Keats poetry
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- Created on: 14-05-13 11:33
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- Keats poetry
- Lamia
- structure
- frame story outlines the theme/moral message from Keats
- 'nor grew they pale, as moral lovers do'
- enjambment
- frame story outlines the theme/moral message from Keats
- form
- heroic couplets + iambic pentameter
- iambic = an unstressed syllable followed by a stressed syllable - pentameter indicates that a line has five of these couples
- without the flowing syllable's the poem would be stilted/unsettled and distract from the story
- epic poem
- long narrative poem
- heroic couplets + iambic pentameter
- language
- vivid/evocative description - positive + negative at the same time = distorted/confusing
- e.g. 'eclips'd her crescents and lick'd up her stars'
- mentions magic/illusions often
- e.g in wedding scene: 'haunting music...faery-roof...charm might fade...lucid...fuming...smoke'
- reminds us that it is all an illusion - and its fragile = appolonious can easily shatter it (e.g. smoke = not a permanent state)
- setting
- mythological
- = plots time and theme + gives way to frame story and idea of moral vs immortal love
- mythological
- setting
- reminds us that it is all an illusion - and its fragile = appolonious can easily shatter it (e.g. smoke = not a permanent state)
- e.g in wedding scene: 'haunting music...faery-roof...charm might fade...lucid...fuming...smoke'
- vivid/evocative description - positive + negative at the same time = distorted/confusing
- setting
- mythological
- = plots time and theme + gives way to frame story and idea of moral vs immortal love
- mythological
- voice
- omniscient judgmental narrator
- informal storyteller : 'but ah' , 'we shall see'
- omniscient judgmental narrator
- structure
- La Belle Dame Sans Merci
- structure
- shortened 4th line = sense of intrigue/ mystery because we aren't given all the information
- rhythm and pace is repetitive = men keep repeating this cycle of falling in love
- form
- ballad = delivers moral message
- also ballad's are typically love poems = highlights the fact that this isn't = makes us question the love/infatuation
- ballad = delivers moral message
- language
- use of archaic language = authenticity of medieval setting
- metaphor - 'Lilly on thy brow'
- assonance - adds haunting sound quality
- repetition of 'faery' and 'elfin' = mystical
- emotive lang: 'wild..lulled...wept...horrid waning'
- setting
- 'harvest's done' = winter
- why is he there?
- desolate frigid landscape = knights mental state
- medieval era suggests myth/legend
- = highlights the moral message
- 'harvest's done' = winter
- voice
- unknown (reliable?) narrator
- present tense + 1st person
- without the narrator we wouldn't question the knights story
- knights story told through direct speech
- unreliable, 1st person, past tense
- context
- expression of guilt over leaving Fanny Brawne
- expresses idea that perfect love cannot coexist with the outside world
- e.g. death /illness forcing him to leave F.B
- knight's story = men falling in love (cant cope - men in his dream are man who have fallen in love and it has ruined them)
- structure
- The Eve of St. Agnes
- Structure
- switches between characters
- each stanza has a clear image = tableau effect
- eve = confined to one night = sense of pace/movement
- form
- regular stanzas/consistent meter + rhyme scheme = no one stanza is more important than another
- Language
- lots of description = pictorial effect
- each stanza has a clear image = tableau effect
- e.g. 'silver snarling trumpets
- adjectives, alliteration, syballance
- synaesthesia - describing visual with physical
- e.g. 'languid moon
- lots of description = pictorial effect
- setting
- time setting
- one night = confined = tension/pace/movement
- The eve of st Agnes = ritual = events couldn't happen any other night
- winter - pathetic fallacy - e.g. sharp sleet against the window panes'
- time setting
- voice
- omniscient narrator = all the information
- stays in the castle after M+P leave and say the story happened 'long ago
- = sense of fable type story = highlights the moral message
- Structure
- Lamia
- It keeps the poem moving forward and is often used to soften a rhyme
- enjambment
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