2. The interest reawakened in the King by Douglas’s prowess and generosity.
3. The arrival of Ellen at the court.
4. The battle of Beal ’an Duine.
5. Roderick’s death.
6. The freeing of Malcolm.
7. The restoration of the Douglases.
Scott’s Use of Description.
All of Scott’s works afford excellent models of description for the beginner in this very difficult form of composition. He deals with the problems of description in a simple and evident manner. In most cases he begins his description with the point of view, and chooses the details in accordance with that point of view. The principle of order used in the arrangement of the details is usually easy to find and follow, and the beauty of his contrasts, the vanity and vividness of his diction can be in a measure appreciated even by boys and girls in the first year of the high school. If properly taught a pupil must leave the study of the poem with a new sense of the power of words. In his description of character Scott deals with the most simple and elemental emotions and is therefore fairly easy to imitate. In the special topics under each canto special emphasis has been laid upon description because of the adaptability of his description to the needs of the student.
[Special Studies in the Cantos.]
CANTO I.