1. switches between characters, 2. each stanza has clear image =story board effect
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form of st.a
Regular stanzas, consistent meter and rhyme scheme = no one stanza is more important than another, 2. Spenserian stanzas = fixed = urgency/pace
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voice of st.a
omnicient narrator = all the info/full story + they stay in the castle after the couple leave + say the story happened long ago
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language of st.a
lots of adjectives/sybilance and alliteration = pictorial effect: 'silver snarling trumpets', 2. Synaethesia: 'languid moon'
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setting of st.a
time setting = one night = confined, 2. winter - pathetic fallacy, eve of st.a = ritual = events
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context of st.a
2 years before death, reflects patriarchal ideas, importance of virtue, chastity and faith, st.a is saint of chastity etc
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structure of la belle dame
narrator finds knight, knight tells story, ends with him having haunting dream, wakes up and wanders until found
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form of la belle dame
ballad - moral message, rhythm and pace = repetitive = men keep repeating the cycle, shortened 4th line = mystery
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voice of la belle dame
unknown (reliable?) narrator, 1st person, without the narrator we wouldn't question the knights story, knights story told through direct speech, unreliable, 1st p, past tense
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setting of la belle dame
'harvests done' = winter, desolate/frigid landscape = knights mental state, medieval time set. = moral msg given through ballad like old folklore
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language in la belle dame
archaic lang = authenticty of med. setting, assonance = haunting sound quality, repetition of 'faery', emotive lang: 'wild' 'lulled' 'horrid waning'
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context of la belle dame
expression of guilt over leaving F.B., expresses idea that perfect love + outside world cannot co-exist, knights story = men falling in love + dont know what to do
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structure of Lamia
split into 5 parts: 1.frame story, 2. transformation, 3. 'love in a hut', 4.marriage, 5. truth revealed + death
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form of Lamia
heroic couplets + iambic pentameter, lots of enjambment and couplets overrun rhyme scheme =maintains continual motion + progression to end, epic poem
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context of lamia
keats was very jealous - its about deception and trust = cynical narrator, also that death gets in the way of love - he had to leave FB because of illness
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what are the allegorical meanings in Lamia
d
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language in Lamia
vivid description - positive and negative at the same time = distorted/confusing eg. eclipsed her crescents. and lick'd up her stars'
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setting of lamia
mythological,- plots time and theme + gives way to frame story + idea of mortal love not lasting
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voice of lamia
omniscient judgmental + cynical narrator
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Regular stanzas, consistent meter and rhyme scheme = no one stanza is more important than another, 2. Spenserian stanzas = fixed = urgency/pace
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