LA BELLE DAME SANS MERCI Flashcards
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ELEMENTS OF TRAGEDY (PT 1)
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- Tragic hero
- Tragic victim
- Tragic villain
- Tragic setting
- Tragic ending
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ELEMENTS OF TRAGEDY (PT 2)
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- Sadness
- Loss
- Isolation
- Treatment of Women
- Emptiness
- Death
- Suffering
- Overarching solemn + serious tone/language
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ELEMENTS OF ROMANTICISM: Emotional Intensity
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“She looked at me as she did love”
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ELEMENTS OF ROMANTICISM: Reversal of Stereotypes
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“She found me roots of relish sweet”
“She lulled me to sleep”
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ELEMENTS OF ROMANTICISM: Exiled Hero
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“And I awoke and found myself here, on the cold hillside”
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ELEMENTS OF ROMANTICISM: Mythology
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“Manna-dew”- food of the gods
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WHAT IS A BALLAD
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- A narrative poem originally meant to be sung
- Traditionally, ballads explore themes of love, death and/or the supernatural
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TRADITIONAL FEATURES OF A BALLAD
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- Four stanza scheme (quatrain) with ABAB or ABCB rhyme scheme
- Follows a distinct rhythmic scheme usually iambic tetrameter or trimeter
- Employs repetition in terms of a repeated refrain (like a chorus) or incremental repetition or anaphora
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TITLE OF THE POEM
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LA BELLE DAME SANS MERCI: THE BEAUTIFUL LADY WITHOUT PITY
- She’s a femme fatale, a figure who attracts lovers only to destroy them by supernatural powers
- She’s a character who is all at once beautiful, erotically attractive, fascinating + deadly
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KEY QUOTES
(STANZAS 1-3)
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