John Keats Flashcards

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Merlin’s downfall

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“Since Merlin paid his demons all the monstrous debt”

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Philomela’s rape

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“tongueless nightingale”

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Porphyro’s heaven

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“Stolen to this paradise”

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Porphyro’s infatuated “stratagem”

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“Sudden, like a full-blown rose”

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Porphyro’s infatuated sexism

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“win…a peerless bride”

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Angela’s concerns

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“Thou canst not surely be the same that thou didst seem,”

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Intercourse

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“He played an ancient ditty,”

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Banishment from his heaven

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“glide, like phantoms”

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Porphyro’s divine infatuation

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“She seemed like a splendid angel,”

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The Garden

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“Of fruits, and flowers, and bunches of knot-grass,”

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Madeline’s plea

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“Oh leave me not in this eternal woe,”

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Angela’s contrast

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“the agèd creature came” and “Puzzled urchin”

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Madeline and the chain of being

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“A shielded scutcheon blushed with blood of queens and kings.”

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Porphyro’s infatuated doom

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“entoiled in woofèd fantasies.”

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Porphyro’s might and magic

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“liege-lord of all the Elves and Fays”

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Madeline’s rape

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“With her wild dream he mingled”

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Lamia’s identity or foreshadowing

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“As Proserpine still weeps for her Sicilian air?”

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Lycius’ mistake foreshadowed or the emphasis of love

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“Orpheus-like at an Eurydice,”

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Lycius’ ignorance

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“So noiseless, and he never thought to know”

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Nymphs’ fall

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“Faded before him” “tears”

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Lycius’ chains of love from contrast

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“So shall I die” with “His mind wrapped like his mantle”

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Power of a God

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“Real are the dream of Gods”

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Lamia’s temptress linkage

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“Circean head,”

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Speculative distrust on love

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“Too short was their bliss to breed distrust.”

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Apollonius’ reason

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“And shall I see thee made a serpent’s prey?”

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Lamia’s Promethean transformation

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“Flash’d phosphor and sharp sparks, without one cooling tear”

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Keats’ interlude with Lamia

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“Do not all charms fly At the mere touch of cold philosophy?”

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The Holy Grail in Lamia

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“his eyes had drunk her beauty up…in the bewildering cup”

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The silence for the knight

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“No birds sing” contrasts “A faery’s song”

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The Temptress’ power

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“her eyes were wild”

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The Temptress’ victims

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“kings,” “princes” and “warriors.” “death-pale were they all”

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Crocodile tears or…?

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“she wept and sighed full sore”

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Winter is coming

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“The squirrel’s granary is full”

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What the temptress is

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“a faery’s child”

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Lorenzo’s obsession

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“all the night outwear To hear her morning-step upon the stair.”

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Isabella’s obsession

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“tears” - “beautiful it grew” – ”She withers”

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Ghostly mysticism

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“Strange sounds it was” – “those sounds grew strange to me”

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Isabella’s madness

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“melodious chuckle” contrasts when she would have “Sang”

39
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The barrier between the lovers

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“the servant”

40
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Keats’ unnecessary interlude

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“The quiet glooms of such a piteous theme”

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Motives of the villains

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“marble founts” – “wretch’s tears”

42
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Villains of the Satanic kind

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“serpents” – “quiet for the slaughter”

43
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Promethean doom

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“of cruel clay”

44
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Selfish from the sacrifice

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“for them many a weary hand did swelt”

45
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Basic Bitch Quote

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“all naked for the hungry shark”

46
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Blood in new waters

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“How could these money-bags see east and west?” conforms to his “amusing sober-sadness about it.”

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Villainous nature

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“Half-ignorant”

48
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Cowardice without Catharsis

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“left Florence…never to turn again” – “steal the basil-pot”

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Death from a lost paradise

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“but you must not eat from the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, for when you eat from it you will certainly die.“