You can read the first part of Keats’s ballad here. Madeline wakes up and she realizes that her dream vision of Porphyro does not correspond to the man she has before her eyes: reality does not meet up with her expectations. “How chang’d thou art! how pallid, chill, and drear!Give me that voice again, my… Read More “The Eve of St. Agnes” (3) – Poem (Second Part)
Keats’s “The Eve of St. Agnes” is a long Romantic narrative poem of 42 stanzas set in the Middle Ages. The protagonist, Madeline is a pure and angelic creature who is in love with Porphyro, while their families are at war with each other.It is the eve of St. Agnes’s feast day (20 January) and… Read More “The Eve of St. Agnes” (2) – Poem (First Part)
St. Agnes’ Eve—Ah, bitter chill it was!The owl, for all his feathers, was a-cold;The hare limp’d trembling through the frozen grass,And silent was the flock in woolly fold. (1) The night between January 20 and January 21 is the eve of St. Agnes, the patron saint of virgins, who died a martyr during the reign… Read More The Eve of St. Agnes (1)
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