Lord+Randall

=Lord Randall=

Pg. 195


 * The literary device used in this poem is repetition.
 * The only lines that change are the third lines in every stanza.
 * Except the last one, where the third and fourth line are changed.


 * He is a man who returns home feeling ill and alone.


 * What we think happened in this poem is that he had dinner with his “true love” and his mother notices that he is a changed man.
 * He is in that stage of love where she is all he can think about.
 * He doesn’t seem to care that his hounds have all died
 * All he wants to do is go to bed and have sweet dreams of his next encounter with his “true love”

QUESTIONS

“O I fear ye are poisn’d, my handsome young man!’ ‘ O Yes! I am poisn’d; mother, make my bed soon, for I am sick at the heart, and I fain wald lie down.” (line 18, pg. 195) How might love be like a poison?

Key Words
__fain__ - gladly __wald__ - would __broo__ - broth