Bright Star S1

Question 1

Thesis

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Comparative analysis of John Keats oeuvre and Jane Campions ‘Bright Star’ highlights the resonant and dissonant conversations between, whereby challenge values and perspectives through audience nostalgia for antecedent romantic and classical devices.

Question 2

Sub-thesis 1

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John Keats 1819 poem ‘La Belle Dame Sans Merci’ (‘La Belle’) aligns with romantic sensibilities exalting sensual experiences and medieval tenets to challenge rigid social conceptions defining sexual power to a radical extent.

Question 3

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-Romantics – increase sensual love contrasting Christian taboo as “an internal force to control, to legislate and denigrate in the moral scale” (Gerald Enscoe)

Question 4

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Forward thinkers, resisted religious constraints in poems, Byron “the great object of life is sensation.”

Question 5

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Sexual passion in Keats works, LB = knight overwrought

Question 6

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Imagery “fragrant zone” and “sweet moan”

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olfactory and auditory, luxuriate readers sense, elucidating overwhelming passion of intimacy

Question 7

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the lady’s ‘elfin grot’,

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where the speaker “shut her wild wild eyes with kiss four” establishes context familiar in religious allusion, desecrates holy space, aligns LB with romantic unorthodoxy

Question 8

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resonance with romantic values..

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familiarity to challenge ideals of male domination

Question 9

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places lady on ‘pacing steed’

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medieval symbol of power, thorugh which keats challenges male authority

Question 10

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anaphora “she found me”, “she took me”, “she lulled me”

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transfers power to woman, challenging domestic regency

Question 11

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inversion in LB…

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resonates in BS, the relationship

Question 12

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LB scene, alludes “haggard and woe-begone” knight

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mise en scene = TB keats and “full beautiful” Fanny

Question 13

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depictions aligns Aligns w inverted LB, diegetic recitation implies…

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fanny as his “la Belle dame sans merci.”

Question 14

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(Irina Strout, 2016)

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“The poem becomes a commentary of a relationship of a poet and his muse, he cannot maintain a poetic vision; given a momentary glimpse of love.”

Question 15

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Campion denigrates romantic idealism through…

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dissonant relationship

Question 16

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Following LB scene, audience jarred by

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diegetic pots “he is the most cruel man in this entire world”

Question 17

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Revelation of Browns…

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sexual manipulation reframes to feminine perspective, expose contextual realities.

Question 18

s1 conclusion

Answer 18

Keats’ ‘La Belle’ draws on romantic sensuality to idealistically challenge the demoting power dynamics imposed on women, intertextually discussed by resonant and dissonant portrayals of romantic relations in Campions ‘Bright Star’, through which both texts, to varying extents challenge controversial contextual power dynamics.