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Setting in La Belle Dame Sans Merci - Coggle Diagram
Setting in La Belle Dame Sans Merci
"on the cold- hill side"
hill represents the tragic descent of the knight
dead and dying landscape
repeated throughout poem- reiterates the finality of his fate
cold= loss os passion; end of relationship with the femme fatale
cold hill side represents tragic isolation as the knight is believed to be on his own
supernatural
"elfin grot"
mystical residence
small fairy cave
setting reflects the femme fatale and the way the knight is drawn into her because she is a beautiful enigma
builds on Keats' idea of negative capability and how you only have to appreciate the artistic beauty without fully understanding
"Meads"
"full of plant life"
contrasts the "cold hill side"
semantic field of floral items
idea of mystery
Seasons
winter- known for dull monochrome- the femme fatale brings the joy and colour back into the knights life in the form of spring time
set in autumn/ early winter and moves to spring- full cycle of seasons in relation to the story
"the squirrel's granary is full"
storing up food for winter, abundance of happiness before winter( the belle dame leaves the knight "alone and paley loitering"
cycle of seasons is constant to represent the perpetual cycle of suffering as the cycle of seasons is inevitable just like the knight's tragic downfall and future victims of the femme fatale
Link to DOAS
femme fatale is the AD - she draws the knight in just like the AD draws Willy in and consumes them which leads to their inevitable tragic downfall
drawn in but left on the cold hill side like the MAD did to Willy and he doesn't know how he got there
nature imagery represents OGAD