Keats Poetry Flashcards
Examples of references to sound in Isabella?
“rill” “lute-string” “love’s tune” “dewy rhyme”
Examples of references to taste in Isabella?
“honeyless” “sweet” “taste the blossoms” “delicious love” “honeyed dart” “the little sweet doth kill much bitterness” “there is richest juice in posion-flowers”
Examples of references to temperature in Isabella?
“from wintry cold to summer clime” “ripe warmth”
Examples of references to illness in Isabella?
“sick longing” “sad plight made their cheeks paler” “fell sick” “fell thin” “how ill she is” “fevered” “waxing very pale and dead” “all flushed”
Examples of religious allusion in Isabella?
“a young palmer” “constantly vespers” “did pray for the power to speak” “my passion shrive”
Examples of semantic field of death in Isabella?
“embalmed” “lilies” “waxing very pale and dead” “slaughter” “slain and buried” “ghostly” “sepulchre” “ murderous spite” “deadly dark” “gradual decay” “skull, coffined bones and funeral” “hungry Death” “human soul”
How are the antagonists (brothers) described in Isabella?
“money-bags” “men of cruel clay” who “cut mercy with a sharp knife to the bone” “hawks” “ledger-men” “hungry pride and gainful cowardice” “quick cat’s-paws”
In ‘Isabella’ which quotes serve as examples of sensory descriptions & synaesthesia being used to portray their love as innocent & passionate (which heightens pathos & catharsis experienced by readers at their tragic fates/peripeteia)?
“Close in a bower of hyacinth and musk” “there is richest juice in poison-flowers” “thou art leading me from wintry cold to summer clime” “delicious love” “lute-string” (Isabellas voice)
In ‘Isabella’ which quotes serve to present Isabella and Lorenzo as tragic victims & their hamartia= myopia & naïvety/blindness, Isabella realises this in her anagnorisis; great height= their love; their deaths= tragic, inevitable fate- peripeteia & Isabella’s decline ultimately leads to her death
“so sweet Isabel by gradual decay from beauty fell” “spirit, thou hast schooled my infancy” “unknown of any, free from whispering tale” “and she forgot…” (anaphora) “she died forlorn” “lone and incomplete” “for simple Isabel was soon to be among the dead” (foreshadowing)
In ‘Isabella’ which quotes depict the brothers as the antagonists, orchestrating the peripeteia by brutally murdering Lorenzo? (Evoking fear/terror from readers) characterised as Machiavellian
“Why were they proud?”- repeated rhetorical question & omniscient narrator evokes hatred & disgust/repulsion; “serpents” - religious allusion to devil “hawks” “quick cat’s paws” (zoomorphism/animalistic imagery- depicted/portrayed as predatory & evil); Keats criticised for Ottawa rima- fairytale narrative rather than tragedy & rhyming couplets detract from serious tone; “‘twas their plan to coax her by degrees to some high noble and his olive trees” “men of cruel clay” “cut mercy with a sharp knife to the bone” “red-lined accounts” “the murderous spite of pride and avarice” “away they went, with blood upon their heads, to banishment”
In ‘la belle dame’ which quotes can be used to portray the knight as the antagonist & the woman as the tragic heroine who falls from grace by evolving into an evil figure?
Imperative verb phrases “I set her on my pacing steed” “I made a garland for her head”- adorns her with accessories, objectifying “and bracelets too, and fragrant zone” “there I shut her wild wild eyes with kisses four” “full beautiful” - descriptions= superficial lens, focused only on appearance, anonymous- disregard for her identity
Which quotes from ‘la belle dame’ could be used to portray/characterise/describe the woman as the evil antagonist of the tragedy, triggering the peripeteia (tragic opposition of her deceptive beauty & delicate appearance vs. callous mistreatment & neglect/abandonment) ?
“Femme fatale” figure/seductive temptress trope- uses spiritual/divine forces to enraptured Knight, repetition of “wild”- untameable, irresistible force, treacherous & powerful vs. ethereal, enchanting, fragile exterior; “sidelong she would bend, and sing a faery’s song” “elfin grot” “manna-dew”- religious allusion “a faery’s child” “she lulled me to sleep” “her eyes were wild” “her wild wild eyes”
Which quotes from ‘la belle dame’ can be used to refer to the knight’s inevitable fate/peripeteia (narrative gap & Romantic sense of uncertainty, ambiguous ending & cyclical structure)
“The sedge is withered” “and no birds sing” “on the cold hill’s side” “the squirrel’s granary is full, and the harvests done.” - semantic field of devoid of life, silence, pathetic fallacy= winter, setting foreshadows his ultimate fate= death? “Haggard and woe-begone” “alone and palely loitering”
In ‘eve of St agnes’ which quotes can be used to foreshadow the couple’s doomed inevitable fate- cyclical structure & sense of impending doom?
“Bitter chill” “frosted breath” “already had his deathbell rung” “the joys of all his life were said and sung.” “weak in body and in soul” characters of Angela & beadsman used to embody death & tragic opposition of “ancient” vs. “The brain, new-stuffed, in youth”; this is combined with pathetic fallacy & semantic field of winter, connotes death/endings; enshrouded in doom “like phantoms” “these lovers fled away into the storm” “died palsy-twitched, meagre face deform” “slept among his ashes cold”
In ‘eve of St agnes’ which quotes can be used to portray Madeline as a pure victim, evoking more pathos when the peripeteia occurs?
“Lambs unshorn” “dove forlorn, with sick unprined wing: - zoomorphism, white connotes purity/chastity/innocence; “maiden’s chamber- silken, hushed, chaste” “maiden eyes divine” “she seemed a splendid angel”- religious allusion
In ‘eve of St agnes’ which quotes portray/characterise porphyro as the antagonist & madeline experiences anagnorisis where she realises this?
“Thou art a cruel impious man” “cruel!” “A painful change, that nigh expelled the blisses of her dream so pure and deep” “so mused awhile, entoiled in woofed fantasies”
In ‘eve of St agnes’ which quotes portray Madeline’s family household as the evil antagonists & porphyro as the tragic hero who saves her & liberates her?
Zoomorphism- “sleeping dragons all around” “barbarian hordes” “bolts” “chains” “blissfully haven’t from both jot and pain” “blinded alike form sunshine and from rain”- juxtaposition, oppressive & suffocating, holding her captive
