ode to psyche Flashcards

1
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‘o goddess! hear these tuneless numbers’

A

religious response

hierarchy

not worthy of her

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2
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‘by sweet enforcement and remembrance dear’

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euphonic

song is bad but doing it out of love

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3
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‘surely i dreamt to-day, or did i see’

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in between fantasy and reality

art allows us to transcend

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4
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‘i wander’d in a forest thoughtlessly’

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no purpose

carefree

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5
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‘whisp’ring roof’

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sibilance

rustling

nature’s secrets - humanity helpless against

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6
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‘tyrian’

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sleeping

royalty

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7
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‘they lay calm-breathing, on the bedded grass’

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spondee

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8
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‘their lips touch’d not, but had not bade adieu’

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purity

not consummated

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9
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‘aurorean love’

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dawn of relationship

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10
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‘his psyche true!’

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possessive pronoun

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11
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‘latest born and loveliest vision far’

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best out of everything

no other stories about her

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12
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‘olympus’ faded hierarchy’

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doesn’t get enough recognition

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13
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‘phoebe’

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the moon

both seen as the pinnacle of beauty

psyche better

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14
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‘pale mouth’d prophet dreaming’

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criticising organised religion

no one to sing about her - disrespectful

lack of worship

we need to nurture our individuality rather than feed into mass industrialisation

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15
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‘faint olympians’

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even though greek mythology is fading, he still appreciates it

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16
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‘i see, and sing, by my own eyes inspir’d

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we shouldn’t think that we won’t be remembered

17
Q

‘thy shrine, thy oracle, thy heat’

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asyndetic list

stream of consciousness

18
Q

‘untrodden region of my mind’

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not polluted by the industrial revolution

19
Q

‘pleasant pain’

20
Q

‘steep by steep’

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vast shrine

21
Q

‘zephyrs, streams, and birds and bees’

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nature

ideal world

22
Q

‘wide quietness’

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synaesthesia

23
Q

‘buds, and bells, and stars without a name’

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alliteration

so amazing they haven’t been discovered

24
Q

‘who breeding flowers, will never breed the same’

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no limitations

make it up as you go along

25
Q

structure

A

inconsistent rhyme scheme - unbridled

26
Q

headlines

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imagination is an escape from the industrial revolution

whoever we are, we will survive somehow

the freedom of imagination

there is no limit to imagination

the criticism of orthodox religion

the transcendent quality of art

the transcendent quality of nature

the vastness of imagination