(Keats) Death
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- Created on: 12-05-19 17:15
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- Death
- To Autumn
- 'o'er-brimmed their clammy cells'
- Use of full words ('bosom'/ 'swell'/ 'plump') creates an image of ripeness
- Idea of satisfaction (abundant atmosphere)
- 'cells' is a medical word (focusing on the microscopic details of nature)
- Alliteration begins harsh but ends soft (atmosphere of release)
- Use of full words ('bosom'/ 'swell'/ 'plump') creates an image of ripeness
- 'gathering swallows twitter in the skies'
- Swallows could represent a physical + spiritual journey (migration)
- Keats is ready to die (next step to find transcen-dence)
- Keats dies of TB in Rome at the age of 25 in 1821
- Keats is ready to die (next step to find transcen-dence)
- Swallows could represent a physical + spiritual journey (migration)
- Keats begins to look outwards instead of just inwards...
- 'o'er-brimmed their clammy cells'
- Ode to a Nightingale
- 'Lethe-wards had sunk'
- 'sunk' lands heavily at the end of the line
- the River Lethe is the river of forgetfulness that souls pass when entering the underworld
- Keats describes his creative process as 'negative capability' (leaving the unknown a mystery)
- POEM OF CONTRAD-ICTIONS
- 'Hippocrene, with beaded bubbles winking at the brim'
- POEM OF CONTRAD-ICTIONS
- Sacred spring belonging to the Greek muses (imbibing poetic inspiration)
- 'Winking' suggests death or inspiration is luring him in
- Plosive 'b' alliteration creates a juddering effect (literally 'nodding' off to sleep)
- Alliteration could also create a heavy effect (gradually falling into his glass + drowning his sorrows)
- Slows the pace
- 'Lethe-wards had sunk'
- Ode to Melancholy
- 'glut thy sorrow on a morning rose'
- 'glut' creates a burdenous/ greedy effect
- Double meaning of 'rose' lifts the line more positively
- 'morning' is symbol of hop/life & 'rose' is a symbol of love
- 'Veiled Melancholy...among her cloudy trophies'
- Oxymoron emphasises idea that though lacking glory - Melancholy is an important part of life
- Keats was painfully aware of it (brother died in 1802 & father died in 1804)
- 'Veiled'/ 'cloudy' creates an obscured effect (sorrow blinds him/ renders him incapable)
- Oxymoron emphasises idea that though lacking glory - Melancholy is an important part of life
- 'glut thy sorrow on a morning rose'
- St Agnes
- 'drowned all in Rhenish... sleeping dragons'
- The family remain sleeping literally + metaphorically
- 'dragons' introduce mythological aspects (damsel in distress)
- Dragons known to be greedy + are slated at the end
- 'still she slept an azure-lidded sleep'
- Sibilance suggests Porphyro is losing her to her dream husband
- Keats favours reality over fantasy (Laments never marrying Fanny Brawne)
- 'azure-lidded' creates a corpse-like image
- 'Azure' is derived from a stone which was powdered into paint during the Renaissance
- The colour was most notably reserved for the Virgin Mary's dress
- 'Azure' is derived from a stone which was powdered into paint during the Renaissance
- Deep blue pigment could also reference the nighttime (the Eve)
- Sibilance suggests Porphyro is losing her to her dream husband
- 'drowned all in Rhenish... sleeping dragons'
- To Autumn
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