Keats Flashcards
fair isabel poor simple isabel
Isabella, or; the Basil Pot
analysis : immediate indication of someone who is innocent and fragile
Lorenzo a young palmer in Love’s eye
Isabella, or; the Basil Pot
analysis : Lorenzo is cast as the tragic victim, this indicates the cause of downfall
They could not … beneath the same roof sleep but to each other dream and nightly weep
Isabella, or; the Basil Pot
analysis : sense of tragedy - they can only be together in their dreams , emphasises the love they feel for each other
His continual voice was pleasanter to her then noise of trees
Isabella, or; the Basil Pot
analysis : she truly loves him - more than nature - which is highly significant to romanticist poet Keats
Honeyless days
Isabella, or; the Basil Pot
analysis : demonstrates how much adoration they have for each other , without eachother they are blue
a young mother who doth seek by every lull to cool her infant’s pain
Isabella, or; the Basil Pot
analysis : metaphoric depiciton of Isabella as a mother with Lorenzo as her child - perhaps depicts the love shared between them ?
Twin roses
Isabella, or; the Basil Pot
analysis : fateful lovers ?
Two brothers enriched in torched mines and noisy factories … half ignorant … gushed with more pride … money-bags … blood-hounds of such sin
Isabella, or; the Basil Pot
analysis : sense of enslavement and maltreatment - they are evil and cruel
twas their plan to coax her by some degrees to some noble and his olive-trees
Isabella, or; the Basil Pot
analysis : they are villainous and wish to control Isabella’s life
they resolved in some forest dim to kill Lorenzo and there bury him
Isabella, or; the Basil Pot
analysis : they plan to murder Isabella’s love, shows the extremes of their malicious plan
she weeps alone … gradual decay from beauty fell … feverish unrest … with an eye all pale
Isabella, or; the Basil Pot
analysis : they plan to murder Isabella’s love, shows the extremes of their malicious plan
Lorenzo stood and wept
Isabella, or; the Basil Pot
analysis : secures him as the tragic victim
moaned a ghostly under-song … Isabella on its music hung
Isabella, or; the Basil Pot
analysis : suggests how in absolute adoration Isabella is with Lorenzo and how she clings on to him even following his death
sighing all day - and still she kissed and wept
Isabella, or; the Basil Pot
analysis : maternal imagery - she cares for him
she sat drooping by the Basil green and why it flourished as by magic touch
Isabella, or; the Basil Pot
analysis : juxtaposition of her dying and him flourishing - she adores him
she pined and so she died … O cruelty to steal my Basil-pot away from me !
Isabella, or; the Basil Pot
analysis : innocence, loss + heightens cruelty of brothers
to find where this sweet nympth prepared her secret bed
Lamia
analysis : presents the tragic innocence of the Nymph
mournful voice … lone voice … ruddy strife … miserable me … wreathed tomb
Lamia
analysis : first impression of Lamia - she’s pitiable
gordian shape of dazzling hue, vermillion-spotted, golden, green and blue
Lamia
analysis : Lamia is fanatastical, and bold
some demons mistress or the demons self
Lamia
analysis : difficult to decipher whether she is good or bad, contradictory nature of Lamia
some demons mistress or the demons self
Lamia
analysis : difficult to decipher whether she is good or bad, contradictory nature of Lamia
“I was a woman, let me have once more a woman’s shape and charming as before”
Lamia
analysis : this is her desire! she longs to have it
like a moon in wane, faded before him … could not restrain her fearful sobs, self-folding like a flower
Lamia
analysis : indicates how innocent the nymph is and how she is cruelly taken advantage of
