Suggestive analysis can be of little help at this point, the work must be done in the class-room under direction.
To such stimulating exercise in the vocal interpretation of these poems of action, I leave you and your imagination. I shall hope to find difficulty in recognizing either of you at our next meeting. Like Mr. Rhoades's[11] pupil when he emerged from the Ninth book of Paradise Lost, you ought to have "outgrown all your present intellectual clothes" in the study of these stories in verse.
As further material for this study there is no better choice to be made than Tennyson's great quasi-epic, The Idylls of the King, from which but for lack of space we should have printed selections. The following suggestions for work in composition at this point are based on the Idylls.
Describe in your own words Camelot.
Write an imaginary scene between Gareth and his mother.
Tell the story of Elaine.
Make the Holy Grail into the form of a miracle play.