JOHN KEATS: Sonnet on the sea Flashcards

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‘eternal whisperings around’

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sibilance onomatopoeia= impression of something spirirtual

mythical mysterious resemblance to religious chanting

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2
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‘might swell’

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‘whispers’ to ‘swell’ = power

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3
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‘keeps’ ‘gluts’ ‘caverns;

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seas protecting shores as benevolent deity protects people

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4
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‘hectate leaves them;

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Goddess of the moon, transitory nature of God and religon, nature however is forver

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5
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‘such gentle temper’

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forgive

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6
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‘winds of heaven were unbound’

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ironic full stop = society unwilling to accpet nature

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‘ye;

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direct address - aware of the entrapment and contriciton of city life readers expiercnfce
no use of I allows reader to connect wholisticalyl w nature

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8
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‘fed’ feast gluts

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lexical field of eating

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9
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‘sit;

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paradox giving something omnipotent and so big meditative and soothing charactersitics

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10
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‘sea nyphms

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advocate for tunring ordinary to extraordinary through mythologivsl imagery transfroms dull reality into beautiful
isnt simply exterious landscapes we can find beauty- interior landscape = imagination

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