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Keats supernatural and reality vs. dreams - Coggle Diagram
Keats supernatural and reality vs. dreams
La Belle Dame Sans Merci
"her eyes were wild"
"long hair, light foot"
"a faery's song"
"language strange"
"warning gaped wide"
"I sojourn here"
All three of his gifts are circular, used to enclose the woman as if the man is trying to keep her – and perhaps keep her under control.
a mere piece of pseudo-medieval escapism, summoning the world of beautiful but bewitched women
Isabella
"soiled glove"
Confusion of senses ‘vision’ and ‘music’- Synesthesia
“Her tears kept ever wet”
“She withers like a palm cut by an Indian for its juicy balm”
“Little sounds of life are around me knelling”
“Stinging whip- with hollow eyes”
"dream"/ "weep"
the poem refuses the mourn- the digging up of the corpse and the decpaitation- read as a surrealistically macabre child birth scene
the dependent male lover coming back to life through the power of the primal and much stronger female body.
women are fated to be silenced men are doomed to desturction yet both will be reborn by the inexorable cycle of life and growth
The Eve of St Agnes
“She danced along with vague”
"ivory headed wand"
“Thou canst not surely be the same that thou didst seem”
“In pallid moonshine died”
‘perfume light’
‘Dreams awake’
“The dying tone”
“Never could redeem [...] his lady’s eyes”-
“The vision of her sleep- there was a painful change”
’Sharp sleet’
“Sleeping dragons”
"like phantoms"
Porphyro defies winter by crossing the moors and defies Madeline's family by entering the party during an implacable feud
major threats to the lovers are connected with transaction between our world, romance and Faery- the last to ignore by realist readers
"romance" is an area of human activity in which every element is potentially meangiful- "faery" is the realm of magic sensed or imagined beyond romance
Lamia