Throughout The Eve of St. Agnes, there is the underlying tone that Porphyro is in someway lying or being deceitful to Madeline. The reader later finds that these tones are purposeful from Keats. In stanza (FILL IN), Keats writes, “How chang’d thou art! How pallid, chill, and drear!” (303). At this moment, Madeline is quickly coming to the realization that the man she had met and fell in love with in her dreams was not the man that was standing in front of her. The version of Porphyro that she wakes up to in her room is not the version that she had conjured in her dreams all of this time. Unsure if she is dreaming, again she exclaims,
"Cruel! what traitor could thee hither bring?
I curse not for my heart is lost in thine,
Though thou forsakes …show more content…
In some way, it is as though her subconscious has tricked her into believing that her dreams are also her reality; reinstating the idea that the beauty of her dreams was also her reality, and her truth. Madeline feels as though she has been ‘deceived’ by Porphyro because he was not what she was in her dreams.
The similarities and differences between the two groups of characters—Madeline and Gatsby and Porphyro and Gatsby— are thought-provoking when taken outside of their respective plots and in the realm of their authors—John Keats and F. Scott Fitzgerald. Keats’s influence of Fitzgerald was inescapable. Fitzgerald’s imitative in a way that still creates new layers on top of Keats’s use of language and characters. What makes their work so similar is not only their use of language, the way in which Fitzgerald is able to take Keats’s ideas and make them his own just enough to give their works distance from one …show more content…
Agnes, that push the idea: to what extent can each of these characters be compared to one another, and is there an overlapping arc between the characters that shows the parallels using the texts. The “pervasive influence of Keats upon Fitzgerald will not be adequately understood if we confine ourselves to the technical similarities and ironic imitations that Fitzgerald made of any particular Keats passage” pushes readers to question the character in ways that are not on the surface of the text; but deep within the print (McCall, 525). Gatsby parallels to Madeline because of their dreamlike fantasies and their devotion to wanting their dreams to in fact come true in some way and transition into their realities. Fitzgerald’s Gatsby is considered a dreamer because of how he associates Daisy Buchannan with his past self, constantly wanting what they had five years previously when they reacquaint in the present. Madeline, in comparison, is constantly drawn back into her dreams when she is unsatisfied with her suitor whom she meets in her bedroom after he prepared an extravagant picnic for her. Their fantasies and prophetic imagination create an interesting comparison when Gatsby is looked at similarly to Porphyro. Although Gatsby can successfully be compared to Madeline, there is also a part of his character that parallels to Porphyro. Both Gatsby and Porphyro’s want and
"Cruel! what traitor could thee hither bring?
I curse not for my heart is lost in thine,
Though thou forsakes …show more content…
In some way, it is as though her subconscious has tricked her into believing that her dreams are also her reality; reinstating the idea that the beauty of her dreams was also her reality, and her truth. Madeline feels as though she has been ‘deceived’ by Porphyro because he was not what she was in her dreams.
The similarities and differences between the two groups of characters—Madeline and Gatsby and Porphyro and Gatsby— are thought-provoking when taken outside of their respective plots and in the realm of their authors—John Keats and F. Scott Fitzgerald. Keats’s influence of Fitzgerald was inescapable. Fitzgerald’s imitative in a way that still creates new layers on top of Keats’s use of language and characters. What makes their work so similar is not only their use of language, the way in which Fitzgerald is able to take Keats’s ideas and make them his own just enough to give their works distance from one …show more content…
Agnes, that push the idea: to what extent can each of these characters be compared to one another, and is there an overlapping arc between the characters that shows the parallels using the texts. The “pervasive influence of Keats upon Fitzgerald will not be adequately understood if we confine ourselves to the technical similarities and ironic imitations that Fitzgerald made of any particular Keats passage” pushes readers to question the character in ways that are not on the surface of the text; but deep within the print (McCall, 525). Gatsby parallels to Madeline because of their dreamlike fantasies and their devotion to wanting their dreams to in fact come true in some way and transition into their realities. Fitzgerald’s Gatsby is considered a dreamer because of how he associates Daisy Buchannan with his past self, constantly wanting what they had five years previously when they reacquaint in the present. Madeline, in comparison, is constantly drawn back into her dreams when she is unsatisfied with her suitor whom she meets in her bedroom after he prepared an extravagant picnic for her. Their fantasies and prophetic imagination create an interesting comparison when Gatsby is looked at similarly to Porphyro. Although Gatsby can successfully be compared to Madeline, there is also a part of his character that parallels to Porphyro. Both Gatsby and Porphyro’s want and