Bright star and the works of John Keats. Flashcards
THESIS (5)
- All philosophy is inherently conjecture.
- For human experiences all answers are equal
- Value is in how conversations and participants enrich each other.
- By understanding multiple texts taking part in that conversation we are enriched by it.
- The works of John Keats and Jane Campion are both stills from a recording. Better viewed together.
First paragraph: STATEMENT. (5)
- The Christmas dinner scene, most disparate scene.
- Demonstrates an adapters influence over the ideas of the text they are adapting.
- By reading both we can understand Campions ideas better by understanding what she changed.
- This also gives us better insight into Keats by providing a second opinion on his works.
- This is us being enriched by understanding how Campion has enriched the conversation.
First paragraph: TECHNIQUE. (5)
- Fanny surrounded by warm colour pallet, but rest of frame is a colder pallet.
- Fanny framed in door at middle of shot, outside has harsh straight lines from fence and bricks.
- Innuendo makes the Keats’ affection for her even clearer and confirms his sexual interest in her.
- Stumbles during the poem, while looking at Fanny.
- Demonstrates Campion’s authority over the ideas surrounding the poem.
First paragraph: EXAMPLE. (2)
When I have fears that I may cease to be:
“I sit alone and think, till love and fame do nothingness sink”
Bright Star:
“Huge cloudy symbols of romance”
First paragraph: EXPLANATION. (2)
- They emphasis different parts of the novel for different effects.
- Campion emphasis a romantic line, while Keats emphasizes a nihilistic line.
First paragraph: LINK. (5)
- Campion uses Keats as a tool to enrich her ideas
- rather than as a source for them.
- She gets that Keats’ ideas are conjecture, and uses her influence over the adaptation accordingly.
- Understanding her use of Keats offers insight into both her and Keats’ ideas.
- This is us taking part in the textual conversation, and being enriched by our understanding of it.
Second paragraph: STATEMENT. (5)
- Due to the time gap between John Keats and Jane Campion
- The conversation is one sided
- Campion fills the resultant gap in the conversation with her feminist ideals.
- By understanding how both fill gaps we can better understand the history of these ideas.
- Trace the ideas back to their ancient source.
Second paragraph: TECHNIQUE. (5)
- Campion explores toxic masculinity through the characterization of Charles Brown.
- Camera placed where Brown would be standing, looking over Keats shoulder towards Fanny.
- He is punished when she storms off.
- Keats uses pipes as a metaphor for love
- Melodies unheard is metaphor for pining.
Second paragraph: EXAMPLE (4)
“She can’t speak because she only knows how to flirt and sew.” - Brown
“John, there are one or two of her kind in every fashionable drawing room of this city, gasping over skirt lengths.” - Brown
“Heard melodies are sweet, but those unheard Are sweeter;” - Ode to a Grecian urn.
“Not to the sensual ear, but, more endear’d, Pipe to the spirit ditties of no tone:” - Ode to a Grecian urn.
Second paragraph: EXPLANATION. (4)
- Fanny rejects the very idea that she has to justify her part in Brown’s unrequited affections.
- Brown views fanny as solely an object of sexual desire, he denies affections when challenged.
- Both represent unrequited affections in very different ways.
- Keats imbues the Grecian urn with romantic ideals just as Campion imbues Keats with feminist ones.
Second paragraph: LINK. (5)
- Difference in time & culture
- Render ideas obsolete, demanding new ones to fill the gap in the conversation.
- Campion introduces feminist ideas to fill the gap
- Keats fills the gap with romanticist ideals.
- By reading and understanding both it creates an understanding of the path of ideas back to Greece.
Third paragraph: STATEMENT. (4)
- The context of a creator influences the perspectives they bring to a conversation.
- This is especially clear when it comes to how each text shows Keats’ death.
- Campion depicted it as incredibly impactful.
- Keats said as much, if not more by saying nothing.
Third paragraph: TECHNIQUE. (5)
- Keats’ epitaph was short, and insisted he would never be famous.
- Final scene of Bright Star mirrors earlier poetry lesson scene.
- Fanny standing in the hallway, brighter colour palette, Fanny faces camera, moves into house.
- Final scene, nearly monochromatic, colour palette, Fanny shown from behind, she walks into the snow.
- Keats is the main difference between two scenes.
Third paragraph: EXAMPLE. (3)
“Here lies one whose name was writ in water” - John Keats’ epitaph
“Thou wast not born for death, immortal Bird!
No hungry generations tread thee down;” - Ode to a nightingale
“The voice I hear this passing night was heard
In ancient days by emperor and clown:” - Ode to a nightingale
Third paragraph: EXPLANATION. (4)
- Keats’ asserts that no one would care what he had to say about his own death.
- Campion frames Keats’ as making the world around him into a darker place.
- First quote in ode calls death a feature of life but one that shouldn’t define it.
- Ode to a nightingale isn’t lamenting death, but saying life shouldn’t be defined by its end.
