Eve of st. agnes

The love of Porphyro for Madeline is poetically beautiful and has a romantic storyline. Both lovers are of moderately noble birth but their families are currently at odds, as in Shakespeare’s “Romeo and Juliet.” Porphyro thinks of Madeline as an ideal and sees her as a “seraph fair”(Keats 276). Because their families would never allow them to marry, Porphyro envisions Madeline as something not only highly attractive but also as an unattainable challenge for him. Porphyro’s love presents and creates Madeline as the perfect woman; this is evident in his words and responses. He sneaks into the house “with heart on fire / For Madeline”(75-6). He is practically swooning for her, as he prays, “’Thou art my heaven, and I thine eremite. / Open thine eyes, for meek St. Agnes’ sake, / Or I shall drowse beside thee, so my soul doth ache’”(277-9). As she finally wakes, she seems like an angelic vision to him, and “Upon his knees h

“How changed thou art! How pallid, chill, and drear!

Those looks immortal, those complainings dear!

Give me that voice again, my Porphyro,

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