Critical

Question 1

Arnold

Answer 1

Nothing is more remarkable in Keats than his clear sightedness his lucidity

Question 2

Colvin

Answer 2

The poet goes out with his whole being into nature

Question 3

Haywood (2)

Answer 3

“ frequently sexual connotations”

“ many objects and activities or sexually charged”

Question 4

cairns

Answer 4

“The sense of loss is balanced by art and philosophy”

Question 5

Hebron

Answer 5

a willingness to let what is mysterious or doubtful remain just that

Question 6

stilinger

Answer 6

Keats finds melancholy in delight and pleasure in pain

Question 7

banard

Answer 7

figures can never consummate their desire and belong to an ominous world of coolness and fixity

Question 8

McGann

Answer 8

Keats was reacting to the horrors of the social situation by writing escapist poetry.

Question 9

Fogle

Answer 9

‘unrivalled ability to absorb, sympathise with, and humanise natural objects’

Question 10

Finney

Answer 10

The union of joy and pain is the fundamental fact of human experience

Question 11

Brooklyn

Answer 11

“Keats blends living and dying because they’re inexplicably one”

Question 12

Sowerby (eve)

Answer 12

it is possible to see the struggle between Eros and Thantos

Question 13

Keats

Answer 13

“beauty overcomes every other consideration”

Question 14

brooks

Answer 14

“the world of imagination provides a release from the painful world of actuality”