Keats Flashcards
1
Q
Who was concerned with negative capability?
A
Keats
2
Q
Keats: The Great Odes
A
- 6
- Summer & autumn 1819
- Odal hymn
3
Q
What has the nightingale been historically associated with?
A
Poetic & artistic inspiration eg Milton
4
Q
Negative Capability
A
- Keats
- Mind cannot comprehend something too vast
- Ambiguity
- Set aside truth to experience subjective feeling of mystery
5
Q
Who was Keats in love with?
A
His neighbour, Fanny Brawne
6
Q
Who was Keats’ housemate in Hampstead
A
Charles Brown
7
Q
John Keats’ relationship with death
A
- Father & mother died of TB when he was young
- Worked in medicine, surrounded by death & suffering
- Brother died of TB, keats tried to save him
- Keats illness
8
Q
Keats illness
A
- Suffered from TB for many years
- Spent time isolated, watches Fanny Brawne in the garden
- Contemplates death in his odes
9
Q
Which poem was inspired by King Lear?
A
- Sonnet on the Sea - Keats
10
Q
Where was “sonnet on the sea” from?
A
Letter to John Hamilton Reynolds
11
Q
What kind of poem is Nightingale? (Form & type)
A
- Horatian ode
- Escapist
12
Q
Where did keats see the urn?
A
British museum
13
Q
What else did keats write about British museum?
A
“On Seeing the Elgin Marbles”
14
Q
What can be said of form in Ode on Melancholy?
A
- Horatian Ode
- Each stanza = one complete sentence
- Quatrane & sestet = change in mood
15
Q
What book did Keats read?
A
Robert Burton: Anatomy on Melancholy
