Readers Have Responded Differently to Being Told That the Story Happened Long Ago. How Do You Respond?

Readers have responded differently to being told that the story happened commodious ag one and only(a). How do you respond?Initially The evening of St Agnes is set in a medieval flow long ago, which you can determine from the distinct use of archaic language opinions of valor and patriarchy are evoked at the use of this time period thus the ongoing melodic theme of the supernatural, demonstrated by Madelines inviolable belief in The eve of St Agnes, serves to induce in the reader thoughts of an piece immortal life, an idea that is further established through the way in which Madeline and Porphyro are able to escape the castle full of people who would shoot down and abandon the couple, which one would think to be impossible.Furthermore Keats describes the two focal characters as phantoms of which one interpretation could be that life goes on and that last is a mere inconvenience, which again further adds to the concept of immortality in the poem. The references to supernatu ral folklore elfin grot and faery land conceptualise the idea of Porphyro and Madeline idealistically untouchable. However, the final stanza, in which the beadsman dies, destroys the immortality image that Keats had previously built up reminding the reader that death is for everyone.Furthermore, this idealism entering into realism is perhaps indicative of awaking from a phantasmagorical state in which the reader becomes more aware of the danger that Madeline is possibly in. Linking to this fear of Madeline that is newly instilled in the reader is the abrupt and ironic electric arc of love after the forty first stanza, which demonstrates the idea that love itself was long ago.The fact that previously in the Eve of St Agnes Porphyros total was on fire for Madeline leading him to risk his capture and death for her initially provided a positive image for the reader allowe one to trust his character, so far the forty first stanza utilizes a significant amount of cadaverous resourc efulness through the Baron dreaming of many a woe and the idea of Angela dying with meagre face deform which simply dismisses the whole theme of love and is perhaps representative of Madelines resignation to her fate every run away with Porphyro or stay and be disgraced and dilapidated by her family that is typical of a patriarchal society. The abruptness with which love is fired is a dramatic conclusion to the poem that leaves a foreboding air travel as to Madelines fate, and it is this ash old atmosphere that perhaps attempts to capture the smothered and nightmard existence that women experienced in medieval times owing to being treated as possessions by men, another interpretation is that Madeline and Porphyros fleeing into the storm is them escaping these social conventions leaving behind the dark, cold world. The barons dreams of witch and demon and large coffin-work are perhaps symbolic of Madeline and Porphyro as characters, foretelling the formidable end that is to com e to the couple, or more principally maybe the failure of escaping from patriarchal society. The negative outcome of her escape with Porphyro serves to fight down the so called escape that the two had from the castle. And in turn this is suggestive that whilst one can attempt to escape social confines and convictions such as St Agnes herself attempted these attempts always fail eventually, much in the way that St Agnes was after burned for heresy.