Keats Context

Question 1

Keat’s writing

Answer 1

• The complicated dialectics between fantasy and reality is a structuring principle of much of Keat’s poetry.

Question 2

Keat’s influence

Answer 2

• Extremely influenced by Shakespeare.
• Giovanni Boccaccio (Isabella; or the pot of Basil)
• John Milton
• Aldin Chartier (La Belle Dame sans Merci (1424).
• Virgil
• Ovid
• Edmund Spenser
• Thomas Chatterton

Question 3

Keat’s Family

Answer 3

• Keats lost his mother in 1810 when he was 14 years old.
• Keats lost his Brother to TB

Question 4

Keat’s Life

Answer 4

Tuberculosis:
Keats lost his mother in 1810 when he was 14 years old.
Keats lost his Brother to TB in
Keat suffered fromTB in1819 while writing some of his most renowned poems such as: ‘Lamia,’

Question 5

Keat’s love

Fanny Brawne

Answer 5

A woman Keats loved pertained to a higher class than Keats.
- Fanny and Keats were engaged when
Keats wrote his most famous collection of poems:
‘La Belle Dame sans Merci,’ and ‘Lamia,’

Question 6

The Eve of St Agnes

Answer 6

• St Agnes was the Patron Saint of virgins, rape victims, young women and engaged couples.
• “St Agnes’ Eve” is January 20th, as St Agnes died on January 21st in 304 A.D.
• The myth of “St Agnes’ Eve” is a story that says that a young girl, or an unmarried woman, will dream of her future husband on the Eve of St Agnes. And, before retiring to bed, they will perform rituals and routines to ensure that they dream of their future husband.

Question 7

Negative Capability

Answer 7

• To accept “uncertainties, mysteries, doubts, without any irritable reaching after fact and reason,”
• Keats particularly admired Shakespeare for this.
• Keats first named this term in a letter from 1817 to his brothers George and Tom.
• Keats believed that the world could and would never be fully understood, let alone controlled.
• To Keats, pride and arrogance must be avoided at all costs, as he believed it stunted a person’s ability to learn and grow.

Question 8

Romanticism

Answer 8

• Opposed The Age of Enlightenment and logical thought.
• Romantic Movement spanning from the late 18th Century and early 19th Century.
• Notable Romantic Poets: William Wordsworth, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Percy Bysshe Shelley, William Blake, and Lord Byron.
• Romantic Poets aimed to produce work that expressed spontaneous feelings, found parallels to theirown emotional lives in the natureworld, and celebrated creativity.