Essays Tagged: "La Belle Dame Sans Merci"
"Ode to a Nightingale" and "To Autumn" by John Keats.
nticism is a movement in literature that came as a result of a revolt against the previous period "Classicism". John Keats was an English poet who became one of the most important Romantic poets. Will ... and legends, supernatural being, and nature.Keats led a very tragic life. His poems can often be related back to his bitter and sad experiences in life. Many of the ideas in Keats's works are quintes ...
Subjects: Literature Research Papers > European Literature
"The excess in Keats' work detracts from the effectiveness of his ideas.
a participant in, rather than a spectator of his poetry, meant that he incorporated excess into the language, imagery and techniques he used, in a bid to achieve this.The effect of the excess in his l ... been possible if the reader had physically experienced those events themselves. It was this use of language that led to some of the criticism from those around him. In a letter to John Murray on the ...
Subjects: Literature Research Papers > European Literature > Poetry
John Keats - Selected Poems - Revision Notes
ohn Keats - Selected Poems - Revision NotesTo AutumnOde celebrates the perfection of natural beauty.Language - "Seasons of mist" = sibilance. Poem sensuous like description of Madeline's room in St Ag ... innowing wind". "Winnowing wind" = Alliteration, assonance, some degree of onomatopeia. "Full grown lambs loud bleat from hilly bown" = assonance.Themes - Simple. Daily observation & appreciation. ...
Subjects: Literature Research Papers > North American > Poetry
Analyse the Different Forms of Power Presented in "My Last Duchess", "A Woman to Her Lover" and "La Belle Dame Sans Merci"
Amongst the three love poems examined in this essay, the theme of male or female power in relationships pervades throughout. The views of the speakers are expressed and defined through literar ... techniques. This gives the reader an insight into the speaker's problems and dissatisfaction of a relationship, due to an imbalance of power. However there are dissimilarities between the poems - for ...
Subjects: Literature Research Papers > European Literature
'"La Belle Dame Sans Merci" by John Keats is a puzzling, haunting poem' how far do you agree with this view?'
"La Belle Dame Sans Merci" translates to 'the beautiful woman has no mercy'. This is not the first ti ... it in "The Eve of St Agnes", another romantic poem rich "negative capability". It is as if these syllables have continued to haunt him; he has expressed this questioning in "La Belle Dame Sans Merci" ... s Merci" by presenting us with the set for a story, but no conclusion or closure. Initially this ballad looks quite simplistic, the structure of the poem being a ballad looks very different from Keats ...
Subjects: Literature Research Papers
John Clare - First Love English Literary essay on love poetry
hat the poem had to convey: first love. There is nothing sweeter, more captivating than that first glance at love. It had to display the awkward feelings of love, the power of looking at each other, a ... y and great metaphors but they don't have a familiar feeling. Then I found it, First Love, by John Clare. It had all the elements I wanted. Love poetry has never been my favourite type of poetry but F ...
Subjects: Literature Research Papers > European Literature > Poetry
~Compare Keats to two other pre-war poems. Comment on love, style and form~
In comparing Keats 'La Belle Dame Sans Merci' to 'First Love' you can see many similarities. Both were written in the 17 ... and everything is portrayed as beautiful and natural, with knights of shining armour. A strong similarity is the description of the beauty of the women. Both poets compare the cheeks to a flower. In ... rci', 'on thy cheeks a fading rose' and in 'First Love' her face bloomed 'like a sweet flower'. Similarly, both poems are written in ballad form and told as a story, very different to the 15th century ...
Subjects: Literature Research Papers > European Literature > Poetry
Keats - Ode To Melancholy
Keats's conception of "Melancholy" is that we as humans cannot truly feel joy, unless we have felt true sorrow first. W ... joy, unless we have felt true sorrow first. We find this ideal in several of his works; the two I plan to focus on are "Ode to Melancholy" and "La Belle Dame sans Merci: A Ballad". In his ... joy, knowing that in the end there shall be sorrow.Again, Keats has clearly shown us his view on "Melancholy" as being simply a curve in life's cycle of joy and sorrow. That everyone who lives m ...
Subjects: Literature Research Papers
A Close Reading
In John Keats's ballad "La Belle Dame sans Merci" the author writes of a world-weary knight-at-arms standing by a withe ... one of high enthusiasm, almost giddiness, until after the climax, when the poem takes a dark turn. "La Belle Dame sans Merci" proves that beauty is in the eye of the beholder, and that unrequited love ... le that makes the poem seem like a story: he starts with one speaker, a traveler who is roaming the land and happens upon a figure "Alone and palely loitering," which I took to mean the knight is by h ...
Subjects: Literature Research Papers > European Literature > Poetry