Canto Two -- Additional Notes

[charles albert]

> ln 500: "Into a crackling, gulping swamp, and sank."
> 
> The dead center of the poem.  Hazel, like Ophelia, drowns.  See also Sir
> Walter Scott's _The Lady of the Lake_, which includes the lines: 
> 
> "The stag at eve had drunk his fill,
> Where danced the moon on Monan's rill,
> And deep his midnight lair had made
> In lone Glenartney's hazel shade...."
> 
> http://www.bartleby.com/222/0108.html


Or Eustacia Vye in Hardy's Return of the Native?

love,
cfa