Using Your Knowledge Of Stylistics, Explore Verses Xxx To Xlii Of The Eve Of St Agnes. Consider Also The Extract And To What Extent You Think The Critical Opinion Casts Light On Your Understanding Of The Text.
Keats' ‘The Eve of St Agnes' explores forbidden love, and the belief that has become encompassed in this. With Porphyro being prevented from seeing Madeline due to a previous feud, she must believe that their love will become somehow fulfilled – and this is why she appears to participate in this romantic superstition of St. Agnes. Stanza XXXIV, describing Porphyro as "the vision of her sleep", appears to confirm Keats' belief in the romantic ideal of St. Agnes, yet this is quickly dashed – "There was a painful change, that nigh expell'd/The blisses of her dream so pure and deep". Porphyro can never live up to the heightened expectations developed in the dreams of Madeline, since as the critical extract details, Madeline prefers "her own forever absent dream-representation of [Porphyro's] voice and identity". Porphyro finds it impossible to recreate the "looks immortal" and "complainings dear" of her dream, and this therefore foreshadows the "eternal woe" that she will suffer in a......
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