Compare And Contrast The Connection Between The Wilderness And The Underworld

There is an evident connection between the wilderness and the underworld. The moment that breeches the connect is, "Through wood and over moorland bleak- he now the wilderness doth seek, and nothing finds to make him glad, but ever liveth lone and sad." This moment is when the King had to leave the town although he did not want to. This establishes a connection with the underworld because just as it sounds the underworld is not a joyful place where as the King is not in a joyful emotional place. The underworld can be viewed as the Heavens in Sir Orfeo, "Alas!' said he, 'unhappy day! Why will not now my death me slay? Alas! unhappy man, ah why may I not, seeing her, now die?" The issue that lay connected between the wilderness and the underworld