Answer:
to reflect the same ideas about love and “madness” that have run through the play
Step-by-step explanation:
"King Arthur's Socks: A Comedy In One Act" by Floyd Dell is a one act play satirizing the famous character of Lancelot from the legends of King Arthur. In the play, Lancelot visits the house of Guenevere Robinson before he was to leave the village. Guenevere made him read a poem about love and the madness it brings for the tormented lovers. The author Floyd Dell might have chosen to make him recite the poem to reflect the same issue of the ideas about love and madness that have run through the play itself, with the female characters in love with Lancelot one way or the other.