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In the poem, 'The Glove and the Lions', who does Count de Lorge 'sigh for'?
Topic: Count de Lorge and the lady
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Answer
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(d) The beauteous lively dame.
Explanation
"Sighed for" is the old poetic idiom for being in love with someone. Leigh Hunt sets up the Count’s love in the opening stanzas so that the ending can overturn it: the lady drops her glove among the lions to make him prove that love, he fetches it and then flings it in her face. Knowing whom he sighs for is the hinge of the whole poem.
In words
The beauteous lively dame.
Example
The beauteous lively dame — the lady he loves.
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