Bright Star S2

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Thesis

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Comparative analysis of John Keats oeuvre and Jane Campions ‘Bright Star’ highlights the resonant and dissonant conversations between, whereby challenge values and perspectives through audience nostalgia for antecedent romantic and classical devices.

Question 2

S2

Answer 2

Romantic tenets celebrating nature’s catharsis permeate Keats’ “Ode to a Nightingale”, whereby the poet constructs a dissonant inversion of contextual theoretical discussions examining the sublime, challenging to a moderate extent notions of mortality, legacy, and artistic immortality.

Question 3

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Edmund burke 1757 essay ‘On the Sublime and Beautiful’

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“whatever is in any sort terrible, […] is a source of the sublime; […] productive of the strongest emotion which the mind is capable of feeling.”

Question 4

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Romantics flocked…

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overwhelming sensory, , inspired by emotional paradoxes of fear and desire, in ODE

Question 5

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“light winged dryad of the trees”

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romantic notion ‘aesthetic medication’ , “melodious plot” eases pain

Question 6

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(after melodious plot) thus Introduced…

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negative capability, speaker whilst luxuriating in song, contemplates “now more than ever seems it rich to die.”

Question 7

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Antithetical exploration mortality in…

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aesthetic medication - crafts nightingale as symbolic vehicle shows ephemerality and immortality to hypnotised aud.

Question 8

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Dissonant with sublime….

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leads to paradigm inversion, beauty inspires existentialism

Question 9

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Following stanza repudiates…

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whereby archaic nouns “heard in ancient days by emperor and clown” reinforces longevity of artistic expression, ability to transcending and immortal for itself and poet

Question 10

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(Kappel, 1978)

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“oppressive thoughts of death and the dying world of men naturally bring to the poet’s mind […] the deathless ontological state of the nightingale.” (Kappel, 1978)

Question 11

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Nightingale symbolises…

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artist, fulfils expression and builds legacy, transcends death “immortal bird”.

Question 12

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BS…

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resonates with Negative capability

Question 13

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Symbol alluded in garden…

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diegetic songs and environment wide shots evoking multisensory awe, natural sublime like “white hawthorne” of “summer eves” ODE

Question 14

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Keats embedded in treetops…

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alludes to bird and symbolic elevates to ‘immortal bird’

Question 15

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Following scene, diegetic quotes =

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directors intersection

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Medium Fanny shots…

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“To cease upon the midnight with no pain while thou art pouring forth thy soul” = fanny as sublime inspiration unreachable magnanimous force of nature

Question 17

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Regardless of romantic subtext…

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Campion proves hypothesis, film 200 years post mortem

Question 18

conclusion

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The intertextual conversation betwixt ‘Bright Star’ and ‘Ode to Nightingale’ strengthens the cultural contradictions offered in both to a full extent, the inversions of romantic natural paradigms exploring resonant analyses of the ephemerality of life and immortality of artistic legacy.