Critical views (AO5) Flashcards
1
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Leland S. Person on Gatsby’s idealisation of Daisy
A
‘No woman, no human being, could ever approximate the Platonic ideal he has invented’
2
Q
Gatsby embodying Tony Tanner’s view of fantasy
A
‘life in fantasy is safer than real life’
3
Q
Michael Hebron on love as an omnipotent force in Sonnet 116
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Shakespeare presents love as ‘a God or an angel’.
4
Q
Laura Jordan on the presentation of women in Keats’ poetry
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‘the women he creates are simultaneously goddesses and demons’
5
Q
Laura Jordan on the presentation of men in Keats’ poetry.
A
the men are ‘left broken, bewildered and alone’
6
Q
Keats on his rejection from Fanny Brawne
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she had ‘so entrammeled, so destroyed (his) freedom’
7
Q
Keats writing to his friend about love
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‘a man in love…cuts the sorriest figure in the world’
