Thursday, April 11, 2013

~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. some(prenominal) were written in the 17th Century and be written in the style of their day. There are many illustrations of venerate through reputation 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(prenominal) poets compare the cheeks to a flower. In La Belle Dame Sans Merci, on thy cheeks a melt rose and in First Love her face bloomed like a sweet flower. Similarly, both poetrys are written in ballad form and told as a story, very varied to the 15th century sonnet of Shakespeares Shall I Compare Thee in which he is writing in a monologue style, addressing someone else. In Contrast to First Love and La Belle Dame Sans Merci, in that respect is use of archaic language; hath, wandrst, thou, growst and he uses iambic pentameter which is typical of his style. However, Keats poem is different to the others as he includes images of dreams and a romantic, witching(prenominal) fantasy element when the woman is described as faerys child and when she took him to her elfin grot. His poem is much more like a fairytale, very different to Shakespeares style.

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        Overall, the tone of La Belle Dame Sans Merci and First Love is pathos and sadness is shown in the repetitive language that suggests death and coldness, death- sickish, my face turned pale as deadly pale. These two poems end more dole effectivey compared to Shall I compare Thee, with an end to love my heart has left wing its dwelling-place and no birds sing. No Birds sing again is showing the use of nature to show the feelings of love. The nature is in sympathy to...

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