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In Merlin, Edwin Arlington Robinson delves in to the imagination and hearts of an gallery of heroes from the storyplot Camelot: Gawaine, Bedivere, Lamorak; Arthur himself; his fool, Sir Dagonet; and most notably, Merlin himself and the woman he loves, Vivian. He places the action at the moment when Guinevere and Lancelot have fled to Joyeux Gard, and Arthur, goaded on by Modred and Gawaine, is reluctantly setting up an military to make battle on them. It is at this time that he needs the advice and support of his old mentor, Merlin, more than ever before in his reign and his life, but it is at just this vital time that Merlin has discovered that the love of Vivian is more important to him than kings, wars, knights, or Camelot itself. Age group has finally swept up to Merlin, and he recognizes he cannot give what Arthur needs to save and bring back Camelot. Robinson's emphasis throughout is on figure. He will not give us jousts and quests. Alternatively, he gives us the peaceful thoughts and interactions that flip the kingdom toward the ultimate battle, as each figure tries to balance old loyalties, old dreams, old desires and anxieties against new realities and new imperatives. Against that backdrop, the sadness that is Merlin performs from the quick playfulness and anticipation of Vivian, going out of us with a new and remarkably coming in contact with view of the previous days of Camelot.
