Explore narrative voice and tone in La belle dame sans merci La belle dame sans merci is a ballad written by poet John Keats in a medieval age‚ it is induldged in a theme of knights‚ fairies and witches. "La Belle Dame Sans Merci" is in the form of a dialogue between two speakers. The first is the unnamed speaker who comes across a sick‚ sad knight and pesters him with questions for the first three stanzas. Stanzas 4-12 are the knight’s response. There aren’t any quotation marks to tip you off to
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the student’s good books. However‚ my mind wonders‚ can a teacher change your life? She is really the “guiding light”. She really means a lot to me. I cannot forget those precious moments which I spent with her‚ that time is really retrievable as John Keats has truly said: ‘’A thing of beauty is a joy forever: Its loveliness increases; it
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AN ODE To Autumn Summary Keats’s speaker opens his first stanza by addressing Autumn‚ describing its abundance and its intimacy with the sun‚ with whom Autumn ripens fruits and causes the late flowers to bloom. In the second stanza‚ the speaker describes the figure of Autumn as a female goddess‚ often seen sitting on the granary floor‚ her hair “soft-lifted” by the wind‚ and often seen sleeping in the fields or watching a cider-press squeezing the juice from apples. In the third stanza‚ the speaker
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Book review: Enduring love‚ by Ian McEwen Plot: The basic story line to the book is all about a man who experiences a ballooning accident where he and a group of other guys try to pull down a balloon that has a boy in‚ which is the captain of the air balloons grandson...so they are all holding it down trying to get the kid out but a strong gust of wind blows the balloon up and the four guys still holding on are pulled up with it but before it gets too high three of the four jump off to safety
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Ode to a Nightingale (Critical Appreciation) Written in May 1819‚ many believe Keats’ “Ode to a Nightingale” to have been written at the home of Charles Brown‚ when Keats sat and listened to the bird in the garden for some hours. In form this poem is a “regular ode”. There is a uniformity of the number of lines and of the rhyme-scheme in all the stanzas. Anyway this is more complex poem than "Ode to Autumn‚" consisting of eight stanzas and is a little more irregular in structure. Each stanza
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My heart aches‚ and a drowsy numbness pains My sense‚ as though of hemlock I had drunk‚ Or emptied some dull opiate to the drains One minute past‚ and Lethe-wards had sunk: ’Tis not through envy of thy happy lot‚ But being too happy in thy happiness‚—- That thou‚ light-winged Dryad of the trees‚ In some melodious plot Of beechen green‚ and shadows numberless‚ Singest of summer in full-throated ease. O for a draught of vintage‚ that hath
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British Literature Annual Booker Prize is televised as an important national event‚ causing a great deal of discussion. The rich variety of theatre performance available in London is one of literature attractions to visitors. Early Writing: much early British writing was concerned with Christianity: Anglo-Saxons produced beautifully illustrated. Few people in this period were literate‚ because the English language was so different that make native English people give up reading. One of the
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with references to these two seemingly unrelated conditions‚ and I feel is notable‚ if not key‚ to much of Keats’s work. In a way it could be said to symbolise Keats’s “bitter-sweet melancholy”; the idea which all the Romantics referenced‚ and which Keats literally lived‚ with the fact that he had just met the love of his life‚ and was just coming to prominence‚ but at the same time would soon be claimed by tuberculosis. The beauty of his work‚ and his perceived beauty of Fanny Brawne‚ verses the evil
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Cited: John Keats “Ode to a Nightingale” The Norton Anthology of English Literature (Ninth Edition) Ed. Stephen Greenblatt. 2012. Print Lord Alfred Tennyson “In Memoriam A.H.H” The Norton Anthology of English Literature (Ninth Edition) Ed. Stephen Greenblatt. 2012
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The culture of the arts took off during Romanticism. In literature there were leading writers like‚ Wordsworth‚ Shelley‚ Keats‚ and Byron changing how prose was written. In music‚ composers like‚ Beethoven‚ Wagner‚ Chopin‚ and Tchaikovsky were making their romantic impact in music. Romanticism could even be seen in paintings by: Gros‚ Goya‚ and Delacroix. However‚ the biggest cultural impact seen during this time is the invention of the folklore. Hobsbawm believes‚ “The Folk’ could be revolutionary
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