Module A

Question 1

Brown and Fanny - Fannys artform

Answer 1

“The well stitched little miss Brawne” - Brown
“I don’t shake hands with the enemy.” - Fanny
“Your offences to my fashion, Mr Brown, to which I am so helplessly slavish… her obsession with flounce and cross stitch”
“My stitching has more merit and admirers than your two scribblings put together… and I can make money from it.”

Question 2

Keats and women

Answer 2

“I’m not sure I have the right feelings towards women. I am suspicious of my feelings.”

“All women confuse me, even my mother”

“I yearn to be ruined by shrews and saved by angels.”

Question 3

The sublime

Answer 3

“A poem needs understanding through the senses”

“It is an experience beyond thought”

“The point of diving in a lake is not immediately to swim to the shore, but to be in the lake, to luxuriate in the sensation of water. You do not work the lake out.”

Question 4

Brown undermines Fanny

Answer 4

“Fanny who makes a religion of flirting.”
“She can’t speak because she only knows how to flirt and sew.”
Mid shot of Brown pointing and accusing

Question 5

reading la belle

Answer 5

“I fear the disease has the upper hand.”

Question 6

Imagining a life they will not have

Answer 6

“Then why are you leaving, why must you go”
“Let’s pretend I will return in spring… We will live in the country… and our bedroom will look out onto a little apple orchard and beyond that a mountain and a mist”
Aerial shot of the two lying on the bed facing each other - arms intertwined.

Question 7

When I have fears - fame is worth nothing

Answer 7

“Till love and fame to nothingness do sink.”

Question 8

La Belle - Mortality - imagery of decay

Answer 8

“I saw their starved lips in the gloam, / With horrid warning gapèd wide,”

Question 9

To Autumn - symbolism season ending

Answer 9

“Or by a cyder-press, with patient look, / Thou watchest the last oozings hours by hours.”

Question 10

Immortality of the nigthingale - Apostrophe

Answer 10

“Thou wast not born for death, immortal Bird! / No hungry generations tread thee down;”

Question 11

Ode on a Grecian Urn

Answer 11

“Fair youth, beneath the trees, thou canst not leave / Thy song, nor ever can those trees be bare; / Bold Lover, never, never canst thou kiss,” - enjambment, imagery, symbolism
“Ah, happy, happy boughs! that cannot shed / Your leaves, nor ever bid the Spring adieu;” - repetition, enjambment, symbolism

Question 12

When I have fears - fair creature - rhyme

Answer 12

“And when I feel, fair creature of an hour! / That I shall never look upon thee more, / Never have relish in the faery power / Of unreflecting love!”

Question 13

La Belle recitation

Answer 13

“O what can ail thee, knight-at-arms, / Alone and palely loitering? / The sedge has withered from the lake, / And no birds sing.” - wintry, black landscape + stillness and quiet
“O what can ail thee, knight-at-arms,” - incremented repetition
“I met a lady in the meads, / Full beautiful—a faery’s child, / Her hair was long, her foot was light, / And her eyes were wild.” - allegory for his personal rebellion
“She took me to her Elfin grot, / And there she wept and sighed full sore, / And there I shut her wild wild eyes / With kisses four.” - repetition of wild, rhyme
Shift of mid shots between the two.

Question 14

Ode to a Nightingale - apostrophe of nightingale - imaginative flight.

Answer 14

“Away! away! for I will fly to thee, / Not charioted by Bacchus and his pards, / But on the viewless wings of Poesy,”

Question 15

When I have fears -Keats recites

Answer 15

“When I have fears that I may cease to be / Before my pen has gleaned by teeming brain, / Before high-piled books, in charactery, / hold like rich garners the full-ripened grain…”

“Huge cloudy symbols of high romance… I apologise I’ve gone blank.”

Question 16

The Eve of St Agnes - Fanny recites to brown

Answer 16

“Out went the taper as she hurried in; / Its little smoke, in pallid moonshine, died: / She closed the door, she panted, all akin / To spirits of the air, and visions wide…” - rhyme, image of illusion “to spirits of the air” + sensory experience - dream/cold imagery. + close up of Fanny

Question 17

The valentine - Keats dialogue

Answer 17

“There is a holiness to the hearts affections, know you nothing of that?”

Close up of Keats holding Brown up against tree

Question 18

Ode to A Nightingale - 1st stanza + Keats recites in the garden

Answer 18

“My heart aches, and a drowsy numbness pains / My sense, as though of hemlock I had drunk, / or emptied some dull opiate to the drains…”

Question 19

Ode to a Nightingale - synesthesia (2 quotes)

Answer 19

“‘That thou, light-winged Dryad of the trees, / In some melodious plot / Of beechen green, and shadows numberless, / Singest of summer in full-throated ease.”

“O for a beaker full of the warm South, / Full of the true, the blushful Hippocrene, / With beaded bubbles winking at the brim, / And purple-stained mouth;”

Question 20

Ode to A Nightingale - Mortality - life and aging

Answer 20

The weariness, the fever, and the fret / Here, where men sit and hear each other groan; / Where palsy shakes a few, sad, last gray hairs, / Where youth grows pale, and spectre-thin, and dies;”

“Where Beauty cannot keep her lustrous eyes, / Or new Love pine at them beyond to-morrow.”

“Darkling I listen; and, for many a time / I have been half in love with easeful Death, / Called him soft names in many a mused rhyme, / To take into the air my quiet breath; / Now more than ever seems it rich to die, / To cease upon the midnight with no pain, / … In such an ecstasy!”

Question 21

To Autumn - Fullness, bountiful harvest

Answer 21

“Season of mists and mellow fruitfulness, / Close bosom-friend of the maturing sun, / Conspiring with him how to load and bless / With fruit the vines that round the thatch-eves run; / To bend with apples the mossed cottage-trees, / And fill all fruit with ripeness to the core; / To swell the gourd, and plump the hazel shell”

Question 22

ode on a grecian urn - timelessness/ unchanged + aural imagery / perfect existence

Answer 22

“Heard melodies are sweet, but those unheard / Are sweeter; therefore, ye soft pipes, play on; “

” For ever piping songs for ever new;
/ More happy love! more happy, happy love! / For ever warm and still to be enjoyed, / For ever panting, and for ever young -“

Question 23

La Belle - solitude

Answer 23

“And this is why I sojourn here, / Alone and palely loitering, / Though the sedge is withered from the lake, / And no birds sing.”

Question 24

Bright Star - Keats recites + Fanny recites at end

Answer 24

“Bright star! would I were steadfast as thou art— / Not in lone splendour hung aloft the night / And watching, with eternal lids apart,”
tracking shot of Fanny as she walks through bleak wintry woods.

“No—yet still stedfast, still unchangeable, / Pillow’d upon my fair love’s ripening breast, / To feel for ever its soft swell and fall, / Awake for ever in a sweet unrest, / Still, still to hear her tender-taken breath, / And so live ever—or else swoon to death.”
Close up of hands intertwined.
Mid shot of Keats lying on Fanny’s breast.

Question 25

Keats and Fanny - share a love of playful imagination

Answer 25

“It’s a fairy princess” - she “drew behind the wall”

“Should I feed her?” - Keats

Question 26

Dinner scene - Keats recites when I have fears

Answer 26

“When I have fears that I may cease to be / Before my pen has gleaned my teeming brain, / Before high-pilèd books, in charactery, / Hold like rich garners the full-ripened grain; / When I behold, upon the night’s starred face, / Huge cloudy symbols of a high romance.. I apologise I’ve gone blank.” → Campion allows the poetry to flow conversationally but diffidently from his lips, so that they have more emotional impact

Question 27

Fanny’s confrontation with death

Answer 27

Contrast of wide open pastoral scenes to scenes of mortality.
Mid shot from doorway of Keats embracing his brother
Close up of Fanny’s face - sadness

Question 28

Awe of nature visually captured

Answer 28

Full shot of kids catching butterflies
long shot of Keats playing with toots in the field
Camera inside window looking out (voyeuristic) at Keats Fanny and the kids - imagery of nature/ celebration of nature

Question 29

Fanny and Keats love

Answer 29

Close ups of Keats and Fanny on either side of wall - yearning, passion, love, connection
Full shot of Keats and Fanny amongst the flowering trees stealing a moment to hold hands while toots turns around.
Full shot of Fanny in front of window - curtain blowing - joy, innocence, serenity, euphoria, bliss of being in love

Question 30

Campion visually captures poetic ideals - nightingale etc.

Answer 30

Low angle shot of Keats climbing flower treetop, mimicking nightingales song.

Aerial shot - Keats lying on flowery tree top, sunlight on his face, basking in the sun, warmth of the sun, shoes off to feel, he immerses himself in the senses,

Question 31

Parallel artforms

Answer 31

Keats composes poetry - close up of writing - amongst nature - non-diegetic recital + diegetic birds, breeze. (Ode to Nightingale)
Full shot of Fanny sitting and stitching.
Cross cuts between two shots.

Question 32

Keats and Fanny love letters

Answer 32

“Ask yourself my love, whether you are not very cruel to have so entramelled me, so destroyed my freedom”

“I know not how to express my emotion to so fair a form, I want a brighter word than bright, a fairer word than fair. I almost wished we were butterflies and lived but three summer days. Three such days with you I could fill with more delight than fifty common years could ever contain”

Question 33

Childlike innocence

Answer 33

Butterfly catching - full shot - in the fields

Fanny and Toots lying in field of lavender - Fanny shows affection - embrace and kiss.

Question 34

Butterflies

Answer 34

Close up of butteflies in jars - metaphor for restrained love - economic boundaries that prevent them from marrying
Close up of dead butterflies being sweeped up - pain, anguish, heartbreak + confronting reminder of death.

Question 35

Keats death and legacy

Answer 35

High angle shot of coffin at spanish steps in rome.
Final credits text:
“Fanny Brawne walked the Heath for many years, often far into the night. She never forgot John Keats or removed his ring.”
“Keats died at twenty five, believing himself a failure. Today he is recognised as one of the greatest of the Romantic Poets.”