The+Eve+of+St.+Agnes


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l Romantic mood is heightened l Porphyro’s love for Madeline and physical desires are underlined || l Visual/Olfactory Imageries: “filling the chilly room with perfume light (275),” “glowing hand (271),“ “golden dishes and baskets in bright (272)” l The “light (275)” is contrasted with the dark, quiet “night (274)” l Motif of colors: “silver (273),” “golden (272)” l Motif of cold: “”filling the chilly room… (275)” l Religious Imagery: used with repetitions when describing Madeline, “my love, my seraph fair… (276),” “thou art my heaven and I thine eremite (277)” || · She describes the effect his voice has on her in order to enhance the phonetic imagery in the stanza: “Thy voice was at sweet tremble in mine ear, Made tuneable with every sweetest vow” (308-309). · She describes Porphyro’s eyes to enhance the visual imagery in the stanza: “And those sad eyes were spiritual and clear” (310) Symbolism: · Madeline describes his eyes as she remembers them as “spiritual,” which may hint at the serenity and piousness of the occasion and ironically play at his betrayal of this spirituality (310). She also describes them as “clear,” a term traditionally associated with honesty, to amplify the irony within the situation (310). · She calls his looks “immortal,” which may hint at how their love is perceived to be eternal (he compares her to an angel in later stanzas) (313). · She specifically capitalizes ‘L’ in “my Love” to imply that she only has one specific ‘love.’
 * Name || <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Stanza || <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Synopsis & purposes || <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Literary features and significant text ||
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">KBoyce || <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">1 || * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Beadsman praying
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">establishes setting and mood
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">foreshadows B's death
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">mocks religion? || * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Motif of cold : 'bitter chill' (1),' a-cold' (2), 'trembling' & 'frozen' (3), 'numb'(5), 'frosted'(6)
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">animals: wild 'owl' (2), 'hare' (3), then domesticated 'flock in wooly fold'(4), then human "Beadsman'(5)
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">religious imagery: Beadsman (5), 'rosary' (6), 'pious incense from a censer old' (7) simile: a vessel used for burning during ceremonies, 'heaven' (8), 'sweet Virgin's picture' (9) image of Mary, 'prayer'(9) ||
 * || <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">2 || <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">· || <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">· ||
 * || <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">3 || <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">· || <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">· ||
 * || <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">4 || <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">· || <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">· ||
 * || <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">5 || <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">· || <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">· ||
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">TJ || <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">6 || * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Identifies the details of the ritual performed on the Eve of St Agnes.
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Virgins will have 'visions of delight'; they will dream about the man they love.
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">They will go to bed without any food; 'supperless to bed...'
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">They will lay naked on their backs looking up at the heavens; 'couch supine', 'lily white', 'of heaven with upward eyes' || * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">motif of purity: 'lily white', 'beauties', 'honeyed', 'adoring'
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Use of assonance: "ire", "ite" sounds to help present calmness and joy: "delight", "white", "desire"
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Religious imagery: 'heaven'. The word "Eve" itself may be presented as religious imagery, as we may think of 'Adam and Eve'.
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Focuses on the determination of the virgins to find their true loves: 'with upward eyes', 'visions'. ||
 * || <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">7 || <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">· || <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">· ||
 * Liam || <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">8 || * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Madeline walks to her room, anticipating the dream that she hopes to enjoy later that night,
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Foreshadows and builds suspense around what will happen when she and Porphyro meet. || * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Imagery: "she danced along" (64). Illustrates Madeline's excitement.
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Metonymy/ Syntactical Arrangement: "Anxious her lips" (65). Emphasizes "anxious" by placing it at the front. Develops theme of romance through use of "lips" as metonymy of Madeline as a whole: connotation of lips as romantic helps to characterize Madeline as beatuful/ passionate.
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Motif of religion and/or purity asociated with Madeline: "hallowed" (66), "St Agnes" (71), "lambs" (71).
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Emotional turmoil: "anxious" (65), "anger" (68), "love, defiance, hate, scorn" (69), "bliss" (72). Builds tension through confusion, abundance/excess of emotion. ||
 * Emily || <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">9 || * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Madeline is in her room performing the rituals of St. Agnes Eve
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Porphyro is sneaking around outside Madeline's home, trying to get inside || * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Porphyro's tense mood in contrast with Madeline's mood of calmness and serenity
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Porphyro is tense due to 1) fear of being caught by watchful beings and 2) anticiption towards seeing Madeline
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">To relieve himself of the tension experienced from fear, Porphyro prays to the gods/saints, essentially asking for protection (religious imagery)
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Ironic because he asks saints to help him do something impure while saints usu. advocate purity
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Religious imagery is also employed when Porphyro voices his desire to worship and see Madeline's body ||
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 * || <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">13 || <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">· || <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">· ||
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 * Teresa || <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">15 || * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Porphyro is puzzled by Angela as he watches her laugh
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Porphyro learns from Angela Madeline's purpose on St. Agnes Eve || * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Characterization of Angela: 'aged crone'(129), 'feebly' (127)
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Simile 'like puzzled urchin' (146) used to describe Porphyro
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Incorporation of magical/fantasy elements: 'riddle-book' (130), 'enchantments' (134). 'legends' (135)
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Porphyro's reaction to knowing what Madeline would do on this night: 'tears' (134), 'his eyes grew brilliant' (132) ||
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Avril || <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">16 || * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">The lover Porphyro gets the idea that he should hide in Madeline's closet while she sleeps
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">The servant replies saying he is evil and he should let her sleep in peace || * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">"full-blown rose" (136) -> a rose in its full splendor, the idea came to him in its totality, idea did not form gradually
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">"made purple riot" (137)-> the idea took ahold of him, he couldn't think of anything else
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">"a cruel man and impious thou art" (139) -> an evil and not religious man, does not respect her religious doings ||
 * || <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">17 || <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">· || <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">· ||
 * || <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">18 || <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">· || <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">· ||
 * || <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">19 || <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">· || <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">· ||
 * || <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">20 || <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">· || <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">· ||
 * || <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">21 || <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">· || <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">· ||
 * || <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">22 || * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Porphyro in Madeline's room (Angela's help);
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Madeline gets ready, Porphyro 'told' to wait and "gaze on that bed"
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Madeline's purity is underlined
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Point where porphyro and Madeline both begin with their actions - Madeline with the ritual, Porphyro with his plan to hide/gaze at her || * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Religious Imagery: "missioned spirit (193)," "pious care (194)" "St Agnes' charmed maid (192)"
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Visual Imagery (colors/lights): "silver," "light" (194)
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Verbs with rhyming/similar ends: "turned (195)" "led (195)" "frayed and fled (198)" emphasis on their actions ||
 * || <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">23 || <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">· || <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">· ||
 * || <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">24 || <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">· || <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">· ||
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Evan || <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">25 || * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">·Portrays Porphyro's fascination and lust for Madeline
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">...and in contrast (due to religious overtones) Madeline's purity and perfection || * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">**·Religious Imagery**:
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">'knelt for heaven's grace'(219), 'hands, together pressed'(220), 'silver cross '(221), 'glory, like a saint'(222), 'splendid angel'(223), 'Save wings, for Heaven'(224)
 * "She knelt, so pure a thing, so free from mortal taint."(225) Emphasizes purity -->Virginity...Porphyro='mortal taint'...Amethyst is symbol of chastity
 * "threw warm gules on Madeline's fair breast"(218), conveys lust ||
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Alice || <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">26 || * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Madeline prepares to meet her future husband, and undresses
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">She begins to fall into a dream state to experience enchantment
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">foreshadows Madeline's misinterpretation of dream and reality, it's consequences
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">multiple meanings of 'fancy' in reference to her actions, the ritual, and it's preparation: desire or attraction, elaborate attire || * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">paradox: 'dreams awake' (232)
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">simile: 'like a mermaid in sea-weed' (231) idea of fantasy
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">sexual undertone. long, elaborate description of Madeline undressing: 'wreathed pearls her hair she frees' (227), 'unclasps her warmed jewels one by one' (228), 'loosens her fragrant bodice' (229), 'creeps rustling' (230)
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">emphasize the rules of the superstition: 'dares not look behind' 'charm is fled' (234) ||
 * || <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">27 || <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">· || <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">· ||
 * || <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">28 || <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">· || <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">· ||
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Pam || <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">29 || <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">sets a romantic mood
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">description of Madeline's room
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">contrasts peace of room with celebration of St. Agnes held outside || * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">﻿motif of music/noise: "clarion" (258), "kettle-drum" (259), "clarionet" (259)
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">motif of colors: "crimson"(256), "gold"(256), "jet"(256), "silver" (254)
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">juxtaposition between peace, calm and festivity
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Poyrphyro wishes for a "Morphean amulet" (257) Morpheus is the god of sleep, dreams, foreshadowing the scene later when Madeline thinks she is still in a dream ||
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Daisy || <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">30 || * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Porphyro exits the closet and presents Madeline with various fruits and delicacies from overseas.
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">A passionate atmosphere is hinted
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Vivid colors of the foods contrast the muted colors of the room. Foreshadows that Madeline's purity may be tinted. || * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">﻿Color motifs: "azure" (262), "blanch" (263), "lucent" (267)
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">The calming colors of the room, contrast with the colors of the foods "apple"(265), "cinnamon"(267), "dates" (268) the fiery colors symbolizes Porphyro's passion and love towards Madeline.
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Allusions to places: "Fez" (269), "Samarkand" (270), "Lebanon" (270) ||
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">So Yeon || <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">31 || <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">l Porphyro approaches Madeline
 * || <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">32 || <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">· || <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">· ||
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Crystal || <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">33 || * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Porphyro sings to Madeline || * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Incorporates a lot of sound and music to symbolize the love between Madeline and Porphyro
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Illustrates that their relationship is more than just a physical connection
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">"and in chords that tenderest be" (290)
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">"He play'd an ancient ditty, long since mute" (291)
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">"Close to her ear touching the melody" (293)
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">"Upon his knees he sank, pale as smooth-sculptured stone" (296)
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Shows the contrast to his previous, hot-blooded and passionate personality
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Seems as if Madeline had transformed him into someone else ||
 * || <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">34 || * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Madeline realizes that she actually isn't in a dream and begins to weep.
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Porphyro kneels beside her, afraid to move. || * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Motif of eyes: "eyes" "beheld" "vision" "gaze" "eye" "looked". These help establish eyes as dominant and critical to their love as the rest of their body parts do not function (mouth, movement etc). This may emphasize, or even mock the importance of physical beauty in their relationship.
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Alliteration "witless words with"
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Contrast reality and dreams/illusions "painful change" vs. "blisses" "pure and deep" ||
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Abhinav || <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">35 || * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Madeline’s first words in the poem.
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Madeline pines for the Porphyro she remembers.
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Madeline says that she doesn't know what to do without Porphyro ("For if thou diest, my Love, I know not where to go'" (315). || <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Imagery:

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Note: Although all of the analysis was done by me as I read the poem, I looked up the mythical references etc. for this stanza and others here: <span style="border-collapse: separate; color: #2a2a2a; font-family: 'Segoe UI',Tahoma,Verdana,Arial,sans-serif; line-height: 17px;">__ http://academic.brooklyn.cuny.edu/english/melani/cs6/st_agnes.html __ || <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">- visual: <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">"sapphire heaven," sapphire is a shade of blue: contributes to motif of cold. <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">"pattering the sharp sleet against the window panes; St. Agnes' moon hath set."creates an image of darkness and blurry snow against the windows. <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">- auditory: "Love's alarum pattering the sharp sleet." creates a tense, repetitive sound <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">contrasting with the calm inside the room. <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">- olfactory: "as the rose Blendeth its odour with the violet." creates a soothing feeling/smell. <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">- tactile: "Meantime the frost-wind blows" develops motif of cold, contrasts with inside of room. <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">"pattering the sharp sleet Against the window-panes," also develops motif of cold: contrasts the sleet outside with the warmth inside the room, as if the outside world is <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">trying to ruin the night but cannot.
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Liam || <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">36 || * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Poyrphyro rises after hearing Madeline's sweet words and "into her dream he melts."
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Develops romances between Madeline and Porphyro.
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Contrasts the warmth they share between the cold outside. || * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Imagery:
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Metaphor: "he arose (...) like a throbbing star." throbbing is often used to describe a heart, making it seem like Porphyro's heart is a star because he is so deeply in love.
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Porphyro is: "Beyond a mortal man impassioned..." gives impression that Porphyro, like Madeline, is sacred on this holy night. ||
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Lesedi || <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">37 || * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Porphyro informs Madeline that she isn't dreaming and its real. || * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">· Motif for cold:"iced gust still raved and beats"(327)
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Imagery; "a dove forlonand lost with sick unpruned wing"(333) ||
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Maura || <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">38 || * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Porphyro speaking to Madeline when she is semi-conscious, decides to sleep with her ('here I will take my rest')
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Shows Porphyro's love for Madeline || * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Religious imagery: 'vassal blessed', 'silver shrine', 'a famished pilgrim - saved by miracle' -- Porphyro's love for Madeline like a religious experience
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Descriptions of Madeline, repetition: "sweet dreamer", "lovely bride", "thy sweet self", "fair Madeline ||
 * || <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">39 || <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">· || <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">· ||
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Emily || <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">40 || * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Upon Porphyro's urging her to leave with him, Madeline heeds his words and follows
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">The two escape quickly, through a dark passageway where no one would see them
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">They leave the house silent and still ("In all the house was heard no human sound") || * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Medieval Imagery/metaphor: "sleeping dragons" = watchful members/soldiers that could catch Porphyro and Madeline escaping
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Emphasizes tense mood during escape, afraid of being seen
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Medieval image of knight rescuing a princess from castle, suggesting that Madeline did not necessarily have a choice of whether to leave or not (traditionally, princesses don't say 'I don't want to be rescued', but follow the knight out of the castle), and even that she did not necessarily know Porphyro (perhaps he was a figment of her imagination until she realized the reality)
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Imagery referring to escape:
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Subsequent to their escape, house is characterized as almost completely silent (motif of sound/lack thereof) and still except for flickering lamp and fluttering tapestry--emphasizes secretive disappearance of Madeline and Porphyro--nobody knows where they have gone. The silence is what they have left behind.
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">"Chain-drooped lamp"=escaped the chains/boundaries of the house
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Fluttering "Arras rich with horseman, hawk and hound" symbolizes Porphyro and Madeline's departure without being caught (horseman, hawk, hound represent watchful creatures (i.e. sleeping dragons))
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Motif of cold: "chains", "besieging winds"-->escaping into the night suggests motif of coldness as well ||
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Adrian || <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">41 || <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">·In this stanza, they make their escape through the front doors of the castle. || <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Motif of detachment from reality:
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">“like phantoms” (361) is repeated twice in this stanza, emphasizing the dream-like escape.
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">· The line about the porter being asleep after consuming his flagon of beer(?) also contribute to the sense of unreality.
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">· The chain, bolt and door symbolize the gateway out of reality and as they leave, they leave reality behind ||
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Teresa || <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">42 || * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Porphyro and Madeline are gone
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">On this night, the Baron and his guests have nightmares
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Angela and the Beadsman are dead || * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Motif of cold: 'slept among his ashes cold' (378)
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Religious imagery: Beadsman (377), 'aves' (377) reference to the Ave Maria prayer
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Metaphor: 'warrior-guests'
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Dark Imagery: 'storm' (371), 'of witch, and demon, and large coffin-worm' (374), 'long be-nightmared' (375), 'died palsy-twitched' 'face deform' (376), 'ashes' (378)
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Ties back to the Beadsman at the end of the poem, earlier foreshadowing of his death is fulfilled
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Death of Angela as punishment for helping Porphyro? ||