(Keats) Imagination
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- Created on: 11-04-19 19:20
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- Transcendence
- Ode to Psyche
- 'forest' to 'gardener'
- Wants to tame/understand women (never settled down to marry)
- Can't own Fanny Browne in reality (so has to capture her in his imagination)
- Keats wants to lure her into a managed/ controlled environment
- A forest is typically a symbol of the subcons-cious
- His ideas of mortality have forced him to withdraw into his own mind
- Keats wandered 'thoughtlessly' (lost)
- Fricatives create a suffocating effect (overcome by internal thoughts)
- Keats to Fanny - you are 'cruel to have so entrammelledme, so destroyed my freedom'
- Fricatives create a suffocating effect (overcome by internal thoughts)
- Wants to tame/understand women (never settled down to marry)
- 'forest' to 'gardener'
- Ode to a Nightingale
- 'Lethe-wards had sunk'
- 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)
- John Jones: incapable of 'jostling in the real world'
- Keats describes his creative process as 'negative capability' (leaving the unknown a mystery)
- 'sunk' lands heavily at the end of the line
- POEM OF CONTRAD-ICTIONS
- the River Lethe is the river of forgetfulness that souls pass when entering the underworld
- 'Hippocrene, with beaded bubbles winking at the brim'
- 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
- POEM OF CONTRAD-ICTIONS
- Sacred spring belonging to the Greek muses (imbibing poetic inspiration)
- 'Lethe-wards had sunk'
- St Agnes
- 'silken hushed and chaste'
- Sensuous sibilance imitates the rustle of silk (creates a claustrophobic effect)
- Women likened to materialistic qualities (objectified/ shallow)
- Only sees outward beauty
- Keats claims he would not spend 'anytime with ladies unless they are handsome'
- Menand: 'A horror of female sexuality'
- Keats claims he would not spend 'anytime with ladies unless they are handsome'
- Only sees outward beauty
- 'silken hushed and chaste'
- To Autumn
- 'o'er-brimmed their clammy cells'
- '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
- Idea of satisfaction (abundant atmosphere)
- Romanticism (artistic/ literary movement which developed a deep love for nature & the supernatural)
- Idea of satisfaction (abundant atmosphere)
- Last line of each stanza is longer (literally overflowing)
- 'cells' is a medical word (focusing on the microscopic details of nature)
- Keats begins to look outwards instead of just inwards...
- '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
- Like Autumn he is hung between Summer & Winter (life and death)
- Keats is ready to die (next step to find transcen-dence)
- Swallows could represent a physical + spiritual journey (migration)
- 'o'er-brimmed their clammy cells'
- Ode to Melancholy
- 'glut thy sorrow on a morning rose'
- Double meaning of 'rose' lifts the line more positively
- 'morning' is symbol of hop/life & 'rose' is a symbol of love
- Thomas Wright: 'the union of joy and pain'
- 'morning' is symbol of hop/life & 'rose' is a symbol of love
- 'glut' creates a burdenous/ greedy effect
- Double meaning of 'rose' lifts the line more positively
- 'Veiled Melancholy...among her cloudy trophies'
- '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
- Keats was painfully aware of it (brother died in 1802 & father died in 1804)
- 'glut thy sorrow on a morning rose'
- Ode to Psyche
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