Knights particularly their chivalric codes (chaste, holy, virtuous, honourable men)