Palely loitering among poets and hacks.(The Home Forum)

The Christian Science Monitor | December 31, 1999 | Copyright

O, what can ail thee, knight-at-arms,

Alone and palely loitering?...

(from 'La Belle Dame Sans Merci')

This forlorn interrogation by John Keats has always interested me. Not because of what happened to the poor knight, but for the adverbial parsing of pale. I've often tried to do something in a pale manner, but without much success.

Loitering, for instance. Try as I have, my loitering is always brisk and colorful, and folks always say, "But my word! Old fellow! How resplendent you loiter todayly!"

True, Keats was shooting for ...

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