poetry

• Shulkins- La belle


  "his male protagonists...tend to objectify and idealise women into mere idols of beauty"
• la belle and gatsby


  both reveal how love can lead to the downfall of a person- shortcomings of love
• context la belle

  • written in 1819
  • ballad exploring pain of rejection and abandonment
  • keats blurs the line between reality, imagination and deceptive nature of love
  • infused w keats' personal life
  • medieval romance- title
  • ABCB
  • internal rhyme (ail thee, palely) adding to the lyricism and fairy tale like atmosphere
  • argued to be anti-feminist= female figure as seductive femme fatale deceitfully drawing a man away from his masculinity
• context- non sum

  • decadent poem
  • speaker suffer over inability to forget former lover, cynara
  • ABACBC
  • decadent in its fascination w excess and indulgence
  • 19th century, the industrial revolution pushed wealth into cities
  • decadent movement= belief in art for art's sake and nostalgia-poem embodies movement in its indulgence w expensive lifestyles 9fine feasts, wine)
• C. Rumens- non sum


  "Cynara is ever-present"
• C.Rumens- non sum


  "Cynara represents his lost love who has become an obsession"