Missing ones
Mark Scheme – Question 1 Re-read La Belle Dame sans Merci and My Last Duchess. Compare how power is shown through relationships in La Belle Dame sans Merci and in My Last Duchess. La Belle Dame sans Merci (AO2) Responses may include: The faery’s child wields power over the knight through her beauty and supernatural charm: he is ‘alone and palely loitering’ after she abandons him. The knight’s vulnerability shows the imbalance of power in the relationship. Repetition of ‘wild eyes’ and the description of her ‘light of foot’ emphasise her dominance over him. The use of the ballad form, with regular rhyme in the second and fourth lines, creates a rhythmic, almost hypnotic effect, reflecting the control the lady has over the knight. Pathetic fallacy highlights the knight’s powerlessness: the ‘sedge has withered’ and ‘no birds sing’ mirror his emotional desolation. The knight’s dream of other ‘pale kings’ and ‘princes’ suggests a history of men powerless before her, reinf...
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