Poetry analysis 'Morte D'Arthur'

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Although 'Morte D'Arthur' spirals through many stages, none is touched upon to the extent at which it exercises pathos. Throughout it draws upon the reader's emotions heavily, and enforces a feeling of overwhelming pity until its last breath. 'The Prisoner of Chillon', although similar in the aspect that it too bears the countenance of a distressing piece of literature, does differ in tone slightly, for it clearly relies more on the absolution of despair to deliver its message. It too contains pathos in liberal amounts but is not governed by it as the other. 'The Prisoner of Chillon' pushes past the levels of sympathy and invokes an unwavering sense of hopelessness that traps the reader in misery as effectively as the stone prison he relates to us traps its prisoners. From a summary of the poems you would think that the gathered opinions should be the reversed for in 'The Prisoner of Chillon' leaves its protagonist with his life while the other ends with the death of a great king and all he represents, yet the method in which both spin their tales make you feel more misery on behalf of the prisoner then for the