La Belle Dame sans Merci

The Bartolome de las Casas document, “The Devastation of the Indies”, written in 1565, says many things regarding both the Indians and the Spanish Christians. Bartolome de las Casas describes a number of events that took place between the Indians and the Christians who settled in the Indies, many of which were not respectable events. In “The Devastation of the Indies”, Bartolome writes about his view on the way the Indians were, on the way the Spanish were, and on the way the Spanish treated the…

other’s destruction.”17 Las Casas hoped to assimilate the natives into the ‘self’ as to “reject all nonrelative…

I will be drawing the similarities and differences between ‘La Belle Dame Sans Merci’ by John Keats and ‘My Last Duchess’ by Robert Browning and how these similarities and differences affect the portrayal of relationships in the poems. There is a lot of history utilised in both poems. At the time Robert Browning wrote ‘My Last Duchess’, there was a large influence in Italy mainly over possessions and status. The story of the Borgias family, who paid people to kill those that they didn’t like…

This weekend’s reading was over John Keats’ La belle dame sans merci and Mary Wollstonecraft’s A Vindication of the Rights of Women. The first reading by John Keats was translated from French as “The beautiful lady without mercy”. The beginning of the reading foreshadows, that the poem itself would be about women and how they have to use their bodies to get favors or services but on the contrary the reading itself tended to focus on how a man is affected by this system. The man, in this case a…

The literary ballad takes up Thomas Rymer's basic components – a human man being seduced by a supernatural being – but enhances the tragedy of the narrative. The story is embedded in a frame dialogue, but each party only speaks once. This makes La Belle Dame a little less balladic, as it just appears to have a first person narrator. As suggested by Hoffmann, this makes the ballad more lyrical, hence emotional. The focus lies on the personal experience of the main character. The fact that this…

Lord Byron How does Bryon’s poetry represent the romantic movement? Lord Byron also know as George Gordon poetry was a different type of romanticism. Lord Bryon created characters that were melancholy, defiant, and with a secret guilt which made his readers want more of his visual pictures That’s what makes him such a brilliant writer because he changed the style of writing for Romanticism; he also inspired his predecessors such as John Keats to follow a similar style. Romanticism was more…

In ‘Always Marry An April Girl’,Nash’s depiction of April can be seen as misogynistic through his negative views on women’s emotional, sensitive and fleeting nature. The poet plays on the noun “April” by constantly contrasting the woman and the month against each other. “April golden, April cloudy,/Gracious, cruel, tender, rowdy”. The repetitive use of the noun “April” is used to juxtapose the adjective “golden” which represents autumn and the verb “cloudy” which could connote rain and…

My Essay is Scary Enough Throughout the Romantic Period, the popularity of spine-chilling literature containing ghastly creatures such as dead bodies, zombies, and the supernatural, as well as death in general, had exponentially increased as a topic used among poets of this time period. Moreover, literary works that have earned a widespread reputation such as Samuel T. Coleridge 's "The Rime of the Ancient Mariner" and Mary Shelley 's "Frankenstein" were created and cultivated during the…

John Keats has a standard of his poems: ”Poetry should... should strike the reader as a wording of his own highest thoughts, and appear almost a remembrance.” This standard is something that he strived to accomplish throughout his life. He was born October 31, 1795 and was the oldest of Thomas and Frances Jennings Keats four children. Keats passed away on February 23, 1821 at the age of 25, from tuberculosis. His father, who was a stable-keeper, died when Keats was 8. Soon thereafter, his mother…

During the Age of Enlightenment, thinkers believed in reason, liberty, and scientific methods instead of tradition and religion. Many writers published their works that stated the problems of the misuse of religion and the importance of critical thinking. Moliere was one of writers during the Age of Enlightenment, known mostly for his comedy. He was a French play writer who wrote the comedy Tartuffe, which shows the concept of religious hypocrisy, ignorance and fanaticism. In the drama, he…