Romantic tragedy in ARWAV, The Garden of Love and La Belle Dame sans Merci. A Ballad
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- Authors presentation of romantic tragedies
- A Room with a View
- Cecil Vyse
- "He's clever, he's rich, he's well connected"
- No loving attributes mentioned
- "He's well connected" repeated, emphasises how Edwardian societies cared more about their social class than true love
- 'Cecil made one talk in his way, instead of letting one talk in one's own way'
- Shows he's controlling, foreshadows how he's going to treat Lucy
- Lucy nearly marries Cecil but breaks off their engagement at the last minute.
- "You're tired Lucy"
- Cecil continues his pattern of patronising sexism, he thinks Lucy's tired, she doesn't know what's best
- "But I love you, and i did think you loved me!"
- Cecil confused, doesn't know what has changed, he doesn't realise Lucy's changed.
- "I thought I did at first"
- Lucy's comments here may come across as harsh and the reader may feel sympathy towards Cecil
- "It is a question between ideals, yours and mine.... yours are nobler. I was bound up in the old vicious notions and all the time you were splendid and new"
- Cecil finally understands Lucy, unfortunately its too little too late.
- "She had counted on his being petty"
- Shows that Lucy didn't really know Cecil either
- Cecil capable of change, however Lucy's heart belongs to another, he's caught in a cruel love triangle.
- "It is a question between ideals, yours and mine.... yours are nobler. I was bound up in the old vicious notions and all the time you were splendid and new"
- Lucy's comments here may come across as harsh and the reader may feel sympathy towards Cecil
- "I thought I did at first"
- Cecil confused, doesn't know what has changed, he doesn't realise Lucy's changed.
- "You're tired Lucy"
- "He's clever, he's rich, he's well connected"
- Cecil Vyse
- The Garden of Love
- Metaphor for sexual pleasure?
- "Saw what i never had seen"
- He's got experience now, he's seeing new things
- "A chapel was built in the midst"
- Church isn't natural, it's unnatural to obey God
- "Thou shalt not writ over the door"
- Alludes to the 10 commandment and symbolises rules and restrictions of the church
- "So i turned to the Garden of Love That so many sweet flowers bore"
- 'Sweet flowers' represents what man naturally enjoys in life (sex)
- "And i saw it was filled with graves, And tomb-stones where flowers should be, And priests in black gowns were walking their rounds, And binding with briars my joys and desires."
- Changed from freedom to death
- 'Sweet flowers' represents what man naturally enjoys in life (sex)
- "And i saw it was filled with graves, And tomb-stones where flowers should be, And priests in black gowns were walking their rounds, And binding with briars my joys and desires."
- Changed from freedom to death
- Anaphora emphasises sense of feeling overwhelmed.
- Restricting his joys and desires
- Links to Jesus' death. If he speaks his thoughts, he'll be killed
- Church represents a prison, the priests are the wardens, 10 commandment are the rules of the prison, the "Gates of this chapel were shut"
- Semantic field about how religion can restrict passion between two lovers
- Church isn't natural, it's unnatural to obey God
- Alludes to the 10 commandment and symbolises rules and restrictions of the church
- Semantic field about how religion can restrict passion between two lovers
- Changed from freedom to death
- "And i saw it was filled with graves, And tomb-stones where flowers should be, And priests in black gowns were walking their rounds, And binding with briars my joys and desires."
- 'Sweet flowers' represents what man naturally enjoys in life (sex)
- Anaphora emphasises sense of feeling overwhelmed.
- Restricting his joys and desires
- Links to Jesus' death. If he speaks his thoughts, he'll be killed
- Church represents a prison, the priests are the wardens, 10 commandment are the rules of the prison, the "Gates of this chapel were shut"
- Semantic field about how religion can restrict passion between two lovers
- Semantic field about how religion can restrict passion between two lovers
- Changed from freedom to death
- "And i saw it was filled with graves, And tomb-stones where flowers should be, And priests in black gowns were walking their rounds, And binding with briars my joys and desires."
- 'Sweet flowers' represents what man naturally enjoys in life (sex)
- La Belle Dame sans Merci. A Ballad
- "haggard and so woe-begone"
- Sick and depressed
- "Harvest's done"
- Autumn, when things die. Pathetic fallacy, creates a dull atmosphere and foreshadows future events
- "I see a lilly on thy brow"
- Symbol of death
- Autumn, when things die. Pathetic fallacy, creates a dull atmosphere and foreshadows future events
- "I see a lilly on thy brow"
- Symbol of death
- "And on thy cheeks a fading rose, Fast withereth too
- "And honey wild and manna-dew"
- Links to the idea that the knight is enslaved by the lady, reinforced by the 'honey' which was a quality promised to the Jews
- "Though the sedge is withered from the lake, And no birds sing"
- Repetition from the 1st stanza but it's spoken by a different voice
- 'no bird sing' death, sadness, unnatural and evil
- "Though the sedge is withered from the lake, And no birds sing"
- Links to the idea that the knight is enslaved by the lady, reinforced by the 'honey' which was a quality promised to the Jews
- Symbol of death
- "I see a lilly on thy brow"
- "And on thy cheeks a fading rose, Fast withereth too
- "And honey wild and manna-dew"
- Links to the idea that the knight is enslaved by the lady, reinforced by the 'honey' which was a quality promised to the Jews
- "Though the sedge is withered from the lake, And no birds sing"
- Repetition from the 1st stanza but it's spoken by a different voice
- 'no bird sing' death, sadness, unnatural and evil
- "Though the sedge is withered from the lake, And no birds sing"
- Links to the idea that the knight is enslaved by the lady, reinforced by the 'honey' which was a quality promised to the Jews
- Autumn, when things die. Pathetic fallacy, creates a dull atmosphere and foreshadows future events
- Symbol of death
- "I see a lilly on thy brow"
- Autumn, when things die. Pathetic fallacy, creates a dull atmosphere and foreshadows future events
- 4th stanza onwards, there's a shift in voice, the knight tells the tale
- "Her foot was light, And her eyes were wild"
- Implies she's sneaky, unpredictable and possibly supernatural
- 'Wild eyes', promise of wild sex?
- "She looked at me as she did love and made sweet moan"
- Suggests an ****** encounter
- "She looked at me as she did love and made sweet moan"
- "Her foot was light, And her eyes were wild"
- "haggard and so woe-begone"
- A Room with a View
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