(Keats) Women
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- Created on: 21-03-19 10:04
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- Women
- La Belle Dame
- 'I shut her wild wild eyes'
- Wants to tame/understand women (never settled down to marry)
- Repetition of 'wild' suggests infatuation (trance-like)
- Eyes are seen as windows to the soul
- Use of pronouns creates a possessive effect (paired with decisive 'shut') POWER PLAY
- 'language strange' + 'starved lips'
- Lack of dialogue (only hints at speech) creates a vague effect
- Miscommunication (Keats laments over promises never made)
- Keats' relationship with Fanny Brawne never became a reality
- Possibly just a sexual/ verbal assault on a female whose response is left out
- Menand: 'A horror of female sexuality'
- Miscommunication (Keats laments over promises never made)
- Sibilance creates a slipping effect (emphasises dream-setting)
- Victorians were especially interested in the psychology of dreams
- Sigmund Freud's Interpretation of Dreams was published in 1899
- Victorians were especially interested in the psychology of dreams
- Lack of dialogue (only hints at speech) creates a vague effect
- 'I shut her wild wild eyes'
- Ode to Psyche
- 'A casement ope at night'
- Unable to have the reality so he traps the ideal form of female love in his imagination
- Fears he will not be able to experience the world in time (experience of death)
- Keats dies of TB in Rome at the age of 25 in 1821
- John Jones: incapable of 'jostling in the real world'
- 'Beauty is truth'
- Unable to have the reality so he traps the ideal form of female love in his imagination
- 'forest' to 'gardener'
- Wants to tame/understand women (never settled down to marry)
- Keats wants to lure her into a managed/ controlled environment
- A forest is typically a symbol of the subconscious
- Greek Myth: ideal woman who fights for love (unlike Fanny)
- Desire to create poetry in a world devoid of mythic grandeur
- 'A casement ope at night'
- St Agnes
- 'silken hushed and chaste'
- Women likened to materialistic qualities (objectified/ shallow)
- Only sees outward beauty
- Keats claims he would not spend 'anytime with ladies unless they are handsome'
- Only sees outward beauty
- Sensuous sibilance imitates the rustle of silk (creates a claustrophobic effect)
- Keats to Fanny - you are 'cruel to have so entrammelledme, so destroyed my freedom'
- Women likened to materialistic qualities (objectified/ shallow)
- 'tongueless nightingale should swell her throat in vain'
- Women are voiceless in Keat's poetry (submissive ideal)
- Sibilance also emphasises inability (OR Keats unconsciously silencing women in poetry)
- Reference to Philomel (***** by barbarous king & tongue removed)
- Women are voiceless in Keat's poetry (submissive ideal)
- 'A casement high'
- Godly status + angelic quality (unreachable e.g. Fanny)
- Also an image of entrapment
- 'A casement ope at night'
- Unable to have the reality so he traps the ideal form of female love in his imagination
- Fears he will not be able to experience the world in time (experience of death)
- Keats dies of TB in Rome at the age of 25 in 1821
- John Jones: incapable of 'jostling in the real world'
- 'Beauty is truth'
- Unable to have the reality so he traps the ideal form of female love in his imagination
- 'silken hushed and chaste'
- Isabella
- 'there is richest juice in poison flowers'
- Romanticism (Keats also studied to become an apothecary)
- Suggests an overload of senses (passion leads to ones downfall)
- Thomas Wright: 'the union of joy and pain'
- Emphasises swift Summer romance ('wintry cold...to summer clime!')
- Almost vain (suggesting lovers control the seasons)
- Keats described it as 'too smokeable'
- 'there is richest juice in poison flowers'
- La Belle Dame
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