A comparison between Keats
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.
There is also a definite rhyming pattern, which is smooth and fast. In conclusion to this essay, I do find Sir Paul Harvey's comment on the fascination with spiritual correspondence, reminiscent of not only Keats' era, but also of Hughes and Heaney, as these three poems show an on-going spiritual and physical encounter between man and nature, which all adds to the depth of the spiritual correspondence between man and nature. 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. Therefore, the use of imagery in this poem has been used in a negative way; first of all where the dialogue occurs, and then where the knight is seeing 'La Belle Dame Sans Merci's' previous victims, "Pale warriors, death-pale were they all. Again, in the writing the dominance of nature can be found which is typical of the era it was written in. Behind all of the imagery in this poem can be found another development in the correspondence, as "I shut her wild, wild eyes, with kisses for", which demonstrates man's interaction with nature. 'Roe-deer' shows man and nature being brought together by co-incidence, or by the deer's efforts. " which is quite different to the previous poems where the spiritual correspondence is represented by a conflict between the two forms. ing the conflict brought over from 'An Advancement of Learning' is not the main feature in 'Roe-deer', as here a conflict ceases to exist. However, after nature realises mans arrogance to unite, the deer run off and "the snow took them.
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