La Belle Dame Sans Merci Abandonment Quotes Page 2
I cite by line number only.
| Quote #4 And on thy cheeks a fading rose |
The "fading rose" on the knight's "cheeks" suggests his sickly paleness (his cheeks are no longer "rosy"), but the "fading rose" also suggests a failed love affair, since roses so often represent love.
| Quote #5 And I awoke and found me here |
After the knight wakes up from his nightmare about the "pale kings," he finds himself, quite literally, out in the cold.
| Quote #6 And this is why I sojourn here, |
The knight thinks that his crazy story about the beautiful lady and her "elfin grot" is an adequate answer to the opening speaker's question about what "ails" him. Of course, the story is so ambiguous that it's not much of an answer at all.
