(Keats) Society
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- Created on: 19-05-19 17:16
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- Society
- To Autumn
- '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'
- Last line of each stanza is longer (literally overflowing)
- '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)
- Jeffrey Cox: '****** as a power of social transformation'
- Idea of satisfaction (abundant atmosphere)
- Keats begins to look outwards instead of just inwards...
- 'gathering swallows twitter in the skies'
- Ode to Psyche
- I wandered through a forest thoughtlessly'
- 'forest' to 'gardener'
- Keats's relationship with Fanny Brawne never became a reality
- Keats wants to lure Fanny/Psyche into a managed/ controlled environment
- Wants to tame/understand women (never settled down to marry)
- Keats wants to lure Fanny/Psyche into a managed/ controlled environment
- Keats's relationship with Fanny Brawne never became a reality
- Tame image suggests he is overwhelmedby women (as he is by nature)
- John Jones: incapable of 'jostling in the real world'
- A forest is typically a symbol of the subcons-cious
- Fricatives create a suffocating effect (overcome by internal thoughts)
- 'A casement ope at night'
- 'A casement high'
- Godly status + angelic quality (unreachable e.g. Fanny)
- Also an image of entrapment
- Godly status + angelic quality (unreachable e.g. Fanny)
- Only open at night (limited freedom + only observing society/ reality)
- Fears he will not be able to experience the world in time (experience of death)
- Keats was painfully aware of his own mortality (his brother died in 1802 + mother in 1810)
- Fears he will not be able to experience the world in time (experience of death)
- 'A casement high'
- 'forest' to 'gardener'
- I wandered through a forest thoughtlessly'
- St Agnes
- 'A casement high'
- Godly status + angelic quality (unreachable e.g. Fanny)
- Also an image of entrapment
- Godly status + angelic quality (unreachable e.g. Fanny)
- 'silken hushed and chaste'
- Women likened to materialistic qualities (objectified/ shallow)
- Only sees outward beauty
- Keats claims he would not spend 'anytime with ladies unless they are handsome'
- Only sees outward beauty
- Sensuous sibilance imitates the rustle of silk (creates a claustrophobic effect)
- Keats to Fanny - you are 'cruel to have so entrammelledme, so destroyed my freedom'
- Menand: 'a horror of female sexuality'
- Keats to Fanny - you are 'cruel to have so entrammelledme, so destroyed my freedom'
- Women likened to materialistic qualities (objectified/ shallow)
- 'tongueless nightingale should swell her throat in vain'
- Women are voiceless in Keat's poetry (submissive ideal)
- Sibilance also emphasises inability (OR Keats unconsciously silencing women in poetry)
- Reference to Philomel (***** by barbarous king & tongue removed)
- Women are voiceless in Keat's poetry (submissive ideal)
- 'A casement high'
- To Autumn
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