isabella

• Fair Isabel, poor simple Isabel


  Isabella presented as a tragic hero with a sense of naivety and sympathy foreshadowing her fate
• Lorenzo a young palmer in Love's eye


  palmer = Christian

  pilgrim hence this could be seen as a devotion to Christianity.
• They could not


  repetition represents the characters' entrapment in passionate love and emphasises the impossibility of them being together.
• With every morn their love grew tender


  Their love gets stronger, constant references to nature illustrates this growing passion.
• Her beauty father than the falcon spies


  Lorenzo as a falcon creates the idea Lorenzo must observe from afar. Also references the theme of blindness.
• Sick longing


  their passionate love drives them to sickness foreshadows the inevitable tragic outcome.
• I cannot live


  deep obsession and proleptic of his death.
• All close they met again...


  forbidden love and their secret leads to their fall
• Know there is richest juice in poison flowers


  danger encompasses them heightening the sweetness of their love. Blindness and a mild criticism of the couple by Keats.
• ancestral merchandise


  old money

  critic of capitalism leading to tragedy
• Hungry pride and gainful cowardice


  hubris and brother's pride/greed.
• To kill Lorenzo and bury him


  blunt statement of his death dehumanising Lorenzo with no consideration of tragedy to Isabella.
• Their murdered man


  inevitability of Lorenzo's death as he is already dead.
• Lorenzo's flush with love


  entrapment and extreme blindness of passionate love
• There was Lorenzo slain and buried in


  abrupt murder focusing on emotions
• By gradual decay her beauty fell


  enjambement symbolising her fall of beauty in her suffering.
• See their sister in her snowy shroud


  sibilance reflecting her loss of identity entrapped in her demise at winter due to the snow.
• Shed one tear


  asking for her grief CLEARLY not asking her for what he does highlighting her agency.
• But there is a crime - a brother's bloody knife


  realisation of brother's actions
• twas love - cold,dead indeed but not dethroned


  Isabella's love is cold and dead(figuratively and literally) but she is still able to feel it.
• so that the jewel/came forth and in perfumed leaflets spread


  decaying as basil sucks the life out of Lorenzo (literally and metaphorically to Isabel).basil grows stronger as she grows weaker
• Away they went with blood upon their heads to banishment


  brother's punishment with a slight sense of justice
• No heart was there in Florence but did morn in pity of her love


  Keat's tells us that we must mourn and pity Isabella
• Cruelty To steal my basil pot away from me


  Brothers are agents in her suffering and there is cruelty.