(Keats) Art
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- Created on: 19-05-19 18:32
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- Art
- Ode to a Grecian Urn
- 'marble men and maidens'
- Soft alliteration creates a majestic effect (mimics smoothness of stone)
- Imagery of grecian temples (pillars holding up society)
- also emphasises class distinctions
- 'pipe to the spirit ditties of no tone'
- 'spirit' creates a mystical effect (negative capability)
- Keats' imagining of the past, present & future is better than the reality
- Keats was influenced by Spenser's 'The Faerie Queene' (epic poem which emphasised mysticism & description
- John Jones: incapable of 'jostling in the real world'
- Keats was influenced by Spenser's 'The Faerie Queene' (epic poem which emphasised mysticism & description
- Keats: 'what the imagination sees as beauty, must be truth'
- Art is a form of enlightenment
- Keats' imagining of the past, present & future is better than the reality
- Sharp consonants of 'pipe' & 'ditties' creates a jovial effect (primitive language)
- Line begins musically but ends with a lack of sound (poem of paradoxes)
- Never able to capture 'pure' art in its real form (escapes him)
- Keats dies of TB in Rome at the age of 25 in 1821
- Never able to capture 'pure' art in its real form (escapes him)
- Line begins musically but ends with a lack of sound (poem of paradoxes)
- 'spirit' creates a mystical effect (negative capability)
- Canvas of time
- 'marble men and maidens'
- Chapman's Homer
- 'deep-browed' to 'watcher of the skies'
- 'deep-browed' creates a lost/ stationary effect (severe)
- Before Chapman's translation, Homer was inaccessible/ too severe
- 'skies' creates an expansive effect (world has opened up to him)
- However, 'watcher' suggests he is still an observer only (never a part of society)
- Written in 1916, when Keats leaves his medical profession to pursue poetry
- Headmaster, Cowden Clarke introduced Keats to literature & poetry
- However, 'watcher' suggests he is still an observer only (never a part of society)
- 'deep-browed' creates a lost/ stationary effect (severe)
- 'New planet', 'peak' & 'Cortez'
- Words of discovery emphasises the importance of at/ literature to Keats (epiphany)
- Menand: 'union of joy and pain'
- Keats mistook 'Cortez' for the man who first saw the Pacific
- Written in a state of passion/ excitement ('wild surmise')
- Words of discovery emphasises the importance of at/ literature to Keats (epiphany)
- 'deep-browed' to 'watcher of the skies'
- Ode to Psyche
- 'A casement ope at night'
- Wants to trap the perfect embodiment of true love in his imagination
- Fears he will not be able to experience the world in time (experience of death)
- Psyche, was the lover of Eros (survived Hell to be with him)
- Keats: 'what the imagination sees as beauty, must be truth'
- Fears he will not be able to experience the world in time (experience of death)
- Wants to trap the perfect embodiment of true love in his imagination
- 'I wandered in a forest thoughtlessly'
- 'forest' to 'gardener'
- Tame image suggests he is overwhelmed by beauty (craves understanding)
- Keats wants to lure 'love' into a managed/ controlled environment
- Tame image suggests he is overwhelmed by beauty (craves understanding)
- A forest is typically a symbol of the subcons-cious
- Fricatives create a suffocating effect (overcome by internal thoughts)
- Keats uses a natural metaphor to describe his tumultuous thoughts (living in mythology)
- Unable to see /experience reality (which is better)
- Forest is used by Romantic poets as a place to uncover a woman's secrets
- Jeffrey Cox: '****** as a power of social transformation'
- 'forest' to 'gardener'
- 'A casement ope at night'
- Ode to a Grecian Urn
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