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Keats poetry - Coggle Diagram
Keats poetry
LBD - La Belle Dame Sans Merci
key points
K challenges line between reality and imagination and the deceptive nature of love
enhanced by its ballad form and vivd lyrical language, the poem warns that love, beauty and joy are short-lived and that the physical attraction and seduction can mislead anyone, even a noble, chivalrous knight
context
structure
uses balladic stanza to root hspoem in tradition and tie the form to mythic content
development of meat's own theory of
negative capability
term coined by him where he is inspired by Shakespeares work, he describes it as 'being in uncertainties, mysteries, doubts, without any irritable reaching after fact and reason'
wrote in 1819, significant in both love and loss
lost brother to TB
started getting serious with neighbour, Fanny Brawne
language
poem has 2 speakers, one unnamed and the other, the knight, who tells his story of love and abandonment
significant use of symbolism throughout poem creating vivid imagery. also alliteration, assonance and repitition
summary
story of knight encountering a beautiful elfin woman who abandons him and leaves him distraught and void of life and love
the title
K associates poem with ideas of medieval romance
means ' the beautiful lady without mercy'