(1) Compose a paper on the following topic;

(2) create a youtube video of "Ode on a Grecian Urn"

1. Find three Pre-Raphaelite paintings that were inspired by "La Belle Dame Sans Merci" and compare and contrast the artists' interpretations of the poem. You might want to choose paintings done in different years to see how representations of gender reflect a society in a given time period. Some of the questions you should address in your paper are the following:

What part of the poem does the painter choose to represent?

What part does he or she omit?

What cultural beliefs do the representations of male or female characters reveal about that period's gender ideology or gender constructs?

You should include the interpretation of at least one art historian (a different one for each one of the paintings, three total) for each of the paintings you discuss. Do not use online sources unless they are websites on a particular artist. You may use either books or articles devoted to that artist and the painting you have chosen. You may also use interpretations of the painting that you find in the website Smart History. Look it up under Art History.

Include small copies of the paintings at the end of your paper and refer to them, as well as throughout the paper etc.

Your paper should not be a reiteration of the ideas we have discussed during the course; it should develop instead new connections. Read carefully the details and images in the poems and relate them to the concepts you have chosen.

You must include in parenthesis the name of the author even when paraphrasing his/her ideas. Paraphrasing someone else's ideas without acknowledging the author in your text where you paraphrase (rather than in Works Cited) is considered Plagiarism

2. A YouTube Video of "Ode on a Grecian Urn"

You must find an article or a chapter in a book that discusses the poem and justifies your choice of the images or the music you have chosen. You must begin the assignment with a summary of the article or chapter you have chosen and the complete citation for the source (Author, title etc). You must find photos or paintings which capture the emotion or the idea Keats conveys in a stanza and justify your choice. Those of you who play an instrument or are music majors or minors may choose the music for the video. Others who are tech savvy may choose to put everything together.