Persona Beetles

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.