Question

I see a lily on thy brow Which is the BEST interpretation of this line from the poem? A) Your face is as white as a lily. B) You seem to be in deep mourning. C) I imagine that you are wearing flowers. D) I see that you have been marked by heaven.

Answer 1

A) Your face is white as a lily

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Answer 2

I believe the right answer is most likely the first option: A) Your face is as white as a lily.

This line was taken from the third stanza of the poem "La Belle Dame Sans Merci", by John Keats. The full stanza is as follows:

I see a lily on thy brow,

With anguish moist and fever-dew,

And on thy cheek a fading rose

Fast withereth too.

In the beginning of the poem, the speaker is asking a knight what happened to him, why he looks so sad and distressed. His face is pale and moist, like a lily. From the fourth stanza on, the knight tells his tale. He met a fairy in the woods and was seduced by her. In the end, however, he is imprisoned by the fairy and condemned to a sad fate.

And this is why I sojourn here,

Alone and palely loitering,

Though the sedge is withered from the lake,

And no birds sing.