La Belle Dame sans Merci - teaching resource

La Belle Dame sans Merci by John Keats  

La Belle Dame sans Merci is a GCSE teaching resource made up of a 40-slide PowerPoint presentation with 3 accompanying worksheets. It has been produced for the Edexcel GCSE English Literature Poetry Anthology and contains an assortment of teaching ideas and activities for students of all abilities:

- An introduction to the poem

- Analysis of La Belle Dame sans Merci by John Keats  

- A copy of the poem and consolidation of understanding activities

- Exploring how Keats uses structure and form for effect

- Studying the imagery used in La Belle Dame sans Merci

- How and why Keats uses poetic techniques such as metaphor, repetition and onomatopoeia 

- Language analysis - word choice and vocabulary

- The key themes of La Belle Dame sans Merci

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