love and loss
...is shows that the woman’s feelings may have been shutting off towards the man. The two parted in grief and sorrow and in coldness. The next verse says that the man felt very nervous and shocked. He says that “The dew of the morning sunk. Chill on my brow. It felt like the warning of what I feel now”. Even at the time of their parting, he knew there was worse to follow. Now it has happened: the woman has lost her reputation. He fells his grief all over again, and also fells contaminated by what she has done: “I hear thy name spoken. And share in its shame”. The next stanza shows that when the man hears the girl’s name, it is like a funeral bell. It is painful and unwanted. In this stanza, he starts to feel the pain and the repulsion. The word “knell” shows this pain and repulsion is truthfully happening. It also shows that the man really loved her, but she had an affair with someone else. He shows his regret by using the word “rue”. And the last verses tells the reader that they both met in secret, but that they have had to keep it a secret throughout. Now hw will have to keep it a secret all his life, so that his reputation will not suffer with hers. In the last stanza, he is sad because he has been deceived by the lover that once was his own. This poem is very romantic and heartbreaking. There is also a lot of selfishness throughout by the man. It is proven that he didn’t want his reputation to go down because he says “In secret we met”. This just shows how much he cares about only himself- he has feelings for her, and they are strong, but his feelings are even stronger about the damage done to him. If he met, it would be like the moment of their parting: even though the reasons are different, he would have nothing to show her but “silence and tears”. The second poem I want to talk about is “La Belle Dame Sans Merci”. This poem is written by the English poet, John Keats. John Keats was born in 1795 and died in 1821. The rhyme pattern for the first stanza of this poem is as follows:- abcb. This rhyme was made by using the rhyming words at the end of each line, which were:- Arms- a Loitering- b Lake- c Sing- b This poem is a ballad. All ballads have this kind of rhyme. This rhyme show a unusual rhyme. The metre or rhyme for this poem is as follows:- Stresses for each line of the first paragraph. Line one:- four Line two:- four Line three:-four Line four:- three This poem is unusual for a ballad, where the normal pattern of stresses is 4-3-4-3. The poem is about a knight who is taken away by a beautiful woman who turns out to be deceitful. In the first stanza, there is something wrong with the knight. He has lost this desire to do anything. According to him, nature is coming to an end. This is something strange. The losing of desire is proven when the narrator says “Alone and palely loitering?”. This shows that he is by himself and is with nobody and is wandering around doing nothing at all. The next stanza tell the reader that the knight is “haggard”- it looks as though there is a witch who sits on him and disturbs him in his nightmares. It also says that winter is about to begin and that all the creatures have has already got their food and vegetation gathered for the winter but that the knight hasn’t done so. This is proven when it says that “the squirrel’s granary if full”: it shows that winter is approaching and that the harvest is done. The next verse tell us that the knight is starting to get a fever. The narrator sees that knight is in “anguish”. This shows that the has an intense fever starting to arrive. The pinkness from his cheeks if dying away because of the fever that he is starting to get: ...