What impression of Lynette do you form from her interview with the king?
In her language is she coarse and rude, or only petulant and thoughtless?
After she is won by Gareth does she show any fineness of nature?
Describe the characters of Lot, Bellicent, Gawain, and Modred.
Interpretation.—What period of a man's life may Gareth be intended to typify?
What is the allegorical meaning of the gateway to the city of Camelot and of Merlin's description of the building of the city?
In Gareth's contests with the four knights for the possession of Lyonors' castle, what does each in turn typify? What does the poet mean by making the first three contests increasingly difficult? by the terror which the fourth knight inspires? by the easy victory over him? What does Lynette represent in her impulsive and persistent opposition to Gareth?
What does Gareth represent in his constant devotion to high ideals? What truth is illustrated by Gareth's overcoming the petulant opposition of Lynette?
Connect the teaching of this poem with the thought of the whole series.
Form.—What is the meter of the poem? What are the principal variations from the normal line in the number of syllables and the position of accents or stresses? Explain and illustrate cæsura, end-stopt line, run-on line. What variations do you find in the position of the pauses? What is the effect of the variations on the music of the verse?