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Answer:Lochinvar is a brave knight who arrives unannounced at the bridal feast of Ellen, his beloved, who is about to be married to “a laggard in love and a dastard in war.” Lochinvar claims one dance with the bride and dances her out the door, swooping her up onto his horse, and they ride off together into the unknown.
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Lochinvar is a brave young knight who sets out from West Scotland to Netherby Hall where the wedding of his beloved Ellen is about to take place. He has the best horse in the country, is faithful in love, fearless in war and except his good broadsword he has no weapons. He is matchless among knights; he rides all unarmed and all alone. On his way he encounters brakes, stones and the Eske River. However, he does not stay for brake or stop for stone, and he swims across the Eske River at a place where there are no shallow parts which can be crossed easily. However, he arrives late at Netherby Hall since the bride has already given her consent.
She is being given in marriage to a bridegroom who is described as a laggard in love and a dastard in war. When Lochinvar boldly breaks into the Netherby Hall unannounced, there are bridesmen, kinsmen and brothers among the guests at the bridal. The cowardly bridegroom utters not a word. With his hand on his sword, the bride’s father breaches to his defence, asking Lochinvar if he has come there in peace or war or to dance at their bridal feast. Lochinvar quietly states he has long wooed Ellen, but since his suit has been denied, his love has died out like the falling tide of Solway. Hence he has come with his lost love to dance but one measure and drink one cup of wine. He even boasts that there are many lovelier maidens in Scotland glad to be his bride. The reply is a deliberate ploy by Lochinvar to trick the bride’s family into believing that he has no hidden motives so that he can abduct her without bloodshed. But his reply seems to have wounded Ellen. He rubs insult to injury when after drinking from it he throws down the goblet she has kissed for him. She is obviously upset as she looks up to sigh and looks down to blush.
However, he reassures her of his love when he takes her soft hand and says that they shall tread a measure. As they dance, the stateliness of his form and the loveliness of her face impress the guests. They feel that the Netherby Hall is lucky to have witnessed such a graceful dance. Ellen’s mother frets, her father fumes and the bridegroom stands helplessly dangling his bonnet and plume. This reference to ‘dangling’ probably suggests that he will be helpless and inactive in married life as well. The bride-maidens whisper that it would have been much better to have matched their Ellen with young Lochinvar. During the dance, as Lochinvar and Ellen reach the hall door, the An Alternate Reading
A counter reading of the poem suggests that the bridegroom is not so much of a “laggard in love and a dastard in war” as the poem compels us to believe initially. During the Middle Ages, women were often considered as having no rights of their own. Hence the options before Ellen now are limited. She has to belong either to Lochinvar or to the bridegroom. She doesn’t have the freedom to reject both of them. Nor can she choose both. Thus, in a different sense, the bridegroom's behaviour and demeanour turn chivalric and noble. If he is passive, it is because he respects Ellen’s wish to be with her true love. His sacrifice thus becomes the very epitome of gentlemanly behaviour and he becomes a paragon of chivalry. He would have been cowardly only if Ellen had been truly in love with him and not Lochinvar. In that scenario, their elopement would have become a matter of kidnap. However, that isn’t the case in the poem. Evidently, Ellen loves Lochinvar and she wilfully elopes with him.
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