LBDSM
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- Created on: 23-11-20 21:13
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- La Belle Dame
- A03
- Keats wrote this poem in 1819 after falling in love with Brawne
- explains romance and sensuality of poem
- Brawne known to be flirty and drew male attention- 'pale warriors' might reflect other victims
- Keats wrote this poem in 1819 after falling in love with Brawne
- A01
- Physical or material love is temporary
- Women are dangerous and seductive, men are weakened by them
- Love is damaging
- AO2
- Language, Form and Structure
- Ballard- idea of folktore, often used for myths and fairytales
- Sensual poet- portrays ideas of 'negative capability' across poem
- Repetition of 'pale'- 'paley loitering, 'death pale' and 'pale warriors'
- Spiritual fairy: 'faery's song', 'a farery child'
- Reinforces idea of dream vs reality
- Spiritual fairy: 'faery's song', 'a farery child'
- Knight is narrator- only him and Keats know true pain
- Quotations
- 'Lily on thy brow
- 'On thy cheek a fading rose'
- 'Alone and paley loitering'
- 'On the cold hill's side'
- 'No birds sing'
- Sure in language strange she said 'I love thee true'"
- "Pale kings and princes too, pale warriors, death-pale were they all; they cried - 'la belle dame sans merci hath thee in thrall!"
- 'And there I shut her wild, wild eyes with kisses four'
- 'sedge has withered from the lake'
- Language, Form and Structure
- A04
- Loss of identity
- Fate
- Villian
- Tragic hero and protagonist
- A05
- Femme Ftale' -'lulled him asleep' - knight victim?
- Is faery true victim because he just decided to keep her as his lover
- A03
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