3- Keats: OTaN

Question 1

‘drowsy numbness pains,’ (1)

Answer 1

• in open, est oxymoronic conflict ‘drowsy numbness pains’ b/w blissful exist + inevitability of death
• paradoxical avenue of cognition = profound state of mental torment, joy = heighten sense of mort

Question 2

‘light-winged Dryad of the trees.’ (1)

Answer 2

• precede interlude of iambic tetrameter in L8, prosodic use of IP = NG arrival, personify as ‘light winged Dryad of the trees’
• elevate NG, speaker rev toward it + solace in nat
• shift in metre _ sig of nat in imagination + articulate despairs

Question 3

‘With beaded bubbles winking at the brim’ (2)

Answer 3

• cons of effects of intox, express desire 2 elude inev of death, depiction of ‘beaded bubbles winking at the brim’
• plosive alit enhance rhythmic hypnotic of line, reinforce mystical + supernat of death + inesc
• ephemerality of ‘bub’ mirror fleeting nat of life transient joy = fade

Question 4

‘Where youth grows pale, and spectre-thin, and dies;’ (3)

Answer 4

• Vivid imagery of death + decay, desc how ‘youth grow pale’
• Polysyndeton = convey stage of death, rein. Excruciate inevit of mort

Question 5

‘I will fly to thee […] but on the viewless wings of poesy’ (4)

Answer 5

• Reject use of alc 2 esc shackles of income death, turn 2 empowerment of poetry to bolster trans, as he ‘will fly’
• Assimilation of poet w/ NG, emph yearn 4 immort, utilise written work as avenue 2 transcend 2 divine plane of imperish life/ Desire reflect career as vate poet, prophetic responsibilities

Question 6

‘But, in embalmed darkness […] the grass, the thicket, and the fruit-tree wild’ (5)

Answer 6

• Delineate transformative understand, thru juxt of being able to vivid exp ‘grass..’ whilst remain in state of ‘embalmed dark’
• Cataloguing + synaes imag, strengthen power of imagination as comprehend intric + myst of NG/ parallel of specific desc of surround while impaired w/ blind + deaf, reinforce capability of imagin

Question 7

‘I have been half in love with easeful death’ (6)

Answer 7

• Neverend oxymoron state of exist, rein thru confession that he has been ‘half in love with easeful death.’
• Personification of death symbolise embrace of neg cap, as accept inev of death w/o search 4 greater understand

Question 8

‘Still wouldst thou sing, and I have ears in vain – / To thy high requiem, became a sod’ (6)

Answer 8

• Move away from grad embrace of death, another volta emerge signify contemplative realisation that ‘still wouldst thou sing’
• Apostrophe, directly address NG + hypn melody, _ underly melancholy w/ implication of mortality/ h/e rather than morn loss of vit, lament inability 2 listen 2 NG

Question 9

‘Thou wast not born for death, immortal bird!’ (7)

Answer 9

• Realise X share blissful ig as NG, apostrophise bird, claim that ‘thou wast not born for death, immortal bird!’
• Deification of NG align w/ Ks’ possible envy of freewill + oblivion/ exclam frag highlight despair + disillusionment w/ bird, allude 2 NG literary immort live vic thru poet + unique song

Question 10

‘was it a vision, or a waking dream?/ Fled is that music: - Do I wake or sleep?’ (8)

Answer 10

• End temp immort exist, revivied from reverie, questions ‘was it a vision, or a waking dream?’
• Cons of ‘dream’ and ‘sleep,’ demonst how nat occur state of unconsc, power by imagination, enable endless possibilities/ neg cap of K long 4 connection w nat, yet inability 2 gain full understand showcase profound Rom reality of inscrutable essence of nat