William Morris: Day 2

"Had she come all the way for this, / To part at last without a kiss?" (ll.1-2)
"The Haystack in the Floods" (1858)

Points of Reflection

"In Prison" (1858)

1. consider the meaning of "the banner rolls / Over my wrong."

" Spell-bound" (1858)

2. is the primary narrator a knight or his lady?

3. does this poem have an auditor?

4. who speaks the italicized lines?

5. which of the events described has actually occured, and which are imagined?

"Golden Wings" (1858)

6. what the heck is going on in this poem, and what is the significance of the final stanzas?

7. what does the color green suggest in this poem?

"The Haystack in the Floods" (1858)

8. is there a clear demarcation between right and wrong action in this poem? Any heroes?

9. are there limits to this narrator's knowledge, or is s/he omniscient?

"Arthur's Tomb: The Last Meeting of Launcelot and Guinevere" (1854)
Dante Gabriel Rossetti

Paul Marchbanks
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