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Please Answer both following parts:
Part One:
Persona: A dramatic character, distinguished from the poet, who is the speaker of a poem.
It is possible for a poem to have more than one persona present as well.
Keep in mind the speaker of a poem is usually not the poet themselves, but rather a character they create to speak through instead. Many students erroneously say that “the poet is speaking,” but normally the poet uses a persona to speak through. So you might call the speaker of the poem a narrator or a persona, but rarely is it the poet speaking directly to you.
This week I would like you to take a close look at the famous poem “La Belle Dame sans Merci.” Read it carefully. Read it several times if you have to. Then I would like you to tell me how many personas are present in the poem. Identify, to the best of your ability, who the personas are based on careful reading.
Here is the poem: La Belle Dame sans Merci.docx
Please write a complete post in which you identify how many personas are in the poem, and describe them. Please use quotes (use line numbers or stanza numbers to indicate where your quotes came from) for backup and to help explain your answers.
Part Two:
Iisten to the song by the Beatles and compare to the poem by Keats.
In the song “Norwegian Wood” you will hear the singer tell about a woman he met and what happened to him during his time with her. Read the lyrics carefully. Similarly, Keats’ poem tells about a woman the speaker met and the time he spent with her. Consider that a lot of time separates the poem and the song, so though the language may be different, the themes of having loved and lost are still the same. There are many similarities and differences to the poem by Keats. I would like you to identify some of them, especially focusing on the idea of tone that you read about this week. Do the song and the poem have a similar tone? Why or why not? Explain your answer.
Your response should be 1 1/2 to 2 pages double spaced.
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La Belle Dame sans Merci: A Ballad
By John Keats
O what can ail thee, knight-at-arms,
Alone and palely loitering?
The sedge has withered from the lake,
And no birds sing.
O what can ail thee, knight-at-arms,
So haggard and so woe-begone?
The squirrel’s granary is full,
And the harvest’s done.
I see a lily on thy brow,
With anguish moist and fever-dew,
And on thy cheeks a fading rose
Fast withereth too.
I met a lady in the meads,
Full beautiful—a faery’s child,
Her hair was long, her foot was light,
And her eyes were wild.
I made a garland for her head,
And bracelets too, and fragrant zone;
She looked at me as she did love,
And made sweet moan
I set her on my pacing steed,
And nothing else saw all day long,
For sidelong would she bend, and sing
A faery’s song.
She found me roots of relish sweet,
And honey wild, and manna-dew,
And sure in language strange she said—
‘I love thee true’.
She took me to her Elfin grot,
And there she wept and sighed full sore,
And there I shut her wild wild eyes
With kisses four.
And there she lullèd me asleep,
And there I dreamed—Ah! woe betide!—
The latest dream I ever dreamt
On the cold hill side.
I saw pale kings and princes too,
Pale warriors, death-pale were they all;
They cried—‘La Belle Dame sans Merci
Thee hath in thrall!’
I saw their starved lips in the gloam,
With horrid warning gapèd wide,
And I awoke and found me here,
On the cold hill’s side.
And this is why I sojourn here,
Alone and palely loitering,
Though the sedge is withered from the lake,
And no birds sing.
“Norwegian Wood” by The Beatles
I once had a girl
Or should I say she once had me
She showed me her room
Isn’t it good Norwegian wood?
She asked me to stay
And she told me to sit anywhere
So I looked around
And I noticed there wasn’t a chair
I sat on a rug biding my time
Drinking her wine
We talked until two and then she said
“It’s time for bed”
She told me she worked
In the morning and started to laugh
I told her I didn’t
And crawled off to sleep in the bath
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And when I awoke I was alone
This bird had flown
So I lit a fire
Isn’t it good Norwegian wood?
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