Love - Complete information on this poem by author S.T.Coleridge

Love - Complete information on this lesson by author S.T.Coleridge

About the Text :

"Love" is one of Coleridge's most interesting and beautiful poems. The poem "Love" is extracted from the Tale of the Dark Ladies in which there is an introduction to Genevieve. In this poem, the poet has created an imaginary beloved Genevieve. In 1800, Coleridge moved to the Lake District with the Wordsworths. His marriage was increasingly unhappy and he had fallen disastrously in love with Wordsworth's future sister-in-law Sara Hutchinson as recorded in "Love" and other Asra poems. His use of opium became a crippling addiction. In this poem. the poet has described his unrequited love affair with Genevieve. It is a creation of the poet's imagination. Her emotional reactions to the story are very delicate and subtle. The poet succeeds in depicting them minutely and accurately. The poem illustrates many of the best qualities of Coleridge's poetry. The poet's description of the natural landscape is outstanding. Some of the words and pictures found in the poem are very vivid and appealing.

S.T.Coleridge

About the Author :

Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772-1834) was a poet, critic, and philosopher of romanticism. He was the youngest son of the Vicar of Ottery St Mary, Devon. He was destined for the church. A temperamental dreamy child, he was sent away after his father's early death to Christ's Hospital School, London, where his precious classical reading and powers of inspired talk which never left him attracted a circle of young admirers, including Leigh Hunt and future essayist Charles Lamb. At Jesus College Cambridge (1792-94) a brilliant career in classics was diverted by the French revolutionary politics. heavy drinking and an unhappy love affair which led Coleridge to enlist in desperation in the 15th Light Dragoons. He died in 1834 and was buried in Church. The works of Coleridge are divided into three kinds the poetic, the critical, and the philosophical. They correspond to the early, the middle, and the later periods of his poetry. His notable poems are "Kubla Khan", "Christabel" and "The Rime of the Ancient Mariner.

Summary

The poem "Love" is written by Samuel Tyler Coleridge and is one of his favorite poems. The present poem is written in the form of Povada and the present poem tells another story from the story. The poem is based on Coleridge's "Tale of the Dark Ladie" and mentions Genevieve. In the poem, the poet creates a fictional lover named Genevieve. The creation is yes and her emotional reactions are very gentle and touching. The poet has portrayed these reactions in a very subtle and precise way.

The poem presents the poet's deep knowledge of human psychology. Here the poet tells the story of a prince's love for a woman, and as he listens to his beloved Genevieve, the story changes at every turn. Her emotional response to the love story told by the poet is very tender and touching and the poet has presented it very strictly and accurately.

From the very beginning of the poem, according to the poet, thoughts, intense emotions, and happiness are the basic sources of love. These feelings are present in human beings and love is a sacred feeling that should always be cherished. And that over time it Does not change.  Love is a sacred feeling. In the next stanza of the poem, the poet says that love is like an awakened dream.  He collects those sweet memories and rejoices.

In the next stanza of the poem, the moon appears in the dim light of evening and at the same time his beloved Genevieve arrives at his place as his hope and 'joy'. The poet is very much in love with Genevieve.  Had arrived.  He always remembered that happy moment.  The light of that moon was spreading very slowly and stealthily everywhere.  And in such a beautiful and wonderful environment, his sweetheart, Janekik, was also present to enhance the presentation.  She was leaning against the back of the statue of the armed chief.  She was standing there listening to his songs.  The poet then began to tell the story of the prince and the woman's unrequited love.  How that woman had denied the love of that chief.

 In the next stanza, the poet tells of Genevieve, and how she was so innocent and happy in her life.  There was no sorrow in her life.  But, she always feels sympathy for the other's grief, Villa cares about the other's grief so she wants to hear that sad song of the poet.  As the poet narrates the gentle story of the love of that chief, she bows her head and hears it.  And in the meantime, she realizes that the poet is observing her face.

The poet begins to tell the heartbreaking story of the prince, his deep love for the young woman who had denied his love.  He had been in love with her for ten years but she was always in love with him, he was in love with her.  He used to tell his story like this.  It was as if he were expressing his love for his own genetics.  She, too, was listening intently, and Kamila could not help but stare at him.  And it was the first sign that Nevine was in love with the poet.

In the next stanza, the poet says that Kashakkare is the chief of that woman who Was in love.  But she didn't care.  He was obsessed with her.  He left home.  He was wandering in the forest day and night.  David was in the same situation and so he was trying to convey his own voice, his own love to Geneva.  The poet recounts how the chief was in such a state, that he was threatened, wandering in the dark in the company of wild animals, and sometimes wandering in the open grasslands.  He was obsessed with her thoughts, which he still loved.  And then he sees a beautiful fairy but, suddenly he realizes that she was not a fairy but a child.  There was an evil spirit, maybe a monster.  Satan may have tried to seduce the prince by disguising himself as a fairy.  But the prince immediately realizes that she is Satan, not a fairy.  So he did not fall in love with her.  He remained strong and loyal to his beloved.

While wandering through the forest, the chief finds his girlfriend in the clutches of some goons, who are trying to molest her.  The chief saw it and bravely rescued her from the clutches of the goon.  When the woman saw that her rejected lover had risked her life to save her from a great humiliation, she grabbed hold of the prince's feet.  It was as if she had apologized to him for her cruelty in the past, crying and thanking him for saving her life, remembering her refusal, and acknowledging that she was responsible for the change.  And she agreed to suffer the consequences of the negative feelings she had created about him and decided to try to get him out of it.  She.  The mistress took the chief to the cave where she nursed him, but it was too late.  She could not save him.  All her efforts were in vain.  Maybe his madness was gone and his senses were beginning to feel but he was now dead.

Now the poet has come to the most compassionate part of his story.  But he did not immediately make the statement in front of his girlfriend (Genevieve).  His voice trailed off, and he stopped playing the harp.  Genevieve. There was also a feeling of empathy. The incident with the chief made her fearful and she immediately expressed her feelings to the poet. She expressed his love for the poet which she had kept in her mind for a long time. She could no longer control herself, nor could she control her emotions. She began to cry with joy. She was ashamed to express her love for him, and her shyness made her feel holy. The poet heard his name from her mouth and he too was overwhelmed with joy.

The poet's lover was also overwhelmed with joy and her breathing started rapidly. Her heart started pounding and then she noticed that the poet was staring at her and she leaned a little. She didn't think it was right to confess her love to him so quickly but at that moment her love was real and she ran towards him. There was fear in her eyes and suddenly she started crying. She was then held in his arms. She stared at his face. Both love and fear were visible on her face, she didn't want to show the emotion in her eyes, but he could clearly feel the movement in her heart. In this way, she expressed her love for the poet. But she was still scared. The poet removed the fear from her mind and comforted her. Then her mind calmed down. She expressed her love for him more openly and thus the poet won over his beautiful and radiant lover Genevieve. The poet won the love of Geneva through the compassionate love story of Sardar. The poet expressed his love for his beloved in another's love song and he succeeded in getting her love.

Write Short Answer type Questions

Q.1:- How many stanzas are there in the poem? comment on the verse and the rhyme scheme.? 

Ans: The poem "Love" is written by Samuel Tylor Coleridge and this is one of Coleridge's most interesting and beautiful poems. It is written in the form of a Ballad and describes a story within a story. The poem "Love" is extracted from the Tale of the Dark ladies in which there is an introduction to Genevieve. In this poem, the poet has created an imaginary beloved Genevieve. The poet has described his unrequited love affair with Genevieve. It is a creation of the poet's imagination. Her emotional reactions to the story are very delicate and subtle. The poet succeeds in depicting them minutely and accurately. The poem illustrates many of the best qualities of Coleridge's poetry. The poet's description of the natural landscape is outstanding.

"Love" is one of the most interesting and beautiful poems composed by Samuel Taylor Coleridge. He is a romantic poet, critic, and philosopher. The poem contains twenty-four stanza that is separated into sets of four lines or quatrains. Each of these quatrains follows the rhyming pattern of abcb, alternating end sounds as the poet saw fit. Coleridge has also chosen to imbue this piece with a structured pattern of the meter. The first three lines of each stanza are written in iambic tetrameter. This means that each line contains two sets of two beats or iambs, The first of these is unstressed and the second stressed. The last line of the stanza is different though, it only contains three iambs, meaning that it is written in iambic trimeter.

The poem is written in a fixed verse. It is written in Ballad form. It is a narrative poem written in a Series of quatrains in which lines of iambic tetrameter alternate with iambic trimeter. It is written straightforwardly with graphic simplicity and force, ballads are lyrical and convey a wide range of subjects frequently associated with folklore or popular legends.

Q.2:- Give an account of the story of the knight and the lady of the land narrated by the poet? 

Ans: The poem "Love" is written by Samuel Tylor Coleridge and this is one of Coleridge's most interesting and beautiful poems. It is written in the form of a ballad and describes a story within a story. In this poem, the poet has created an imaginary beloved Genevieve. The poet has described his unrequited love affair with Genevieve. It is a creation of the poet's imagination. Her emotional reactions to the story are very delicate and subtle. The poet describes his own love for Genevieve, though by the medium of the story of the knight's love for the Lady of the Land. It describes the personal emotions of the poet and his personality is constantly felt in the poem.

The theme of the poem is the glorification of love. Love according to the poet, is the supreme passion of human beings, and all the other passions are subordinated to it. They, moreover, contribute something to the passion of love; they stimulate, inspire, and sustain love, and make its fire more steadily and brightly. This is the main theme of the poem which is described in the very first stanza. The poet then proceeds to narrate the circumstances of the time and place in which he sought to win the love of Genevieve. He does not express his love directly. He describes the sorrowful story of a certain knight who was treated with cruel scorn by the lady he loved. The poet begins to sing the pathetic story of a knight who carried the mark of a burning torch on his Shield He had a deep love for a lady who rejected his love. For ten years he continued to love that lady but that lady always treated him with a cruel scam. He pined in her love. The poet narrated the story of that knight in a deep, low, and pleading tone and thus expressed his own love for Genevive, she continued to listen to his song intently.

The poet tells Genevieve how the knight languished for the love of the lady of the Land. The knight had a deep love for the lady, but she did not care for him. Her cruel scorn towards him drove him mad. He left his home and wandered into the lonely woods, without taking any rest day and night. The Knight is haunted by the thoughts of the "Lady of the Land" whom he still loves. And then he sees a beautiful angel but, to his horror, he realizes that it is not an angel but a fiend an evil spirit. A friend in the shape of a beautiful angel tried to tempt the knight. But the knight immediately realized that it was a friend, not an angel, and did not yield to temptation. He remained firm and constant in his love for that Indy.

The knight wanders through the mountain and forests and finds that the lady accidentally fell into the hands of some ruffians who wanted to molest her. The knight saw it and heroically saved that lady from the clutches of those ruffians. When that lady realise that her rejected lover had risked his life and saved her from the worst dishonor. She repented for her past cruelty towards him. Now she accepts the punishment of his negative and changed feelings for her and tries to rid him of them. The lady took the knight into the cave where she nurses him. But it was too late. She could not save him. All her efforts proved useless. His madness, however, went away and his senses returned to him when he lay a dying man on the Yellow forest leaves.

Q.3:- What is the Speaker's or poet's intention in telling Genevieve the story of the Knight and the lady of the Land.?

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The poem "Love" is one of Coleridge's most interesting and beautiful poems. The poem 'Love' is extracted from the "Tale of the Dark Ladie" in which there is an introduction to Genevieve. The poet has created an imaginary beloved Genevieve. And he has described his unrequited love affair with Genc level. It is a creation of the poet's imagination. The poem describes a situation dramatically. The poem contains a story within a story. It describes two love affairs: the love of the miserable Knight for the Lady of the Land, and the deep but unexpressed love of the poet for his beautiful and innocent Genevieve, though by the medium of the story of the knight's love for the lady of the Land. It describes the personal emotions of the poet, and his personality is constantly felt in the poem.

The theme of the poem is the glorification of love. Love according to the poet, is the supreme passion of human beings, and all the other passions are subordinated to it. They moreover contribute something to the passion of love; they stimulate, inspire, and sustain love, and make its fire more steadily and brightly. This is the main theme of the poem. The poet then proceeds to narrate the circumstances of the time and place in which he sought to win the love of Genevieve. He does not express his love directly. He describes the sorrowful story of a certain knight who was treated with a cruel scam by the lady he loved. His disappointment in love turned him mad and he lost his senses. He lost all interest in life and wandered in the forest. There he once rescued his lady love from the clutches of some wild ruffians who wanted to molest her chastity. The Lady then realized the worth and the deep love of her lover and nursed him day and night to save him. But all her efforts proved fruitless, and she could not save that knight. He died, but not without recovering his senses in the end when he regained sanity on his death bed, he said something to that Lady which the poet could not relate to as it was the most pathetic part of the story. His heart overflowed with emotions, his voice flattered, and his hands stopped on the harp. The poet was in reality mourning his own miserable condition in describing the sad and unfortunate condition of the Knight. Genevieve realized this. She felt pity for the knight, and also for her own lover who was not less disconsolate and miserable. The death of the knight in the story made her apprehensive.

Genevieve feels pity for the knight as well as her lover, the influence of the temptingly romantic sense, the quick alternation of her own hopes and fears, and the gradual increase of her love for the poet, all had a very strong effect on her, and she not without some hesitation and shyness; ultimately yielded to his love and confessed her love in an open manner The poet thus succeeds in exciting and winning the love of Genevieve.

Q.4:- What makes Genevieve express her love? 

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The poem "Love" is written by S.T. Coleridge and this is one of Coleridge's most interesting and beautiful poems. It is written in the form of a ballad and describes a story within a story. The poem. "Love" is extracted from the "Tale of the Dark Ladie" in which there is an introduction to Genevieve. In this poem, the poet has created an imaginary beloved Genevieve. The poet has described his unrequited love affair with Genevieve. The poem contains a story within a story. It describes two love affairs; the love of the miserable Knight for the Lads of the Land and the deep but unexpressed love of the poet for his beautiful and innocent Genevieve. The poem describes the poet's own love for Genevieve, though by the medium of the story of the Knight's love for the Lady of the Land. It describes the personal emotions of the poet, and his personality is constantly felt in the poem.

The poet knows that Genevieve is full of pity and sympathy for others' sorrows. She was perfectly innocent and happy in her life. She had no sorrows of her own. But She was full of tender files of sympathy for other's sorrows, and therefore loved the poet best whenever he sang sorrowful songs before her. The poet begins to sit the pathetic story of a knight, who had a deep love for a Lady of Land for ten years he continued to love that lady, but that lady always treated him with a cruel scam. He pined in her love. The poet narrated the story of that knight in a deep, low, and pleading tone and thus expressed his own love for Genevieve. She continued to listen to his song intently and forgave him for gazing too lovingly at her face and this is the first indication that she begins to yield to the poet's love. The poet tells Genevieve how the knight languished for the love of the Lady of the land. The Knight had a deep love for the lady but she did not care for him. Her cruel scorn towards him drove him mad. He left his home and wandered into the lonely woods, without taking any rest day and night. The song, verses, and words that the poet used here indicate his own deep feelings for Genevieve.

The knight is haunted by the thoughts of the "lady of the land.". Whom he still loves. And then he sees a beautiful angel but, to his horror, realizes that it is not an angel but a fiend- an evil spirit, perhaps the devil. A friend in the shape of a beautiful angle tried to tempt the Knight. But the knight immediately realized that it was a fiend,, not an angel, and did not yield to temptation. He remained firm and constant in his love for that lady while wandering through the mountain and forest. The Knight finds that the lady accidentally falls into the hands of some ruffians who wanted to molest her. The knight saved her from the clutches of those ruffians. The lady now understands the knight's love and repented for her past cruelty towards him. She now weeps and begs for his mercy for her previous scornful attitude. The lady took the knight with her and they went into the cave, where she nurses him. But it was too late. She could not save him. All her efforts proved useless. His madness, however, went away and his senses returned to him when he lay a dying man on the yellow forest leaves.

The poet knows that Genevieve is full of pity and sympathy for others' sorrows. He tries to win her love by singing to her the story of the frustrated knight who was scornfully rejected by his lady. The sad story of the knight arouses feelings of pity in Genevieve. She feels strong emotions at the miseries of the knight. Her heart is thrilled by the feelings of hope and fear. She has worked up to so strong emotions that she cannot suppress her own feelings of love for the poet. She wept with pity and delight. She blushed at expressing her love for him and felt the shyness befitting a virgin. The poet heard her speak out his name slowly and faintly. In this way, she expressed her love for the poet.

Q.5:- How are the factors of location and time suitable to the action in this poem?

Ans: The poem "Love" is written by S.T.Coleridge and this is one of Coleridge's most interesting and beautiful poems. It is written in the form of a ballad and describes a story within a story. It describes two Love affairs. The love of the miserable Knight for the Lady of the Land, and the deep but unexpressed love of the poet for his beautiful and innocent Genevieve. The poem describes the poet's own love for Genevieve, by the medium of the story of the Knight's love for the Lady of the Land. It describes the personal emotions of the poet, and his personality is constantly felt in the poem

The theme of the poem is the glorification of love. Love according to the poet, is the supreme passion of human beings, and all the other passions are subordinated to it. The poet then proceeds to narrate the circumstances of the time or place in which he sought to win the love of Genevieve. He does not express his love directly. He describes the sorrowful story of a certain Knight who was treated with a cruel scam by the lady he loved. His disappointment in love turned him mad and he lost his senses. He lost all interest in life and wandered in the forest. There he once rescued his lady-love from the clutches of some wild ruffians who wanted to molest her chastity. The lady then realized the worth and the deep love of her lover and nursed him day and night to save him. But all her efforts proved fruitless, and She could not save that Knight. He died, but not without recovering his senses in the end. When he regained the Sanity on his death bed, he said something to that lady that the poet could not relate to, as it was the most pathetic part of the story. His heart overflowed with emotions, his voice faltered, and his hands stopped on the harp. The poet was in reality mourning his own miserable condition in describing the salt and unfortunate condition of the Knight of the Burning Brand. Genevieve realized this: she felt pity for the knight, and also for her own lover who was not less disconsolate and miserable. The death of the knight in the story made her apprehensive. All these stories had a very strong effect on her, and she not without some hesitation and shyness; ultimately yielded to his love- and openly confessed her love. The poet thus succeeds in exciting and winning the love of Genevieve.

The poem is highly romantic. The time and place are romantic and therefore very suitable for describing the story of the love of that dejected and miserable Knight. The poet was laying halfway up the mountain beside a ruined tower. The time was evening. The moon was climbing up the sky and the moonlight was slowly and stealthily spreading over the scene. In such a beautiful and romantic place the poet was enjoying the company of Genevieve, who leaned against the statue of an armed knight. The sorrowful tune and the old rustic song which the poet sang harmonized well with the surrounding atmosphere. In such a wild and romantic atmosphere the poet indirectly expressed his own feelings of love for Genevieve by narrating the sad story of that miserable Knight, whose love was treated with scornful contempt by the lady he loved. The song, verses, and words that the poet used were indicative of his own deep feelings for Genevieve. The poet's condition is similar to that of the Knight and he gives voice to his own love for the Genevieve in this way.

Answer the following questions in about 300 words.

Q.1:- Describe how the poem brings Out Coleridge's minute ob servation on natural phenomena. 

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The poem "Love" is written by Samuel Taylor Coleridge and this is one of Coleridge's most exciting and beautiful poems. It is written in the form of a ballad and described a story within a story. In this poem, the poet has created an imaginary beloved Genevieve. The poet describes his unrequited love affair with Genevieve. The poem illustrates Coleridge's deep knowledge of human psychology. The poem is beautifully rerepresentsany of the best qualities of Coleridge's poetry. It is a dream poem that is remarkable for its sweet music, enchanting melody, and his minute observation of natural phenomena.

According to the poet, thoughts, passion, and delights are the prime sources of love. These feelings fill the human body and the poet states that love is a sacred emotion that must be "fed' continuously. It does not change over time. Love is a pure feeling which is the driving force in the poem. He described love as a waking dream. He sleeps and experiences a happy dream on his horse near the ruined tower. He recollects the sweet memories and cherishes them. The poet has a minute observation of nature which he had used in his poetry, very minutely and accurately. The poet describes the evening's beauty of nature while describing the beauty of Genevieve. The moon appears with the evening light creating much beauty and at this time Genevieve appears as his "hope" and 'joy'. The poet had a great love for Genevieve. Once in the evening time, when the moon was climbing up the sky, he lay midway on a hill beside a ruined tower. He quite often recollects that happy time. The moonlight was slowly and stealthily spreading over the scene. And in such a beautiful and romantic atmosphere the poet's beloved. Genevieve was also present and enhancing its beauty. She leaned against the statue of an armed knight. She stood there in this manner and listened to the poet who began to play on his harp and sing an old song in the lingering twilight. The poet then narrates to her a story in verse of unrequited love between the knight and a woman, the woman rejecting the knight's love.

The poet narrator says that in the time frame of his "Waking dreams" he relives a particular incident from the past. When he lay on a 'Mount," beside "the ruined tower". The image of the tower becomes emblematic of the nature of this memory that will be recollected. The poet then transports the reader to that memory of his where it appears to be twilight where the moonlight and the light of the fading evening are entwining. Here, in this memory, stood his beloved Genevieve. The imagery is near Gothic in nature: the old tower, a mount that could be a grave, and moonlight shining down on the scene, but this does nothing to distract from the poet's happiness. In fact, he cleverly uses the somber surroundings as a contrast, further emphasizing his joy.

Genevieve is free from all stress and she is listening to him. Hence the poet indulges her with an old sad story, Whose rustic quality was well suited for the landscape they were in that of the tower. The knight tale seems to minor the plight of the poet narrator, and in that there is a moment of recognition as he "sang another's Love/interpreted my own and the narrating of that tale thus becomes a means of venting his own feelings towards Genevieve. She also continues to modestly listen. forgiving his insolent gaze. The poet narrates how the knight's plight, and the extent of his sorrow for being rejected, make him roam dangerously close to savage animals, dark places, and sometimes grassy open areas. The knight is haunted by the thought of " Lady of the Land" Whom he still loves. He wonders through the mountain and forests the knight finds that the lady accidentally fell into the hands of some ruffians who wanted to molest her. The knight saved her from the clutches of those ruffians. When the lady saw that her rejected lover had risked his life and saved her from the worst dishonor, She repented for her past cruelty towards him. The medieval scene takes a turn for the gothic as the setting becomes darker, like the tale itself, and the knight is nursed in a cave. Thereafter, the " madness" of the knight is called as he nears death. When the poet narrator is about to sing out the dying words of the knight his faltering voice and " pausing harp" move Genevieve greatly. Then, Genevieve is stirred by what she has heard, and the poet's music and words. The poet notices and begins to hope for a successful realization of his desired love story with Genevieve. She weeps with sorrow for the woeful tale and delights in her realization of her love for him. This she expressed her love for him more openly but with virgin pride.

Q.2:-Examine the theme of the speaker's genuine love for the lady.

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The poem Love is one of Coleridge's most interesting and beautiful love poems. It is written in the form of a ballad and describes a story within a story. The poem's composition was originally involved with that of The Tale of the Dark Ladies, to which it was to have been an introduction. Genevieve, the beloved in this poem, is a creature of the poet's imagination.

The poem Love also describes a situation dramatically. The poem contains a story within a story. It describes two love affairs the love of the miserable Knight for the Lady of the Land, and the deep but unexpressed love of the poet for his beautiful and innocent Genevieve The poet had a great love for Genevieve. Once in the evening time, when the moon was climbing up the sky, he lay midway on a hill beside a ruined tower. He quite often recollects that happy time. The moonlight was slowly and stealthily spreading over the scene. And in such a beautiful and romantic atmosphere the poet's beloved, Genevieve, was also present and enhancing its beauty, She leaned against the statue of an armed knight. She stood there in this manner and listened to the poet who began to play on his harp and sing an old song in the lingering twilight.

Genevieve was perfectly innocent and happy in her life. She had no sorrows of her own. But she was full of tender feelings of sympathy for others' sorrows, and therefore loved the poet best whenever he sang sorrowful songs before her. The poet played a sweet and sorrowful tune and sang an old song that described a very pathetic and moving story. Though she listened to his song with a flitting blush and downcast eyes, she was all the time conscious that the poet was gazing at her face.

The poet now begins to sing the pathetic story of a Knight who carried the mark of a burning torch on his shield. He had a deep love for a lady who rejected his love. For ten long years, he continued to love that lady, but that lady always treated him with a cruel scam. He pined in her love. The poet narrated the story of that knight in a deep, low, and pleading tone and thus expressed his own love for Genevieve. Genevieve continued to listen to his song intently and forgave him for gazing too lovingly at her face. This is the first indication that Genevieve begins to yield to the poet's love.

The Knight had a deep love for the lady, but she did not care for him. Her cruel scam toward him drove him mad. He left his home and wandered into the lonely woods, without taking any rest day and night. A friend in the shape of a beautiful angel came there and tried to tempt the knight. But the knight immediately realized that it was a friend, not an angel, and did not yield to temptation. He removed firm and constant in his love for that lady. Once that lady accidentally fell into the hands of some ruffians

who wanted to molest her. The knight saw it and heroically saved that lady from the clutches of those ruffians. When that lady saw that her rejected lover had risked his life and saved her from the worst dishonor, she repented for her past cruelty towards him. She nursed him day and night and tried to remove that scom from his mind which had driven him mad. But it was too late. She could not save him. All her efforts proved useless. His madness, however, went away and his senses returned to him when he lay a dying man on the yellow forest leaves.

The poet now reaches the most pathetic part of the story-the last words of that knight spoken to that lady just before his death but he could not narrate it immediately. His voice faltered and his harp stopped. The soul of Genevieve was also disturbed with pity. She felt hopes and fears which came into her mind in so quick a succession that one might be taken to have caused the other. She even gave expression to her feelings of love for the poet which she was cherishing and concealed for a long time. Now she could not control herself, or suppress her feelings. She wept with pity and delight. She blushed at expressing her love for him and felt the shyness befitting a virgin.

In this manner, she expressed her love for the poet. But she was still afraid. The poet removed her fears and comforted her. She was then assured and felt easy in her mind. She then expressed her love for him more openly, but with virgin pride. And in this manner, the poet won Genevieve, his bright and beautiful bride.