CONTEXT OF KEATS

Question 1

ILLNESS

Answer 1

• Died of tuberculosis = once started coughing blood = devoted himself to expression with feverish intensity
• Doctor warned him he won’t survive another english winter = leave sensuous natural beauty for understanding: ‘the agony and strife of human hearts’

Question 2

GREEK

Answer 2

• Many visits to British museum- studied sculpture of Ancient Greece
• omits crude, ruthless mythology
• makes life of ancient greece idyllic, beauty happiness and love

Question 3

INDUSTRIAL REVOLUTION

Answer 3

• inclined to reject the new realities of the ir and the monotonous drudgery of life in the cities

Question 4

Imagination

Answer 4

• healing power of imagination

- enables people to transcend their troubles and circumstances