Keats

Question 1

What are the quotes for Lamia? (35)

Answer 1

1. “a nymph to whom all Satyrs knelt, at whose white feet the languid Tritons poured pearls,”
2. “Sweet nymph”, “the wood nymph’s beauty”
3. “mournful voice” “lone voice spake” “Ah, miserable me!”
4. “striped like a zebra, freckled lie a pard, eyes like a peacock”
5. “sprinkled with stars” “eclipsed her crescents” “licked up her stars”
6. “she seems, at once, some penanced lady elf, some demon’s mistress, or the demon’s self”
7. “Like a stooped falcon ere he takes his prey”
8. “Fair Hermes, crowned with feathers… splendid dream… sitting, on a throne of gold”
9. “thou shalt behold her, Hermes, thou alone”
10. “I was a woman, let me have once more a woman’s shape, and charming as before” “give me my woman’s form”
11. “serpent prison-house”
12. “will you leave me on the hills alone?”
13. “Stay! … stay!… Stay!”
14. “Lycius from death awoke into amaze”
15. “playing woman’s part”
16. “throughout her palaces imperial” “like tempest in the distance brewed
17. “the pavement white”
18. “curled grey beard, sharp eyes, and smooth bald crown” “grey-beard wretch!”
19. “slow-stepped” “calm-planted steps”
20. “too short was their bliss”
21. “purple-lined palace of sweet sin”
22. “my silver planet”
23. “How to entangle, trammel up and snare your soul in mine”
24. “pale and meek”
25. “do not bid old Apollonius – from him keep me hid”
26. “fresh carved cedar, mimicking a glade of palm and plantain”
27. “pale contented sort of discontent”
28. “When dreadful guests would come to spoil her solitude”,
29. “for uninvited guest to force himself upon you, and infest with unbidden presence… yet I must do this wrong”
30. “Fool!… Fool! Fool!”
31. “shall I see thee made a serpent’s prey?”
32. “like a sharp spear, went through her utterly”
33. “keen, cruel, perceant, stinging”
34. “with a frightful scream she vanished”
35. “Lycius’ arms were empty of delight as were his limbs of life”

Question 2

What are the quotes or Isabella or the Pot of Basil? (24)

Answer 2

1. “Fair Isabel, poor simple Isabel!”
2. “a young palmer in Love’s eye!”
3. “He would catch her beauty farther than the falcon spies”
4. “A whole long month of May in this sad plight”
5. “sweet Isabella’s untouched cheek fell sick within the rose’s just domain”
6. “Great bliss”
7. “all close they met”
8. “for them the Ceylon diver… went all naked to the hungry shark”
9. “ears gushed blood”
10. “a thousand men in troubles”
11. “Why were they proud?”
12. “red-lined accounts” “he, the servant… should in their sister’s love be blithe and glad”
13. “plan to coax her by degrees to some high noble and his olive-trees” “slain and buried
14. “when a soul doth thus its freedom win, it aches in loneliness – is ill at peace” “They dipped their swords in water”
15. “she weeps alone…”
16. “pale shadow”
17. “I am a shadow now, alas! alas!”
18. “an aged nurse”, “that aged dame” “that old nurse”
19. “sighing all day”
20. “and she forgot”,
21. “the stars, the moon, and sun… the blue above the trees… the dells where water run… the chilly autumn breeze”
22. “continual shower from her dead eyes”
23. “and so she pined, and so she died forlorn”
24. “’O cruelty, to steal my basil-pot away from me!’”

Question 3

What are the quotes for La Belle Dams Sans Merci? (7)

Answer 3

1. “Alone and palely loitering?”
2. “the sedge has withered from the lake, and no birds sing”
3. “I met a lady in the meads”
4. “- Full beautiful – a faery’s child, her hair was long, her foot was light”
5. “on the cold hill’s side”
6. “pale kings and princes too, pale warriors, death-pale were they all”
7. “I saw their starved lips”