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FLANNAN ISLE AND LA BELLE SANS MERCI COMPARE AND CONTRAST THE POEMS FLANNAN ISLE AND LA BELLE SANS MERCI WITH PARTICULAR REFERENCE TO THE SUPERNATURAL QUALITIES AND THE POETIC TECHNIQUES OF EACH POEM. For this essay I will be comparing the two poems with their poetic techniques and the experience of the supernatural in the poems. I will also discuss about the similarities of the two poems. Ballad: a relatively short narrative poem, written to be sung. Ballads tell stories of love, death, the supernatural, or a combination of these. The ballad stanza usually consists of four lines. "Flannan Isle" tells the story of to three men who are lighthouse keepers on an island called "Flannan Isle," the title of the poem, where the light of the lighthouse is not shining. The poem starts of at night; this trivial introduction gives an epigrammatic feeling of the supernatural. The second verse then begins...

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