JOHN KEATS: Sonnet on the sea

Question 1

‘eternal whisperings around’

Answer 1

sibilance onomatopoeia= impression of something spirirtual

mythical mysterious resemblance to religious chanting

Question 2

‘might swell’

Answer 2

‘whispers’ to ‘swell’ = power

Question 3

‘keeps’ ‘gluts’ ‘caverns;

Answer 3

seas protecting shores as benevolent deity protects people

Question 4

‘hectate leaves them;

Answer 4

Goddess of the moon, transitory nature of God and religon, nature however is forver

Question 5

‘such gentle temper’

Answer 5

forgive

Question 6

‘winds of heaven were unbound’

Answer 6

ironic full stop = society unwilling to accpet nature

Question 7

‘ye;

Answer 7

direct address - aware of the entrapment and contriciton of city life readers expiercnfce
no use of I allows reader to connect wholisticalyl w nature

Question 8

‘fed’ feast gluts

Answer 8

lexical field of eating

Question 9

‘sit;

Answer 9

paradox giving something omnipotent and so big meditative and soothing charactersitics

Question 10

‘sea nyphms

Answer 10

advocate for tunring ordinary to extraordinary through mythologivsl imagery transfroms dull reality into beautiful
isnt simply exterious landscapes we can find beauty- interior landscape = imagination