John Keats; romantic poet

Question 1

what year did Keats’ brother die and what was his name?

Answer 1

1819, Thomas

Question 2

which radical reformer was Keats’ friends with?

Answer 2

Leigh Hunt

Question 3

What is negative capability?

Answer 3

The idea that there is no need to have answers to every question, the less it is understood, the more value it has.

Question 4

What is a sonnet?

Answer 4

a 14 line poem written in iambic pentameter usually used in love poetry

Question 5

what is a Volta?

Answer 5

In poetry it is the sudden change of thought or ‘turning point’

Question 6

In which poem does Keats talk about fear of dying?

Answer 6

‘when I have fears that I may cease to be’

Question 7

In which poem does Keats talk about the loneliness of the industrial city of London?

Answer 7

‘O Solitude! if I must with thee dwell’

Question 8

what is an ode?

Answer 8

a lyrical poem for which Keats was famous for- they address a particular subject or theme.

Question 9

which of Keats’ poems are in ode form?

Answer 9

‘ode to psyche’ ‘ode on a grecian urn’ ‘ode to a nightingale’ ‘ode on melancholy’ ‘to autumn’

Question 10

which of Keats’ poems are in sonnet form?

Answer 10

‘O solitude’ ‘on first looking into chapman’s homer’ ‘on the sea’ ‘on sitting down to read king lear once again’ ‘when I have fears that I might cease to be’ ‘to sleep’ ‘Bright star’

Question 11

what is a Petrarchan sonnet?

Answer 11

split into the octave and the sestet ABBA ABBA rhyme scheme

Question 12

what is a ballad?

Answer 12

a poem or song narrating a story in short stanzas

Question 13

what is enjambment?

Answer 13

the continuation of a line into another stanza without a pause.

Question 14

what is a quatrain?

Answer 14

a stanza that is 4 lines long

Question 15

which magazines gave Keats a bad review which almost ruined his career?

Answer 15

Blackwoods and the Quarterly review, a particularly classist attack, mentioning his middle-class upbringing

Question 16

what age was Keats orphaned?

Answer 16

14 years old

Question 17

what does Keats’ gravestone say and why?

Answer 17

‘Here lies one whose name was writ in water’ He never considered himself a good poet or a person who would be remembered.

Question 18

Who influenced Keats to pursue his literary passions?

Answer 18

His headmaster John Clarke and his son Charles Clarke as well as Keats’ own brothers.

Question 19

which movement did Keats influence after his death?

Answer 19

The pre-raphaelites and Lord Alfred Tennyson

Question 20

what era did Keats write in?

Answer 20

The Regency period

Question 21

which of Keats’ poems are in narrative verse?

Answer 21

‘Eve of St Agnes’

Question 22

which techniques is Keats’ poetry famous for?

Answer 22

Juxtaposition, metaphor, simile and lyrical poetry

Question 23

When did Keats die and where?

Answer 23

1821 in Rome

Question 24

what is Keats’ use of apostrophe and give two poems that use it?

Answer 24

when a writer speaks to a person who is not there or to an inanimate object. e.g. ‘ode on a grecian urn’ and ‘O Solitude!’