Sonnet on the Sea

Question 1

Key Concepts

Answer 1

• nature is the solution for those wearied by modern life

- laments that man has forsaken nature for the city

Question 2

STRUCTURE

Answer 2

-repeated rhyme scheme = movement of the sea

Question 3

‘keeps eternal whisperings’

Answer 3

Spiritual / pagan

Sibilance, mythical mysterious feeling

Question 4

keeps’ ‘gluts’ ‘caverns’

Answer 4

Seas protecting shores

Benevolent deity protects its people

‘god in nature’ ‘hectate- transitory nature of gods and religions, nature however is ‘eternal’

Question 5

‘desolate shores

Answer 5

Nature abandoned by man

Question 6

‘eye balls’ ‘ears’

Answer 6

Senses, personification first mention of humans

This is where enjambment stops, before enjambment = untamed unbounded nature of the sea

Therefore showing how society is tamed and bound

Question 7

‘oh ye!’

Answer 7

Direct address- awareness of entrapment and constriction of city life

No use of personal pronouns ‘i’ - allows reader to connect wholistically with nature

Question 8

sea nymphs’

Answer 8

Keats advocate turning ordinary into extraordinary- through mythological imagery transforming dull reality into something beautiful