la belle de sans merci by john keats summary?
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The poem describes the encounter between an unnamed knight and a mysterious fairy. It opens with a description of the knight in a barren landscape, "haggard" and "woe-begone". He tells the reader how he met a beautiful lady whose "eyes were wild"; he set her on his horse and they went together to her "elfin grot", where they began to make love. Falling asleep, the knight had a vision of "pale kings and princes", who warn him that "La Belle Dame sans Merci hath thee in thrall!". He awoke to find himself on the same "cold hill's side" where he is now "palely loitering".\n\nAlthough La Belle Dame Sans Merci is short (only twelve stanzas of four lines each, with an ABCB rhyme scheme), it is full of enigmas. Because the knight is associated with images of death - a lily, paleness, "fading", "wither[ing]" - he may well be dead himself at the time of the story. He is clearly doomed to remain on the hillside, but the cause of this fate is unknown. A straightforward reading suggests that the Belle Dame entraps him, along the lines of tales like Thomas the Rhymer or Tam Lin. More recent feminist commentators have suggested that the knight in fact raped the Belle Dame, and is being justly punished - this is based on textual hints like "she wept, and sigh'd full sore". Ultimately, the decision comes down to whether Keats wrote the poem as a simple story, or as a story with a moral: given his other work, this may be more an evocation of feeling than an intellectual attempt at moralising.
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This is 19 lines, but it is a great poem and a fantastic oral presentation!  Good luck!\n\n \nDylan Thomas. Funny-looking chap, but chicks dug him. \nDo not go gentle into that good night,\nOld age should burn and rave at close of day; \nRage, rage against the dying of the light. \n\n\nThough wise men at their end know dark is right, \nBecause their words had forked no lightning they \nDo not go gentle into that good night. \n\n\nGood men, the last wave by, crying how bright \nTheir frail deeds might have danced in a green bay, \nRage, rage against the dying of the light. \n\n\nWild men who caught and sang the sun in flight, \nAnd learn, too late, they grieved it on its way, \nDo not go gentle into that good night. \n\n\nGrave men, near death, who see with blinding sight \nBlind eyes could blaze like meteors and be gay, \nRage, rage against the dying of the light. \n\n\nAnd you, my father, there on the sad height, \nCurse, bless me now with your fierce tears, I pray. \nDo not go gentle into that good night. \nRage, rage against the dying of the light. \n\n\nDylan Thomas, 1951 or 1952 \n\n\nA Villanelle is a 19-line poem consisting of five tercets and a final quatrain on two rhymes, with the first and third lines of the first tercet repeated alternately as a refrain closing the succeeding stanzas and joined as the final couplet of the quatrain. The word is French, derived from Italian villanella, the feminine of villanello, rustic; from villano, peasant; from Vulgar Latin villanus; from Latin villa, a country house. \n\n"Addressed to the poet's father as he approached blindness and death. The relevant aspect of the relationship was Thomas's profound respect for his father's uncompromising independence of mind, now tamed by illness. In the face of strong emotion, the poet sets himself the task of mastering it in the difficult form of the villanelle. Five tercets are followed by a quatrain, with the first and last line of the stanza repeated alternately as the last line of the subsequent stanzas and gathered into a couplet at the end of the quatrain. And all this on only two rhymes. Thomas further compounds his difficulty by having each line contain 10 syllables".
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Well, I tried but I need to know more about the lines in the poem.   Maybe you'll have better luck with these sites.\n\nhttp://www.bartleby.com/\n\nhttp://www.allexperts.com/user.cgi?m=4&expID=50938&catID=678\n\nhttp://www.online-literature.com/forums/showthread.php?t=12717\n\nhttp://www.thent.com/poetry.htm\n\nhttp://lii.org/search/file/poetry
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Hey,\n  The summary and anaylsis of the book can be found at the following two websites:\n   http://www.angelfire.com/ny/gaybooks/lefthandofdarkness.html \nhttp://www.users.muohio.edu/erlichrd/courseinsf/Lhd.html
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That poem rocks.  I know that it is controversial.  I would be interested to see what people thought of a choice line or two from the poem.
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In this sonnet, I think Keats is saying that, if he has to live alone, then he'd rather spend his time in the country than in the city. That's the literal meaning. The poem itself is more complicated. It's hugely ironic that he is addressing solitude as though it were a human being (the address to an inanimate object or quality is called "apostrophe," considering Solitude to be like a human companion is "personification"). The irony is that Solitude doesn't make ideal company, if company is what you're after.\n\nHe knows this and says that he'll be happy to share the experience of the beauty of the forest with Solitude, but he's rather have "the sweet converse of an innocent mind"; namely, he's rather spend his time with the young woman he loves, and report back to Solitude. Better yet, Keats thinks that the greatest joy would be for his lover and himself to flee the wide world and escape into the "haunts" of Solitude; that he and his love could be alone together in the beautiful (bucolic) landscape he imagines.\n\nRemember, the poem isn't just about what it means on the surface, though. It's an interplay between that superficial narrative and the sound - the rhythm, rhyme, and all the patterns English.\n\nI hope this gives you some basic insight into the poem. It's by no means the last word on it, though. You should really read it very carefully over and over again. Try memorizing it. If you know it well enough to recite it, you'll begin to understand its meaning a lot better than anyone can explain it to you. Believe it or not, you'll even be able to write a better paper about it, because you'll KNOW it from your own perspective. Keats's language can connect to all the other stuff in your mind that makes up your experience.\n\n(That's "dwell," by the way. And "Keats's.")
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Go to:\nhttp://www.cliffsnotes.com/WileyCDA/LitNote/id-150.html
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One of the main ways the poem speaks' (the Diction?) is through the rhythm. It is slow and unhurried like the footsteps of the people carrying Sir John and like the drum beat at a funeral.  Otherwise there isn't a lot of imagery.  There is the 'struggling moonlight' perhaps an image of their own struggle in Battle.  The words are all short and clear, like a soldiers, and like his own funeral with no pomp though he was a hero.
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It's by David Julien.  Here you go!  http://chantez.online.fr/impression.php?ID=359
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I had to go back and reread the poem to remember it in particular from my high school Lit Class (5 years...  sheesh!).  Anyway, its main theme is basically as everyone has said- a warning that even mankind's greatest works shall eventually crumble to dust.\n\nWithin Temptation does a song on their Mother Earth CD entitled "Never-ending Story" that sums up the main point of Ozymandias nicely with the lyrics, "We'll all be forgotten  |  There's no endless fame".\n\nHowever, we can go into a bit more depth about the secondary themes of hope and rebirth.  In lines 10 through 14, Ozymandias reads as such:\n"'My name is Ozymandias, king of kings:\nLook on my works, ye mighty, and despair!'   \nNothing beside remains: round the decay   \nOf that colossal wreck, boundless and bare,   \nThe lone and level sands stretch far away."\n\nThese lines serve to anchor the somewhat depressing mood, but give infinite hope as well.  Even though King Ozymandias is telling us to despair, for all we do will eventually disappear, he is also telling us to look upon his works as they are in the here and now.\n\nThe boundless sea of sand that was once his great kingdom may seem like it has been destroyed, but in fact Ozymandias has *created* it as his buildings and monuments have crumbled.  Essentially, the poem is commenting that nothing mankind can build will last- but as those things are annihilated they create the soil, and in turn the plants and stone, that generations down the road will use to build their own monuments.  Even though we may die and rot in the present, we are immortal as part of the life cycle that is always recycling into the next incarnation of life.  Who knows, when we eventually croak, we might all come back as daisies!
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You can likely find a summary on amazon.com.  Just put in the book title and/or author -- the publisher's summary should be near the bottom of the page.
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Basically it is a poem of 5 lines and must have a set number of syllables\nThe normaly set is a 5 7 5 7 7 ( each number being the number of sylables in each line)\n\nThese sorces will help
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Just fyi I found the poem its\n"I carry your heart" by E E Cummings
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a short story with a title
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An Analysis of The Harlot's House \n  \n    Oscar Wilde's "The Harlot's House" was written in 1881, towards the latter part of the Victorian era.  This genre is a poem containing 12 stanzas.  The point of view in this piece is from the narrator's perspective early on, the narrative distance moves further distant in the fourth stanza, zooms in, then out again. \n\nThe narrator is walking down a street and pauses, with his companion, "beneath the harlot's house"  (Wilde, Longman p. 2069: 1.3).  In the next two stanzas Wilde transitions to the inside of the house depicting a partygoers atmosphere in "Inside, above the din and fray"  (2.1) and shadows of the figures inside are projected onto the blind (3.3).  This movie projector type visual picture gives this poem a choppy edited effect. \n\n:>peace
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You find plenty of examples of people (most of them amateurs) giving their opinion on this poem simply by using the search engine google.com and search on the text strings "emily dickinson"  and "hope" -- or, better still, "emily dickinson"  and "thing with feathers". \n\nHowever, if you want a link to some REAL literary criticism I suggest you go to the Dickinson pages of the Online Literary Criticism Collection. It's a personal favourite of mine, though perhaps a bit too "academic"  for a school essay. Anyway, here it is: http://www.ipl.org/div/litcrit/bin/litcrit.out.pl?au=dic-61
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"This thematic opposition was complicated by his early and lifelong love for a beautiful Irish terrorist, Maud Gonne. “I was 23 years old when the troubling of my life began,” Yeats writes in his Memoirs. In January 1889 she came to visit him in London, and he wrote: “I had never thought to see in a living woman so great a beauty.” For much of the rest of his life he would remain enamoured of her, and she would reject his proposals with the phrase, “The world should thank me for not marrying you.” She became the subject of his poetry, the reason he needed to write, communicate and succeed. “He wishes for the clothes of heaven” is clearly for her, and more specifically, in “Words,” he points out how he might have given up his entire career as a poet had she been able to understand him. Years later, despite his successful marriage, she was in his mind in lines like those in “After Long Silence,” “young we loved one another and were innocent.”"\n\nThe above extract is taken from the site below and explains the background to Yeats's poem.\nI would take exception to the description "beautiful Irish terrorist" (First of all she wasn't Irish but British)and would instead use "beautiful Irish Freedom fighter.