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Question 1

what class was keats

Answer 1

lower class

Question 2

why could keats never marry fanny brawne?

Answer 2

finacial problems and illness

Question 3

in what year was the french revolution?

Answer 3

1789

Question 4

did the 1st gernation romantics support the french revolution

Answer 4

no - they actually benefited from the class sytem (lord byron etc) - this can be seen in their use of the nickname cockney poet when reffering to keats

Question 5

what time period was the industrial revolution?

Answer 5

1750-1830

Question 6

when where the luddite disturbances and what where they?

Answer 6

1811-17 factories and mills were attacked and machines destroyed in protest of the industrial revolution

Question 7

what year was the Peterloo massacre and what was it?

Answer 7

1819 -meeting in support of parliamentary reform - the speakers were arrested and the crows violently dispersed

Question 8

characteristics of romanticism

Answer 8

• value feeling and emotion over reason
• intrest in investigation of the self
• nature as a means of understanding self
• focus on imagination and transience
• rebellion against political institutions

Question 9

Keats admired Wordsworth but he was wary of his …..

Answer 9

‘egotistical sublime’ - the way he can be seen to force his own philosophy onto the readers of his poetry

Question 10

Keats letter

‘I am certain of …..

Answer 10

i am certain of nothing but the holiness of the hearts affections and the truth of the imagination

Question 11

Keats letters

‘what the imagination …..’

Answer 11

what the imagination seizes as beauty must be truth

Question 12

keats letters

‘Negative capability….

Answer 12

negative capability that is when man is capable of being in uncertainties

Question 13

Keats letters

‘the poet has …

Answer 13

the poet has no identity (links to his idea of being a chameleon poet)

Question 14

keats letters

he will not spend any time …

Answer 14

any time with ladies unless they are handsome

Question 15

keats letters

‘abhorred….

Answer 15

abhorred tyranny

Question 16

what did keats think about religion?

Answer 16

he despised the established church ‘the pious frauds of religion’ but admired christ

Question 17

what did keats think would happen after he died?

Answer 17

‘i think i shall be among the english poets after my death’