Keats Flashcards
lamia
Ah!
Miserable me!
self-pitying, allitteration
lamia
real…
are the dreams of gods
human are unrealistic, ironic as lamias dremas are unrealistic
lamia
convulsed…
with scarlet pain
synethesia implies something so unatural shouldnt happen
lamia
his eyes
drank her beatuy up
intoxicated by her good looks, doesnt see her truje form
lamia
upon
a time
fairytale opening
lamia
smooth
lipped serpant
manipulative
lamia
her wild..
and timid nature to his aim
Lycius enjoys supressing and subduing her power
lamia
subdued…
he should lead
he should lead
and knowing…
surely she could never win
reversed power dynamic
lamia
his foolish…
heart, from all its pompousness
self importance
lamia
haunting music…
feareful the whole charm might fade
similar to flute in DOAS, chorus
lamia
garlands…
of every green and every scent
overwhelming
lamia
valves
deflowered
distruption tp natujral order, preperation for party
Isabella
fair…
fair isabel, poor simple isabel!
Isabella
Honeyless days… cheeks paler
days… cheeks paler
Isabella
fell…
sick fell thin
Isabella
I will drink
her tears
Isabella
Meekness of…
a child Alas! when passion is both meek and wild!
Isabella
Great
bliss great hapiness
Isabella
twin roses…
by the zepher blown apart
Isabella
delicious…
love and honeyed dart
Isabella
had taken from…
the stars it’s pleasant veil
2x
isabella
too many tears
for lovers had been shed too many too many too much
isabella
marble founts, orange mons, red-lined accounts
protecting wealth
isabella
two…
close hebrews
money obsessed
femme fetale
beautiful lady who shows no mercy
la belle
alone and
palely loitering
lost sense of purpose, waiting for death
la belle
i met a…
lady in the meads, full beautiful - a farery’s child
supernatural elements paused to think about her beatuy
la belle
I made a…
garland for her head and bracletrs too
marrige, worship, emasculating, possessibe
la belle
on thy cheek
a fading rose fast withered too
colour fading from his face, dying, love sick
la belle
and nothing..
else saw all day long
hermatia - loves her too much
la belle
she wept…
sighed full sore
femme fatale - appears as vulnerable but deceptive/ seductive
la belle
sedge
has withered and no birds sing
cyclical, life and death
la belle
squirrel’s
grannery is full
winter, cold, betrayal - abandonment
la belle
her hair…
was long her foot was light
seduced by her sexuality, phsyical, natural
la belle
set her
on my pacing steed
conventional, courting her traditionally
la belle
pale kings…
princes… warriors
dreamt, victims of femme fatale
allegorical characters in lamia
lamia
poetry
illusion/dream
allegorical characters in lamia
lycius
keats
poet
dreamer
ego
allegorical characters in lamia
apollonius
philosopher
reason/reality
public
negative capability
being ok with not knowing stuff
pure experience of emotions withot asking too many questions
reason vs passion
lamia
who is the tragic hero?
Lamia- was a queen, ends p dead
Lycius - lost all he had for public declaration of love, that lamia never really wanted
lamia
her throat was
serpant, but the words she spake came, as through bubbling honey, for loves sake
lamia
move in a
sweet body fit for life and love and pleasure… of heart and lips… ah miserable me!
lamia
she was a gordian
shape of dazzling hue, vermillion-spotted, golden, green and blue
lamia
the devil’s
mistress, or the devil herself
foreshadowning to her manipulative nature
lamia
mild as
a star in water
simile, out of place, will get extinguished, foreshawos
lamia
your soul
in mine and labyrinth you there
mistreatment of women, in a patriarchial society, seeks to imprison
Alludes to King Minos, who imprisoned the Minotaur in a labyrinth - part animal, part human
lamia
i have no
I have no friends… no, not one
isolation, ignored q about her name, as this would reveal her form
lamia
lycuis was gone
Lycius was gone to summon all his kin
Isolation
Abandons Lamia in a world she does not know - heavy with pathos
Emphasises her loneliness
Juxtaposition between all of Lycius’ family and Lamia’s complete loneliness - catharsis & pathos
lamia
i see thee
I see thee made a serpent’s prey
tragic victim, preditor prey complex, makes her looks villanous
isabella
fair
isabel, poor simple isabel!
first line of the poem
isabella
if looks
If looks speak love-laws
His love for Isabella is more important than social convention. The neat compound noun ‘love-laws’, suggest that love has its own rules, and is capable of overcoming social boundaries
isabellla
ancesteral
ancestral merchandise’
They have inherited wealth from trading. The description ‘ancestral’ suggests the brothers have not worked hard themselves but have inherited wealth from their forebears. Critique of capitalism from Keats- he was a romantic poet so would have disliked people earning money in this way.
isabella
servant of…
'’servant of trade designs’’
‘‘their sister’s love’’
The brothers are bitter that Lorenzo should be in such a position, beloved of Isabella. The addition of ‘and his olive-trees’ is a wry comment. The brothers are only interested in the wealth their sister’s potential husband has to offer.
Class discrimination- doesn’t want them to be together due to his lower class.
Possesive pronoun ‘‘their’’ suggests Isabella is their posession- patriarchal society.
isabella
'’Murdered man’’
inevitability, he is already a “murder’d man” just by accepting the request to travel with the brothers to the forest.Could also bring about the fated aspect of tragedy - their love was doomed from the beginning, it was certain to result in his death
The alliterative “m”s in murdered binds the two words togethe. There is no way can escape from his fate as it is prescribed in his descriptions. He is completely controlled by the brothers.
isabella
feverish
'’feverish unrest’’
Love is depicted as physical love sickness. Isabella still doesnt know that he is really dead.
isabella
sweet isabel
'’sweet Isabel by gradual decay from beauty fell’’
A typical tragic trope; Isabella pines and grows ill and debilitated from grief. The narrator uses the adjective “sweet” rather than “fair”. Isabella is now more mature and has lost innocence. Link to Keats’ own life (tuberculosis)
isabella
a brother’s
'’a brother’s bloody knife!’’
anagnorisis for izzy, The contempt of the speaker is expressed in the alliterative, plosive ‘b’s.
isabella
and still she comb’d
'’and still she comb’d and kept (…) and still she kissed and wept’’
This anticipates Isabella’s obsessive behaviour and her narcissistic love for Lorenzo’s decapitated head, which she now begins to cherish like a woman protecting her baby.
Maternal imagery, conveying that Isabella has been robbed of the opportunity of being a mother emphasising her loss and suffering
isabella
she forgot
'’She forgot the stars, the moon, the sun’’
The idea of Isabella forgetting the ‘stars, the moon, and sun,’ may represent the passing of time as well as nature and how this is now lost to her. This is also exemplified by the later line in this stanza that ‘she had no knowledge when the day was done,’ Furthermore, the repetition of ‘And she forgot’ may serve to emphasise the extent of the impact that Lorenzo’s death has had on her and how nothing else matters to her apart from him.
Additionally the ‘stars moon and sun’ are all sources of light, which is often associated with a heavenly or divine being. Forgetting these symbolic beings might suggest that Isabella is turning her back away from God and moving towards the dark - the realm of the devil.
The incremental repetition suggests she has become consumed and blinded by the Basil. It could suggest she has lost a sense of self, and the repetition also reduces the pace of the poem. Suggests continual heartache.
Furthermore, it conveys the dissociation between Isabella and the natural World, contrasting with the unnaturalness of their relationship.
turning away from religion, but this is also significant since she was presented as quite pious at the beginning of the poem. This shows her tragic downfall, since she is now worshipping Lorenzo rather than a God.
