Keats Themes
- Created by: Eliza B.
- Created on: 20-05-19 08:34
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- Keats
- Escapism
- Ode to a Nightinglae
- Escape in death
- La Belle Dame
- Escape in another person/love
- On the Sea
- Nature as an escape from industrial world
- Ode to a Nightinglae
- Nature/ Beauty
- On the Sea
- Nature as an escape from industrial world
- Ode on Melancholy
- Beauty and nature as a cure to Melancholy. Uses cycles in nature to show that melancholy will pass
- To Autumn
- Celebration of nature's beauty, even at the colder, more bleak times of year
- On the Sea
- Mythology
- Ode on a Grecian urn
- Mythology to question own mortality/the way meanings change with thime
- Chapman's Homer
- Idolisation of myth/classic literature
- Ode to Psyche
- Desire to preserve myth in changing society
- Ode on a Grecian urn
- Mortality
- To Autmn
- Uses metaphor of Nature to explore mortality
- Ode to a Nightingale
- Death as an escape
- Ode on a Grecian Urn
- Immortality of vase emphasises speakers mortality
- To Autmn
- Pain/Pleasure
- ode on Melancholy
- Suggestion that melancholy must be endured to find pleasure, compares passing of emotion to cycles in nature
- To Autmn
- Appreciates nature's beauty with knowledge that for Keats it is coming to an end
- La Belle Dame
- Woman first provides escape from bleak reality, but he becomes lured in and trapped by her- Keats' view of love?
- ode on Melancholy
- Love/Women
- Ode on a Grecian Urn
- Expresses longing for a love as eternal as the one between pictures on vase
- La Belle Dame
- Lover leads him out of/helps him escape harsh reality
- Bright Star...
- Keats wishes to have a love as permanent as the star
- Ode on a Grecian Urn
- Escapism
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