The Love Potion
Love Potion Number Nine? Not quite: Tristan and Yseut don't go around kissing everything in sight. They just go around kissing each other.Either way, the love potion is the most famous aspect of th...
The Grave Trees
So, what on earth is a grave tree? If you guessed a tree that grows on a grave, you're right. After Mark buries Tristan and Yseut's bodies in a Cornish chapel, two trees with intertwining branches...
Love as Wound or Madness
When Tristan gets all emo and starts lamenting all he is suffering because of his love for Yseut, he asks why love "wounds" him (18.152). He also complains that he is in "great agitation at every m...
Love
Sometimes it just seems like the person you're into could ask for anything, and you'd give it. You feel almost like a vassal or servant to someone who has power over you because you're just so in l...