Bright Star S2

Question 1

thesis

Answer 1

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

s3 thesis

Answer 2

Keats poem ‘Bright Star’ and Campion’s film host textual conversations challenging the rigid ideological dichotomy between love and death to a great extent, repositioning the audience’s perspective of romantic caricatures denoting the ‘Byronic Hero’ and his ‘ethereal muse’.

Question 3

s3 p1
Apostrophises star emblematic of…

Answer 3

desire for legacy, romantic perspective artist suffers, turmoil as product and inspiration

Question 4

s3 p2
aptly named after unorthordox byron, ‘byronic hero’…

Answer 4

became immortalised

Question 5

s3 p3
First stanza aligns, religious allusion

Answer 5

“Natures sleepless erumite” = tortured poet as fanatic, subtle self-reference and natural metaphors in oeuvre

Question 6

s3 p4
Caricature truncated exclamation “Bright Star!” …

Answer 6

emulates classic invocations of muse, zealous poet refers

Question 7

s3 p5
iliad

Answer 7

“Sing, O Goddess, the fatal wrath of Peleus’ son Achilles”

Question 8

s3 p6
Keats allusion characterises muse shrouded to man by…

Answer 8

omniscience

Question 9

s3 p7
Star doubles as…

Answer 9

‘byronic hero’ in octave
“in lone splendour hung aloft in the night”

Question 10

s3 p8
Wordsworth’s ‘London 1802’ apostrophises…

Answer 10

Milton, “soul was like a star, and dwelt apart”.

Question 11

s3 p9
Revered for prowess unalduterated by feminine muse…

Answer 11

is rewrought in BS “artist who abstracts himself from nature and common humanity.” (Sherwin 1978).

Question 12

s3 p10
Octave reinforces isolation of withdrawn poet, distant imagery …

Answer 12

“lone splendour hung aloft”, “eternal lids apart” and figures’ resulting abstinence “Priestlike task”, “pure ablution”.

Question 13

s3 p11
Parodic intentions in…

Answer 13

objection of caricatures in tonal shift, sestet preferences touch

Question 14

s3 p12
keats evokative sensual imagery “soft fall and swell” and “tender taken breath”…

Answer 14

audience luxuriates betwixt poet and muse

Question 15

s3 p13
Kappel

Answer 15

“In the sestet there is a descent from the skies, a humanizing degradation of the bright star’s regal solitude.”

Question 16

s3 p14
“swoon to death” continues octave / sestet juxtaposition,

Answer 16

relinquishing eternal legacy to “Awake for ever in a sweet unrest” in immortalised romance

Question 17

s3 p15
Conclusion, extrapolate keats, recognises immortal legacy,

Answer 17

aligns with enlightenment rationality of ephemerality, rejoicing in everlasting love of humanised poet and muse

Question 18

s3 p16
Filmic ballad BS sligns with trajectory of sonnet humanising archetypes…

Answer 18

feminist disposition fleshing out female muse into focus

Question 19

s3 p17
Reworks into lovers conversation, mise en scene

Answer 19

pictures Keats “pillow’d upon [his] fair love’s ripening breast”

Question 20

s3 p18
Re-aligns muse caricature into…

Answer 20

realised being, fanny, exploring dual existence as creator and muse

Question 21

s3 p19
Opening ECU needlework challenges expectations…

Answer 21

re-focusing to domestic women and artistic endeavours, deserve no less then counterparts

Question 22

s3 p20
Post-modern reimagination of muse as…

Answer 22

mortal creature with equal creative aspirations

Question 23

s3 p21
Final allusion after death,

Answer 23

long shots fanny reciting in a “soft fallen mask of snow” poems pathetic fallacy

Question 24

s3 p22
F and K mortalised, removed from precipice

Answer 24

of romantic caricatures, communicate through immortal poetic legacy