Read the excerpt from "morte d'arthur” by alfred, lord tennyson. so like a shatter’d column lay the king; not like that arthur who, with lance in rest, from spur to plume a star of tournament, shot thro’ the lists at camelot, and charged before the eyes of ladies and of kings. the simile in the first line convey to the reader the identities of the kings and ladies. the current state of the king. the appearance of the building. the purpose of the tournament.

the current state of the king.

The first simile in the poem is the one that compares a king to a shattered column. This is a reference to the strength that the king possessed in the past and the sad state he finds himself in now. Although it is still clear how powerful he was, he is also clearly broken, and he is not the star of the tournament anymore. Therefore, the simile describes the current state of the king.

kellan is struggling with the amount of work he has to do

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