John Keats Flashcards
Merlin’s downfall
“Since Merlin paid his demons all the monstrous debt”
Philomela’s rape
“tongueless nightingale”
Porphyro’s heaven
“Stolen to this paradise”
Porphyro’s infatuated “stratagem”
“Sudden, like a full-blown rose”
Porphyro’s infatuated sexism
“win…a peerless bride”
Angela’s concerns
“Thou canst not surely be the same that thou didst seem,”
Intercourse
“He played an ancient ditty,”
Banishment from his heaven
“glide, like phantoms”
Porphyro’s divine infatuation
“She seemed like a splendid angel,”
The Garden
“Of fruits, and flowers, and bunches of knot-grass,”
Madeline’s plea
“Oh leave me not in this eternal woe,”
Angela’s contrast
“the agèd creature came” and “Puzzled urchin”
Madeline and the chain of being
“A shielded scutcheon blushed with blood of queens and kings.”
Porphyro’s infatuated doom
“entoiled in woofèd fantasies.”
Porphyro’s might and magic
“liege-lord of all the Elves and Fays”
Madeline’s rape
“With her wild dream he mingled”
Lamia’s identity or foreshadowing
“As Proserpine still weeps for her Sicilian air?”
Lycius’ mistake foreshadowed or the emphasis of love
“Orpheus-like at an Eurydice,”
Lycius’ ignorance
“So noiseless, and he never thought to know”
Nymphs’ fall
“Faded before him” “tears”
Lycius’ chains of love from contrast
“So shall I die” with “His mind wrapped like his mantle”
Power of a God
“Real are the dream of Gods”
Lamia’s temptress linkage
“Circean head,”
Speculative distrust on love
“Too short was their bliss to breed distrust.”
Apollonius’ reason
“And shall I see thee made a serpent’s prey?”
Lamia’s Promethean transformation
“Flash’d phosphor and sharp sparks, without one cooling tear”
Keats’ interlude with Lamia
“Do not all charms fly At the mere touch of cold philosophy?”
The Holy Grail in Lamia
“his eyes had drunk her beauty up…in the bewildering cup”
The silence for the knight
“No birds sing” contrasts “A faery’s song”
The Temptress’ power
“her eyes were wild”
The Temptress’ victims
“kings,” “princes” and “warriors.” “death-pale were they all”
Crocodile tears or…?
“she wept and sighed full sore”
Winter is coming
“The squirrel’s granary is full”
What the temptress is
“a faery’s child”
Lorenzo’s obsession
“all the night outwear To hear her morning-step upon the stair.”
Isabella’s obsession
“tears” - “beautiful it grew” – ”She withers”
Ghostly mysticism
“Strange sounds it was” – “those sounds grew strange to me”
Isabella’s madness
“melodious chuckle” contrasts when she would have “Sang”
The barrier between the lovers
“the servant”
Keats’ unnecessary interlude
“The quiet glooms of such a piteous theme”
Motives of the villains
“marble founts” – “wretch’s tears”
Villains of the Satanic kind
“serpents” – “quiet for the slaughter”
Promethean doom
“of cruel clay”
Selfish from the sacrifice
“for them many a weary hand did swelt”
Basic Bitch Quote
“all naked for the hungry shark”
Blood in new waters
“How could these money-bags see east and west?” conforms to his “amusing sober-sadness about it.”
Villainous nature
“Half-ignorant”
Cowardice without Catharsis
“left Florence…never to turn again” – “steal the basil-pot”
Death from a lost paradise
“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.“
