LBDS

‘Alone and palely loitering’

‘The sedge has withered from the lake, and no bird sing’

‘Lily on thy brow’

Funeral flower - inevitable

‘Elfin grot’ ‘roots of relish sweet’ ‘honey wild, and manna-dew’

Fairytale setting -contrast to death prior

‘I made a garland for her head, and bracelets too’

Chivalry - sub genre of romance - false expectations

‘I set he on my pacing steed’

He is in control she is the object - power dynamic

‘And sure in language strange she said I love thee true’

Biased narrator - siren song - femme fatal

There she lulled me asleep’

Turning point - she is into control

‘I saw pale kings, and princes too, pale warriors’

Repetition - men victims of women’s power

‘I saw their starved lip in the gloam’

Reflects his doctorate