Poetry · Character
Tristram
A knight of the Round Table whose tragic love affair shadows the poem's meditations on fame, loss, and the silence of the dead.
major
Also known as Sir Tristram
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Tristram moves through the poem as a figure of storied love and knightly renown, invoked among the great names whose passing leaves nature itself diminished. His legend of passion and betrayal haunts the verse's…
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- Tristram and Iseult
- Persian epic heroes
- Miscellaneous literary figures
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- Iseult
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