Christabel | The Poetry Foundation For the weal of her lover that's far away And in silence prayeth she The lovely lady Christabel! But what it is she cannot tell — Of the huge, broad-breasted, old oak tree Is it the wind that moaneth bleak? On the topmost twig that looks up at the sky Hush, beating heart of Christabel! Jesu, Maria, shield her well!
Christabel (poem) - Wikipedia The story of Christabel concerns a central female character of the same name and her encounter with a stranger called Geraldine, who claims to have been abducted from her home by a band of rough men Christabel goes into the woods to pray by the large oak tree, where she hears a strange noise
Christabel (TV Mini Series 1988) - IMDb Christabel: With Elizabeth Hurley, Stephen Dillane, Nigel Le Vaillant, Geoffrey Palmer An English woman's marriage to a German lawyer is tested when her husband is imprisoned for an anti-Hitler plot, forcing her to consider using her tie to Winston Churchill to secure his release
Christabel by Samuel Taylor Coleridge - Poem Analysis ‘Christabel‘ tells the story of a young woman named Christabel who encounters a mysterious and seemingly distressed woman named Geraldine in the forest, bringing her home only to discover Geraldine’s malevolent nature
Christabel | Romanticism, Ballad, Gothic | Britannica Christabel is the innocent, virtuous daughter of Sir Leoline While praying in the woods at night for her fiancé, she finds Geraldine, a lady in distress whom she takes home to her father’s castle
Samuel Taylor Coleridge – Christabel - Genius For the weal of her lover that's far away And in silence prayeth she The lovely lady, Christabel! But what it is, she cannot tell -- Of the huge, broad-breasted, old oak tree
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Coleridge’s Poems “Christabel” (Part I, 1797; Part II, 1800 . . . Christabel tells Geraldine to drink a cordial wine that Christabel’s mother made from wild flowers and which contains “virtuous powers ” Geraldine then asks if she would be pitied by Christabel’s mother
Christabel - Archive. org Christabel is not only a fragment, it is a sequence of fragments composed at different times and in different places It is impossible to assign an exact date to the composi¬ tion of the First Part In the Preface to the pamphlet entitled Christabel: Kubla Khan, A Vision, c , which was published in 1816, Coleridge writes “The first part
Analysis of Coleridge’s Christabel – Literary Theory and . . . The Rime of the Ancient Mariner is the greatest single poem in this mode, but Christabel is a close second The story it tells hardly gets anywhere, but the psychological depths it probes show how deeply Coleridge plumbed his own mind Like William Shakespeare, Coleridge was deeply attuned to the experience of fatherhood