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The Eve of St Agnes
The following resources may be useful in your development of an interpretation and analysis of this poem.


 * http://www.cc.gatech.edu/~vempala/family/Keats.html
 * http://www.victorianweb.org/painting/prb/ringel12.html
 * http://academic.brooklyn.cuny.edu/english/melani/cs6/st_agnes.html

The conclusion that the Literature class came to about who St Agnes is, is as follows: (copied straight from the whiteboard)
 * At the age of 12 she was ordered to lose her virginity by rape because she refused to marry the son of the man and he was unable to kill her because she was a virgin.
 * On her feast day two lambs are blessed by the Pope
 * She is the Saint of chastity, virgins and rape victims
 * She was killed by having her head chopped off
 * There is a lamb in every portrait of her because her name means "lamb" in latin
 * There are many superstitions stating she could not die
 * Her bones are conserved in her church
 * She is from Rome
 * She died in her 13th year 303ad
 * She was born in 291ad