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The story of Christabel concerns a central female character of the same name and her encounter with a stranger called Geraldine, who claims to have been abducted from her home by a band of rough men. Christabel goes into the woods to pray by the large oak tree, where she hears a strange noise.
A furlong from the castle gate? She had dreams all yesternight. Of her own betrothèd knight; And she in the midnight wood will pray. For the weal of her lover that's far away. She stole along, she nothing spoke, The sighs she heaved were soft and low, And naught was green upon the oak. But moss and rarest misletoe:
Coleridge's ‘Christabel’ weaves a tale of eerie encounters and supernatural elements in a medieval setting.
Christabel, unfinished Gothic ballad by Samuel Taylor Coleridge, first published in Christabel; Kubla Khan, A Vision; The Pains of Sleep (1816). The first part of the poem was written in 1797, the second in 1800. In it Coleridge aimed to show how naked energy might be redeemed through contact with.
Then Christabel knelt by the lady's side, And rais'd to heaven her eyes so blue--Alas! said she, this ghastly ride--Dear lady! it hath wilder'd you! The lady wip'd her moist cold brow, And...
Sep 5, 2023 · Complete summary of Samuel Taylor Coleridge's Christabel. eNotes plot summaries cover all the significant action of Christabel.
May 13, 2011 · Read, review and discuss the Christabel poem by Samuel Taylor Coleridge on Poetry.com.
Christabel [excerpt] A sight to dream of, not to tell! O shield her! shield sweet Christabel! Ah! what a stricken look was hers! And lay down by the Maiden's side!—. Ah wel-a-day! These words did say: Which is lord of thy utterance, Christabel! This poem is in the public domain.
Feb 16, 2021 · Christabel (as will Madeline in John Keats’s “The Eve of St. Agnes,” which is a kind of happy revision of Christabel) has gone outside the safe and sacred precincts of the castle she lives in to perform a prayer for the knight to whom she is betrothed. She has dreamed of him, and somehow that dream has caused her anxiety.
Overview. Samuel Taylor Coleridge, a key figure in the British Romantic Era of poetry wrote the Gothic narrative poem “Christabel” in two parts, the first in 1797, and the second in 1800. Though it was still unfinished, “Christabel” was published in 1816. “Christabel” is Coleridge’s longest poem, at almost 700 lines.
