Ode To Autumn Flashcards

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What year -autumn

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1819

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As a romantic poet what did he focus on -autumn

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Romanticism: Nature, Beauty, Truth, Mortality

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What did Keats ode to -autumn

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Keats’ odes allude to an ancient Greek, Arcadian past, with a focus on sensuousness and the beauty of the Imagination.

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Why was Keats so aware of death -autumn

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Keats’ awareness of death – nursing his brother who died of TB; his loss of his parents; sense of his own illness and mortality (dying aged 26 in 1821).

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What did he think of the industry of agriculture -autumn

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Impact of industry on agricultural practice
Keats: “the truth is there is something real in the world” (on his brother’s sickness)

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