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KEATS Flashcards

1
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Cyclical structure in LBDSM

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Entrapment, grief, suffering

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Danger in beauty LBDSM

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‘fading rose’

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Fall in status in LBDSM

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‘pale kings and princes’

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Isolation in LBDSM

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‘alone and palely loitering’

‘on the cold hill side’

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Ballad form LBDSM

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Suffering

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Pathetic fallacy LBDSM

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Changing of seasons, shift in power

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Evidence of madness in the ‘faery’

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‘wild wild eyes’

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‘I made a garland for her head’

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Could suggest entrapment?

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9
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Religious language used for Madeline

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‘splendid angel’, ‘saint’

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10
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‘so ____ a thing, so ____ from ______ _____’

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‘so pure a thing, so free from mortal taint’

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Cyclical structure in EOSA

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Returns to image of coldness- ‘ashes cold’- implies that the only conclusion for love is death

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Semantic field of coldness EOSA

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‘bitter chill’, ‘frosted breath’

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13
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Vilification of the guests EOSA

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‘barbarian hordes’

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14
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Evidence of Porphyro as a villain

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‘painful change’

‘beset with tears’

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15
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Significance of Lamia’s snake form

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Allusions to Satan

Does this make her unredeemable?

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16
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Lamia’s appearance

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‘sapphires, greens and amethyst’ - seductive nature?

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17
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Keats’ view on dreams

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Symbolise transcendance and imagination

Therefore their love is inevitably transient?

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18
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‘do not ___ ______ ___ at the ____ _____ of ____ _________’

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‘do not all charms fly at the mere touch of cold philosophy?’

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19
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Evidence that Lamia and Lycius’ love is an illusion

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‘as fearful the whole charm might fade’

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20
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‘and Lycius’ arms were _____ __ _______’

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‘and Lycius’ arms were empty of delight’

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21
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Lamia in classical mythology

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Was robbed of her children by Hera, vowed to revenge herself on all children

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22
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Contrasts in Lamia (3)

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  1. Imagination vs reason
  2. Dream vs reality
  3. Poetry vs philosophy
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23
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Vilification of Lamia

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Her form as a deceptive shape shifter, associations with demons and madness

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24
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Suggestion that Lamia puts Lycius under a spell

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‘from one trance… into another’

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25
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Lycius as a helpless victim under Lamia

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‘tangled in her mesh’

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26
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Lycius’ objectification of Lamia

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‘prize’

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27
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How does Keats split our sympathies in Lamia?

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Presents both Lamia and Lycius as the villain and the victim at various points- alternate between roles

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28
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How does Keats present Apollonius’ wisdom?

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Wisdom which brings destruction

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29
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‘by the ____ glances of _______ ____’ (Lamia)

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‘by the love glances of unlovely eyes’

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30
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‘Vale of soulmaking’

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Link between beauty and pain- Keats believed that one had to experience suffering in order to know true love and beauty

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31
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‘Vale of soulmaking’ in Lamia

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Lamia’s ‘melancholy eyes’

Pain as Lamia changes (‘her eyes in torture fixed’) shows that beauty comes at a price

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32
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Evidence of Lamia as twisted and manipulative

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‘twisted braid’

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33
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Lycius as lovesick

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‘pale with pain’

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34
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Lamia entangling Lycius- manipulator

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‘the life she had so tangled in her mesh’

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35
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Lamia as deceptive/ false

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‘playing the woman’s part’

36
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Impermanence of Lamia

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‘as a star in water’ (only a reflection)

37
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Love as painful in Lamia (reflecting Keats’ views)

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‘grievous torment’

38
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‘there was __ _________ in those ____’ (Lamia)

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‘there was no recognition in those orbs’

39
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The egotistical sublime

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Focuses on the importance of nature and beauty, overpowering reason
Sees everything in relation to themselves

40
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Keats said he was experiencing a ‘_______ ___________ of feelings’

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‘gordion complication of feelings’

41
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What did Keats say about women?

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‘children to whom I would rather give a sugar plum than my time’

42
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Brothers and capitalism in Isabella

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‘red lined accounts’
‘ancestral merchandise’
‘hollow eyes’
‘in blood from stinging whip’

43
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What technique does Keats use to convey his views on capitalism in Isabella?

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Hypophora

44
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Hypophora in Isabella

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‘Why were they proud?’

Suggest that hubris may lead to tragedy

45
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Zoomorphism of Lorenzo

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‘hunted hare’

46
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Allusions to Romeo and Juliet in Isabella

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‘and from her chamber window he would catch’

47
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‘with every morn their love grew tenderer, and with every eve deeper and tenderer still’

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Suggests the depth and intimacy of their love
Anaphora shows increasing infatuation
Could also hint to Isabella’s fatal flaw

48
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Lovesickness in Isabella

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‘sick longing’- Keats views that love is a sickness?
Fanny Brawne
Toxic relationship

49
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Allusion to Dido in Isabella

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Dido was a powerful woman who was abandoned by love in the underworld- foreshadows Isabella’s fate

50
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Anaphora in Isabella to accentuate their closeness

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‘all close they met’

51
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Brothers as ‘half ignorant’

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Tragic victims? Products of their society?

52
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Verb used to describe Lorenzo’s death

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‘slaughter’
Animalistic, disrespectful
Implies necessity?

53
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Shift from autumn to winter in Isabella

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Highlights Isabella’s misery

54
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‘to see their sister in snowy shroud’

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shroud- foreshadows her death, or implies that she died with Lorenzo?

55
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Quotations for Isabella’s detachment from the outside world

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‘she forgot the stars, and the moon, and the sun’

56
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The brothers separating Isabella and Lorenzo even in death

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‘they contrived to steal the basil pot’

57
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Allusion to siren in LBDSM?

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‘a faery’s song’

58
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‘Do not all charms fly…’

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‘…. at the mere touch of cold philosophy’

59
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Inevitability in Lamia

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Their love is built on deception/ an illusion

60
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Madeleine’s status as tragic victim

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Highlighted innocence and chastity to further a) sexualise her, or b) vilify Porphyro for what he has done

61
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Isolation in EOSA

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Madeleine’s physical isolation in her room allows tragedy to develop

62
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Isolation in Lamia

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‘shut from the busy world’

‘had not a friend’

63
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Power in Lamia

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Power of both Lamia and Lycius over each other

Power of men to dominate (Hermes, Apollonius, Lycius)

64
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Treatment of women in LBDSM

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Sexualises her sadness ‘I wiped her tears with kisses four’

Femme fatale

65
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Power in LBDSM

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The knight believes that his power, stemming from his status, means that he has a right to her

66
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Brother’s plan

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‘When twas their plan, to coax her by degrees/ to some high noble and his olive trees’

67
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Inevitability in Isabella

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‘For simple Isabel is soon to be/ among the dead’

‘For Isabel, sweet Isabel, will die’

68
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Inevitability in LBDSM

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‘Death pale’

69
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Keats letters to Fanny Brawne

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‘I want to live with you forever’

70
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‘O ________ Lycius! ______!’

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‘O senseless Lycius! Madman!’

71
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LBDSM context

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Written in the summer of 1819- Keats knew he was dying

At the height of his unconsummated love for FB

72
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Setting in LBDSM

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Bleak wintry landscape reflects the knight’s deathly state- shrivelling plants
‘cold hill side’

73
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Flowers in LBDSM

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May serve to symbolise the danger in beauty (‘fading rose’)

Lily is the traditional symbol of death

74
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Juxtaposition of the flowers in LBDSM

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Lily (symbol of death) and rose (symbol of love) may suggest the inseparability of love and death

75
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The faery as a femme fatale

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‘she lulled me asleep’
‘wild wild eyes’
‘a faery’s song’

76
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Madeleine’s holy characterisation

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She is associated with heaven rather than earth. Emphasises her virginity
Contrasts with Porphyro- ‘love’s fev’rous citadel’

77
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Madeleine as entrapped

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‘lattice’ ‘bodice’

78
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Spoiling of nature in Isabella

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‘dip their swords in water’

79
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Hermes as a villain

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‘like a stooped falcon ere he takes his prey’

80
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Happiness in Isabella

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‘great bliss was with them, and great happiness’

81
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Happiness in Lamia

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‘unperplexed delight and pleasure’

82
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Blindness in LBDSM

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‘And nothing else saw all day long’

83
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‘________ frame’

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‘dazzling frame’

84
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‘And fell into a ________ ___ of him’

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‘And fell into a swooning love of him’

85
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Keats love to FB

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‘swooning admiration’

86
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Keats to FB- ‘I cannot…

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…exist without you’

87
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Brothers as cruel

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‘Men of cruel clay’

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