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
- Tragic protagonists/ victims
- Lorenzo
- Isabella
- Tragic protagonists/ victims
- Lorenzo
- The brothers
- Only explicit antagonists in Keats
- Isabella
- 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
- Couldn't fill his shoes? Felt as though he had failed.
- 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.
- Labels her to tragic victim, supporting female passivity.
- "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
- Narrative interjection
- Repetition of "will die" shows the vehemance of tragic waste and sadness
- "poor simple Isabella"
- 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
- " his eyes were wild juxtaposes to his "palmers eyes" portraying the gloom of death.
- "sweet Isabella will die"
- Keats narrative interjection projects pathos through the modal verb of 'will' that reinforces the tragedy.
- "they could not"
- 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
- "I will drinks her tears"
- 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.
- "men of cruel clay"/ "anzestral merchandise"
- Lorenzo's ghost
- "Lorenzo stood and wept"/ His eyes were wild
- The imagery of decay in his "wild eyes juxtaposes to palmers eye...
- "Lorenzo stood and wept"/ His eyes were wild
- 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?
- "downy nest"/ "as bird on wing to breast its eggs again"
- Characters
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