Madeline and Porphyro exit the chamber as a ghost at the end of the poem, when the poet returns to the frame of the winter outside, the cold stone bodies and he reveals the uncertain life of Madeline and Porphyro. He confirms that both Madeline and Porhphyro have been gone for many years. In spite of that there is uncertainty about the fate of the lovers whether they find happiness or tragedy. Keats simply says that “They are gone: ay, ages long ago / These lovers fled away into the storm” (370-371). Porphyro tells Madeline “an elfin-storm from faery land, / Of haggard seeming, but a boon indeed” (343-344) doesn’t make it clear about a real storm (Wiener, 1980, p. 129). In the final stanzas of the poem, Keats completely removes the place from the Chamber of Maiden-thought, to the cold darkness of the grave, giving the experience of both aspects of chamber: they have been
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The old Beadsman who refuses to take all the joys of earthly life and practicing a ritual in favor of imagined bliss of heaven. He is a religious person and he is hired to pray for the people live in Madeline's castle, reappears as a corpse lying in his cell undiscovered and unburied. Keats gives no reason on the pathetic vision of dead Beadsman and also Angela but they deserve the sympathy because death gives them peace and safety in comparison of life which is full of fear to bear the torture from the bellicose families of Madeline and Porphyro. This living situation would have been more difficult for them to sustain.
To conclude, The Eve of St. Agnes expresses love and light and warmth as a core to hate and chill and death. Because the romantic love in the poem is played against the backdrop of human and natural opposition— hatred, bloodthirstiness, old age, death, elemental cold, and storm— the youthful love between the two young lovers strikes the sympathetic chord in the heart of the
The old Beadsman who refuses to take all the joys of earthly life and practicing a ritual in favor of imagined bliss of heaven. He is a religious person and he is hired to pray for the people live in Madeline's castle, reappears as a corpse lying in his cell undiscovered and unburied. Keats gives no reason on the pathetic vision of dead Beadsman and also Angela but they deserve the sympathy because death gives them peace and safety in comparison of life which is full of fear to bear the torture from the bellicose families of Madeline and Porphyro. This living situation would have been more difficult for them to sustain.
To conclude, The Eve of St. Agnes expresses love and light and warmth as a core to hate and chill and death. Because the romantic love in the poem is played against the backdrop of human and natural opposition— hatred, bloodthirstiness, old age, death, elemental cold, and storm— the youthful love between the two young lovers strikes the sympathetic chord in the heart of the