Mr. Barfield’s Homework

Mr. Barfield’s

English/ Science

Lions & Tigers

Daily Work – April 6, 2023

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English/Science Tigers:

John Keats, ‘La Belle Dame sans Merci’.

Ballads were designed to be sung, but John Keats’s Romantic-era ballad about a medieval knight who falls under the thrall of a beautiful fairy-woman rewards recitation as much as singing, so don’t worry if you can’t hold a note:

O what can ail thee, knight-at-arms,
Alone and palely loitering?
The sedge has withered from the lake,
And no birds sing.

O what can ail thee, knight-at-arms,
So haggard and so woe-begone?
The squirrel’s granary is full,
And the harvest’s done.

I see a lily on thy brow,
With anguish moist and fever-dew,
And on thy cheeks a fading rose
Fast withereth too …