Maiden Marie
- Lanval goes out one night and ends up getting separated from his horse
- Two women approach him in his low moment and say that they are taking him away to his Madien
- Marie and Lanval meet, are immediently drawn to one anothre and joined together, under the circumstance that Lanval never tell anyone about their love
Conflict
- Marie and Lanval separate for the time being
- In defense to conflict aand accusations from Queen Guinevere, Lanval accidently revels his secret of his love with Marie
- The King organizes a trial for Lanval in order to appease the queen's accusations against Lanval
Overview of Plot
- Lanval was a knight of King Arthur that possesed great qulaities
- These qualities made other men jealous, ultimately resulting in envy towards lanval
Lanval's Escape
Plot continued...
- While Lanval was a loyal knight to Kinig Arthur, he was looked past because of the bad relations between him and other men
- Overall, Lanval was living a lonely life amongst the other knights
- The king desparately wanted to prove Lanval guilty
- However, Marie sent two women more beautiful than Queen Guinevere to "test" his faithfulness
- After Lanval makes no advances towards the women because he is obviously infatuated with Lady Marie, it is obvious that the Queen's accusations were false, Lanval and Lady Marie leave together
LaNval - A POEM ABOUT AN OUTCAST
Analysis
- To me this story shows an outcast with all good intentions and great qualities, yet not accepted by his world around him
- He finds great love, yet cannot share it with others around him
- In interpreting this piece, I took this as their love was too pure in a sense to even be shown to the judegmental world around the two
- These two knew who they were and what they had together, and I think that they knew they along with their relationship was too good to be ruined by the worl'd evils
Literary Devices
- Descriptive imagery was the most used/apparent device in this poem
- As stated in the analysis, the twos relationship and Lady Marie were portayed as too pure for the real world
- The author describes Marie coming in as "in all the world there is none more beautiful"
- The use and the reference of the color white symbolizes purity and innocence, and there were many references to the Lady using the color white
- "White palfrey", "shift of white linen", "neck whiter than snow on a branch...sparkling eyes and white skin"