ModA

Question 1

Creative fulfilment
- establishes mortality
- central concern for Romanticists who grappled with fleeting nature of life due to rev.

Answer 1

“fears that I may cease to be / before my pen has gleaned my teeming brain”

Question 2

• Romantics association with nature
• metaphorical ___ of desire to capture abundant ideas before they are lost

Answer 2

“gleaned”

Question 3

Rich imagery, a sense of apprehension
- symbolic of intellectual pursuits
- metaphorical connections to worldly ambitions
- ___ connotations to ___
- tension between ambitions and mortality

Answer 3

“high-piled books / chariot wheels”

Question 4

Lack of poetic fulfilment
- intertextuality to Shakespeare’s ____
- allusion of isolation
- mortality

Answer 4

“on the shore of the wide world I stand alone”
“as the waves make towards the pebbl’d shore…hasten to their end”

Question 5

Motif of butterflies
- ephemeral nature of love and its beauty

Answer 5

• Fanny’s hair
• room when reading letter
• dead in her room

Question 6

Diegetic sounds
- immerses us into world of reflection on fleeting nature of life

Answer 6

Keats’ contemplation under tree

Question 7

Interplay of light and shadow
- sense of transience
- fleeting movement in existing moments

Answer 7

Keats’ contemplation under tree

Question 8

Ballad opens with
- allusion to desolate landscape
- devoid of vitality
- mirroring emotional state

Answer 8

“palely loitering / withered”

Question 9

Entrapment and cyclical life
- uncertainty
- consequences of obsession

Answer 9

“the sedge withered from the lake…and no birds sing”

Question 10

Long shot + close up shot
- forest like setting (reimagined frame)
- longing and infatuation (impermanence)

Answer 10

couple immersed, kiss

Question 11

Mis en scene
- inner expression of isolation
- emotional distance
converses with “death-pale” (winter snow)
- mortality

Answer 11

sleet winter snow, walking whilst reading Bright Star