JOHN KEATS: Poems Read this extract from The Eve of St Agnes, and then answer the question that follows it. 39 'Hark! 'tis an elfin-storm from faery land, Of haggard seeming, but a boon indeed: Arise - arise! the morning is at hand; – The bloated wassaillers will never heed: Let us away, my love, with happy speed; 5 There are no ears to hear, or eyes to see, Drown'd all in Rhenish and the sleepy mead: Awake! arise! my love, and fearless be, For o'er the southern moors I have a home for thee.' 40 She hurried at his words, beset with fears, For there were sleeping dragons all around, At glaring watch, perhaps, with ready spears – Down the wide stairs a darkling way they found. – In all the house was heard no human sound. A chain-droop'd lamp was flickering by each door; The arras, rich with horseman, hawk, and hound, Flutter'd in the besieging wind's uproar; And the long carpets rose along the gusty floor. 10 15 41 They glide, like phantoms, into the wide hall; Like phantoms, to the iron porch, they glide; 20 Where lay the Porter, in uneasy sprawl, With a huge empty flaggon by his side: The wakeful bloodhound rose, and shook his hide, But his sagacious eye an inmate owns: By one, and one, the bolts full easy slide: – 25 The chains lie silent on the footworn stones; – The key turns, and the door upon its hinges groans. 42 And they are gone: ay, ages long ago These lovers fled away into the storm. That night the Baron dreamt of many a woe, And all his warrior-guests, with shade and form Of witch, and demon, and large coffin-worm, Were long be-nightmar’d. Angela the old Died palsy-twitch'd, with meagre face deform; The Beadsman, after thousand aves told, For aye unsought for slept among his ashes cold. 30 35 Explore in this extract how Keats strikingly conveys the atmosphere in the castle as the lovers make their escape.