KEATS - ISABELLA

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    Xanthe Chelebi

    Cards (14)

    • “My soul is to its doom: I would not grieve“

      ☆Stanza 8.
      ☆connotations of love and death - love is dangerous and gets him killed.
      ☆foreshadows Lorenzos death and Isabellas grief.
      ☆lorenzo is somewhat aware of his impending death - knows the sin of their “love laws”
    • ASPECTS OF TRAGEDY
      ANAGNORISIS. (moment of realisation)
      CATASTROPHE.
      MYOPIA. (blindness)
      CATHARSIS. (solution)
      LOSS.
      TRAGIC HERO/VILLAIN/VICTIM.
      PRIDE - HUBRIS.
      DEATH.
      TRAGIC FLAW.
      TREATMENT OF WOMEN.
      FATE.
      MISERY.
      PEREPETEIA.
      SETTING.
      CHAOS.
      MISJUDGEMENTS.
      AROUSAL OF FEAR AND PITY.HARMARTIA.
    • ASPECTS OF TRAGEDY
      HARMARTIA (fatal flaw)
    • “Another night, and not my passion shrive”

      ☆‘Another night’ - lorenzo doesn’t have many left.
      ☆beginning of turning point
    • “Timid lips grew bold”

      ☆Sexual - highlights the corruption of innocence by sexual desire.
      ☆character development - he has gained courage and confidence.
      ☆he has changed for Isabella as she nearly died, wanted to be more courageous with his love for her.
    • “Great bliss was with them, and great happiness grew, like a lusty flower in Junes caress.”
      ☆Simile
      ☆metaphor for their love
      ☆infatuation with each other
      ☆dramatic irony - their ‘great happiness‘ will soon be cut short.
      ☆Natural imagery - romantics
      ☆connotations of flowers with death
    • “Twin roses by the zephyr blown apart Only to meet again more close, and share the inward fragrance of each others heart.”
      ☆“Apart” - inevitability of their separation by death
      ☆“Twin roses” - both meet in death
      ☆romantic imagery
      ☆myopic - they can’t see that they’re both heading towards a path of death and insanity
    • “Sang of delicious love and honeyed heart.”

      ☆Lustful appetite - consuming imagery
      ☆sweet connotations - foreshadows the bitterness to come
    • “Before the dusk had taken from the stars it’s pleasant veil”

      ☆Bridal imagery- they will never get to marriage (symbolic of a happy ending that they will never get)
      ☆“Dusk” - darkness - symbolic of the tragic villains (Isabella’s brothers)
    • “Than Idle ears should pleasure in their woe“

      ☆Other people (the brothers) want to bring them down.
      ☆societal standards
      ☆love blinds them from reality (hence its only ears)
      ☆“Woe” - highlights future tragedy.
    • “Too many tears of love have been shed“

      ☆Narrative gap - narrator stops us from getting too attached to characters in stanza 12.
      ☆mocking the love between the two.
      ☆“Too many…” repeated 4x - highlighting their obsession with each other and their never ending love.
    • “Too much pity after they are dead.”

      ☆Foreshadows death
    • “The little sweet doth kill much bitterness”

      ☆Constraint of bitter and sweet
      ☆their sweet love and life is about to turn bitter /sour.
    • “Know there is richest juice in poison flowers”
      ☆Foreshadowing what’s to come.