Mod A Flashcards
Keats Mortality and Love 1
When I have fears
“hold like rich garners the full ripen’d grain”
harvest imagery highlights the cyclical nature of inevitable death
fears that death is unable to harvest the “fertility” of his creative potential due to the scarcity of time
Keats Mortality and Love 2
When I have fears
“till Love and Fame to nothingness do sink”
metaphor at the end of the poem for Keats surrending to the inevitability of death (following the death of his mother and younger brother)
poetic anastrophe enabling Campions resonant portrayal of lives ephemerality
trivial struggles of minor anxieties overshadowed by everyone’s inevitable perish
Keats Mortality and Love 3
La Belle
“ a faery’s song”
mythological allusion to the bewitchment of a faery, mimicking the intensity of love
the inevitable mortality eventually results in grief as Keats has an idealised love that is not attainable in the real world
Campion Transience (relationships are a form of combatting mortality)(shows reality and keats fantasises about the ideal) 1
cross-cutting between Fanny and Keats on either side of a wall showing varying perspectives and boundaries of regency england on their love
walls and doors act as a motif to symbolise the social barriers dividing their authentic love
Campion Transience 2
Camera lingers at Fanny’s viewpoint accompanied by chiaroscuro lighting and dark shadows
Feminist perspectives on the melancholy truth of mortality overriding the idea of love and joy in authentic interpersonal relationships through the raw ambience rather than keats mortality overriding ideal unattainable relationships
Campion Transience 3
Campion’s 21st century realism is evidenced in Fanny’s intertextual recital of Bright Star as she declares that she must remain “steadfast” after Keats’ death
with the barren winter landscape symbolising Fanny’s internalised grief and underscoring how death is endured by those still alive, dismantling Keats’ Romantic idealism to ground her film in reality.
Keats Art 1
Ode to a Nightingale
“tasting the flora and the country green/ Dance, and provencal song”
synaesthetic imagery involves sensory pleasure of the beauty of art
Romantic concept of negative capability for creativity and art to escape reality into the ideal ephemeral world
transience as an escape from reality
Keats Art 2
Ode to a Nightingale
“thou wast not born to die, immortal bird!”
apostrophe
immortal nature of beauty and art through the birdsong remaining immortal in nature regardless of the cycle of life displaying the permanence of art
Keats Art 3
Ode on a Grecian Urn
“Bold Lover, never, never canst thou kiss”
repeated negation and romantic epithets
melancholy truth of the staticism of art as the lovers are eternally fixed in place. unable to embrace, depicting the permanence of art
Keats romanticised perspective on art, revealing his rejection of the ideals of enlightenment
Campion Art 1
Opening scene establishing shot of Fanny sewing
Motif for Fanny’s feminist perspective as sewing is a vessel for her personal expression as an imaginative escape from the rigid etiquette of Regency England and patriarchal norms
Campion Art 2
non-diegetic music of the birdsong
authenticity of the beauty of nature and its contribution to art
aligning with Keats views on the beauty of nature
Campion Art 3
freeze frame shots in relation to “Ode on a Grecian Urn” transitioning to the slow-motion embrace of Keats and Fanny
Campion adds a layer to the Keats’ perspective of the staticism of art
depicts the dynamism of art within a changing society with shifting cultures and values, defying the norms of regency england
