La Belle Dame Sans Merci An

.La Belle Dame Sans Merci , .An Advancement Of Learning. And .Roe-Deer., Essay, Research Paper

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spiritual correspondence between man and nature can be illustrated as being a

.spiritual communication. between the two, which is the affect of how they

interact with each other. The use of nature in a way that is both beneficial to

man and nature can be described as a harmonious spiritual correspondence. The poems I have analysed, .La Belle Dame Sans Merci., .An Advancement of Learning. and .Roe-Deer., have their focal point

revolving around encounters between man and nature. Each poem is unique to one

another due to these differences; the time they were written, their themes, the

representations of man and nature used, the rhythm and rhythmic pattern of

each, the imagery used and lastly the similes and metaphors. These differences

will allow me to explore the concept of a spiritual correspondence between man

and nature in each poem, and thus justify these poems as being good or bad

representations of Sir Paul Harvey.s comment..

. There is a definite likeness

between these poems, as they are all thematically linked. An example of this is

that in each, there is some sort of conflict between man and natures

representations i.e. the knight and the faery, the boy and the rat, and also

the man and the deer. Beyond the words of the poem, an on-going interaction

between man and nature can be found. In .La Belle Dame Sans

Merci., this interaction results in man, or the knight in this case, losing out

in a spiritual conflict to nature, or the faery.s child, .And I awoke and found

me here, On the cold hill.s side.. The quote itself actually is a good example

of how Keats brings about a cold feel to the poem at this point, which is

ironic as we associate cold temperatures with loss. However, this conflict takes

a new twist in the Heaney poem, .An Advancement of Learning.. This time the

conflict goes one step further and is ironically portrayed in a militaristic

style with .I established a dreaded bridgehead. and .This terror (the

rat).retreated.. and was actually won by man, or the boy in this case, .He

trained on me. I stared him out.. This is also a good example of Heaney showing

that man, in this poem, is dominant over nature. .This idea of man winning the conflict brought over from .An

Advancement of Learning. is not the main feature in .Roe-deer., as here a

conflict ceases to exist. In this poem, it is the outcome of this on-going

conflict that is affecting nature at this point in time. This conflict, which

for man took a new turn after the industrial revolution, has resulted in man

and nature living separate from one another even though they are symbiotic. In

this poem, nature is trying to get back to man, as .The deer had come for me..

But is faced with the barrier, which is symbolised by the car, and it seems as

if man, who has manipulated and corrupted nature by now, does not want to.

Instead, it is the deer which dictate nature.s position to man, as they .ducked

through the hedge.away downhill over a snow-lonely field.. So already I can find some

examples of the spiritual correspondence between man and nature in all three of

these poems, which are all thematically linked by this on-going conflict/

correspondence between man and nature. Nature and man.s

representations in each of the poems are all quite different, but all have a

part in the basic story of this on-going interaction between man and nature.

.La Belle Dame Sans Merci., being the earliest of the three poems, has the

.knight-at-arms., a chivalrous character, and the .full beautiful faery.s

child., a fantasy character, as nature and man.s representations, as the whole

poem has been based upon a fantasy story. This typical style of writing, using

fantasy stories to illustrate something, is shows that this poem has a strong

sense of spiritual correspondence between man and nature, as Keats has had to

dream this poem up, whereas in .An Advancement of Learning., or even

.Roe-Deer., the poets may have actually been through these experiences, and

these poems could just be showing their emotions at the time. And therefore, it

is true to say that .La Belle Dame Sans Merci. is a natural example of a poem

that has been based around a spiritual correspondence between man and nature.

Also, the fantasy style poem brings about a strong contrast with the style used

in the more recent poems of Hughes and Heaney, who have chosen to use more

realistic representations in their poems with the boy and the man, and the rat

and the deer, and therefore demonstrates how these poems might have been based

upon real-life events. The faery in .La Belle Dame

Sans Merci. is illustrated in romantic notion as being a thing of natural

beauty otherwise, as it would have to be for this poem to work, as the knight

would never have fallen in love. Therefore,

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