Reading Keats Poetry

Question 1

Keats produced some of the greatest and most enduring poems in the English language. Keats’ position ‘among the ______ _______’ has remained secure.

Answer 1

English poets

Question 2

What historical event is said to generally be considered to be at the same time as the Romantic period?

Answer 2

same time as the French Revolution 1789 ending at the beginning of Victoria’s reign in 1837

Question 3

During the Victorian are Keats was read for his luxuriant and sensuous language for the striking pictorial effects of such poems as …?

Answer 3

“The Eve of St.Agnes”

Question 4

Why was Keats’ poetry secure even in the 1920/30’s widespread reaction against 19th century Romantic poets?

Answer 4

as he was considered less absorbed than other Romantics with the political events of his time, and more concerned with the universals

Question 5

What is tragic about the way Keats writes his poetry?

Answer 5

it is marked by an overwhelming awareness of the impermanence and despair of the human condition

Question 6

Beauty is seen as the sensuous, temporal embodiment of such transient truth, some unknown reality beyond the world of…?

Answer 6

experience

Question 7

Keats is able to convey the most abstract of his ideas in the most concrete and vividly _______ forms.

Answer 7

pictorial