isabella

• isabella 'poor simple isabel'


  naive product of her society. keats bemoans strength of cultural norms.
• isabella 'honeyless days and days did he let pass' 'to-morrow' 'inwardly did pray'


  not stereotypically masculine. cyclical nature of denial, fruitless inaction and passivity leads to their deaths.
• isabella 'Lorenzo!'


  she breaks the spell of passivity - reminder of his inferiority.
• isabella 'twin roses of the zephr blown apart'


  despite the inequality of their lives, their love is equal.
• isabella 'richest juice in poison flowers'


  poison of the brothers, tone shifts from their love and marks the end of their elevation and beauty.
• isabella 'red lined accounts' 'money bag' 


  blood spilled for their gain. emphasises the value placed on monetary value over love.
• isabella 'why were they proud?'


  authorial intervention - keats admitting his disbelief and disdain.
• isabella 'hunted hare'


  predators, inequality and exploitation.
• isabella 'these brethren'


  the brothers are agents of political power, generalising them is keats directly attacking their individuality.
• isabella 'murdered man'


  lorenzo means nothing to them. not yet dead but highlights the inevitable path to his demise.
• isabella 'each richer by his being a murderer'


  marxist lens
• isabella 'sorrow' and 'love'


  coexist
• isabella 'her sweet basil'


  basil becomes a synechdote for lorenzo. isabella's obsessive nature shown by the possessive language 'her'.
• isabella 'fed it with thin tears' and 'shed one tear'


  symbiotic relationship and utter devotion, leeched the life out of her. she relinquishes all her physical strength to grow the basil. she disregards is wishes in his vision for her own selfish grieving.
• isabella 'sad ditty'


  their love is immortalised, despite tragedy, love prevails.
• isabella 'so completely...'

  'so completely has this country been spoiled by the apetite of money getting... so fatally do they confound industry with increasing toil'.
• isabella - image of disease is rife


  'paleness' foreshadows death.
• isabella - lorenzo passive even in death


  emphasises the brother's control, demonstrates his exploitation.
• isabella - no intense detail of lorenzo's death is shared


  creating pathos - love cannot be destroyed even by death.
• isabella - the brothers are manipulated by society exploitation too


  they are the patriarchs so have to comply to fulfil a certain role so would be a failure to let isabella marry lorenzo - they are puppets for a wider force.