Isabella - keats

    Cards (15)

    • "fair isabel, poor isabel!" first line of the poem sympathy for her is set up from start
    • "with every morn their love grew tenderer" 2nd stanza
    • "her lute string gave an echo of his name, she spoilt her half-done embroidery with the same" he is a distraction not going to end well
    • " but, alas, honeyless days and days did he let pass"
    • "until isabella's untouched cheek fell sick" love sick
    • "i will drink her tears" stanza five foreshadows her watering him with her tears
    • "thine eyes by gazing" not spying - looking in admiration
    • "leading me from wintry cold ..thou leadest me to summer clime" stanza 9 metaphor of seasons
    • ""i must taste the blossoms that unfold" sexual connotations
    • "lips grew bold and poesied with hers in dewy rhyme"
    • "great bliss was with them and great happiness grew, like a lusty flower in junes caress"
    • "twin roses by the zephyr blown apart only to meet again more close"
    • "ah! better it had been for ever so, than idle ears should pleasure in their woe" if only it had always been like that with no interference from the quotidian world.
    • "even bees, the little almsmen of spring bowers, know there is richest juice in poison flowers" nature knows - foreshadowing their tragic end
    • "two brothers ..enriched from ancestral merchandise"
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