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La Belle Dame Sans Merci - John Keats
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A-Level English literature (Poetry) Mind Map on La Belle Dame Sans Merci - John Keats, created by Aniqa Khatri on 19/05/2016.
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La Belle Dame Sans Merci - John Keats
References
The Garden of Love
She walks in beauty
Form and Structure
Compressed lines using three tetrameters followed by a final, truncated line of only four or five syllables
This hastens the poem's rhythm
Uses quatrains of alternating tetrameters and trimeters
This meter uses early minstrel forms to create a rolling, singsong pace
The question and answer from could be seen to reflect early folk Ballads
Majority of poem focuses on the knights responses to these questions
Language Analysis, Techniques and Imagery
O what can ail thee, knight at arms
Medieval settiing
'The sledge has withered from the lake/And no birds sing'
Death imagery, gives the poem a tragic tone
'So haggard and so woe-begone'
Knight is ill and depressed
'Woe begone adds to the medieval atmosphere of the poem
Death Imagery
'Harvest is done'
Shows it is Autumn- often associated with death
fading rose
Fding suggests illness
'I see a Lilly on thy brow'
'Death-pale
'She looked at me as she did love'/ And made sweet moan
Sexual euphamism
'Light of foot'
unpredicatable
Graceful and quick
Supernatural imagery
'faerys song
'hair was long'
Associated with temptresses
'Manna dew'
'wild'
not to be trusted - nymph like
Themes
Women and femininity
The supernatural
Love
Abandonment
Typicality of Love Poetry
Romantic poet so typical conventions of Romatics Poetry
Nature Imagery
speaks for the marginalised
The Supernatural
Types of Love explored
Obsessive love
Pastoral love
Abandoned love
One sided love
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