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2
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- Speaker addresses an urn that gives an artistic representation of scenes
from Greek life
- Are beauties of life immortalized through beauties of art?
- Is art a cold mockery of life?
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3
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4
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- Destructive power of love and beauty
- Ballad form—repetition enhances sense of hypnotic beauty
- Imagery reflects irreconcilable opposites within the love experience
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6
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7
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- What is the lady?
- A “fairy’s child” (line 14)?
- A witch (stanzas 6 and 7)?
- A vampire/succubus (stanzas 10-12)?
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8
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9
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- What is the knight?
- An abandoned, distraught lover?
- A ghost?
- Winter setting
- “Lily on thy brow,” “A fading rose fast withereth”
- “Palely loitering”
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