Isabella

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  • Created on: 22-05-21 16:43
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  • Isabella/ Pot of basil
    • Characters
      • Isabella
        • Lorenzo
          • Tragic protagonists/ victims
            • Isabella
              • Lorenzo
                • Tragic protagonists/ victims
        • The brothers
          • Only explicit antagonists in Keats
      • Context
        • Keats described this poem as 'Weak sided' and 'mawkish
        • Inspired fro Boccaccio's Decameron
          • Couldn't fill his shoes? Felt as though he had failed.
            • Keats described this poem as 'Weak sided' and 'mawkish
        • The conspicuous theme of impending death, the foreshadowing of inevitability perhaps link to Keats experience with TB
      • Isabella Quotes
        • "poor simple Isabella"
          • Labels her to tragic victim, supporting female passivity.
            • Connotations of pity and sympathy.
        • "she had died in drowsy"
          • Foreshadowing Isabella's tragic fate
        • "sweet Isabella will die"
          • Repetition of "will die" shows the vehemance of tragic waste and sadness
            • Narrative interjection
              • Modal verb "will" suggests the inevitability of their courtly love
      • Lorenzo+ Isabella quotes
        • "they could not"
          • Anaphora providing the empathise their passionate yet vulnerable love
        • "Their love grew tenderer/ and tenderer still"
          • Repetition of tenderer maybe empathises the tragic vulnerability they behold
        • "Lorenzo stood, and wept/ his eyes were wild"
          • " his eyes were wild juxtaposes to his "palmers eyes" portraying the gloom of death.
            • Keats alluding his thanatophobia due to tuberculosis
        • "sweet Isabella will die"
          • Keats narrative interjection projects pathos through the modal verb of 'will' that reinforces the tragedy.
      • Foreshadowing
        • "I will drinks her tears"
          • Dark foreshadowing of Lorenzo's tragic fate
        • "but I cannot live another night"
          • Foreshadows Lorenzo's fate, empathising through the caesura the danger and pathos
        • "twin roses by zephyr blown apart"
          • Foreshadows the fate while also empathising the vulnerability of their relationship represented through the mythological imagery of zephyr (god of winds
      • Capitalism (brothers)
        • "men of cruel clay"/ "anzestral merchandise"
          • Men of cruel clay chremamorphism thats acts as a symbol of capitalism and corrupt chain of being
        • "hungry shark"
          • Anthropomorphism illustrates the predatory nature of 19th century
        • "hot Egypt's pest"
          • Metaphor that links to God plaguing Egypt with locusts for doing 'wrong'
        • "brothers bloody knife/murdered man"
          • Alliteration here empathising the cruelty and antagonistic dynamic.
      • Lorenzo's ghost
        • "Lorenzo stood and wept"/ His eyes were wild
          • The imagery of decay in his "wild eyes juxtaposes to palmers eye...
      • The pot of basil
        • "downy nest"/ "as bird on wing to breast its eggs again"
          • Isabella maternal victim- reinforces Keats portrayal of female passivity. Second quote: simile
        • "she forgot the stars, the moon, and the sun"
          • Triplet that shows pathos and the tragic vulnerability Isabella is to tragic fate
        • "thick and green and beautiful it grew
          • Triplet that shows death is beautiful? Yet the irony of the bloom of basil, not Isabella and Lorenzo
        • "vile and green with livid spot"
          • The brothers perception of the basil through the triplet. Contrasting views of beauty.. negative capability?

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