English literature

Question 1

Context for Keats Historical

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1789 the revolutionary movement of literature and art 🖼

Question 2

Social context who did he meet

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Met Fanny Browne 1816 and was engaged to her December

Question 3

Social context Fanny

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Plans to marry but due to financial crisis and illness an ambivalent relationship with women fearing they would. Take him away from his poetry, but also fearing a lack of fulfilliment of love.

Question 4

Literacy and artistic. Equivalent to the French Revolution rebelling against conventional poetic and political institutions ( swap )

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Romanticism valued feeling over reason and investigation into the individual self

Question 5

Romanticism

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Keats admired Wordsworth for ability for incorporate the misery of the world into a transcendent vision , ( mystical vision) he believed in negative capability ( letter. To his brothers December 1817)

Question 6

Hellenism definition

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National character of culture Greece and especially. Ancient Greece of humanistic and classical ideas. , including reason , pursuit of knowledge arts and moderation , etc Keats himself read lempieres classic dictonary and Greek Sculpture , evidence of Accident Greek in Belle dem Merce Ode on Grecian Urne.

Question 7

Belle dem Merci

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Literacy Features 12 quatrains. ,alternating in iambic pentremeter , ABCB rhyme scheme

Question 8

Feminism reading

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It can be argued this is an Anti feminism poem reflecting poems idea of female feminism , cretics focus on the “fiery child “ and question the power relations and , their is curiousity especially given the 19th century eg the ambivalent relationship with Fany. Extremely significant in showing the allegorical meanings with contradictions within Belle dame in terms of patriarchal society.

Question 9

Feminism reading

Answer 9

It can be argued this is an Anti feminism poem reflecting poems idea of female feminism , cretics focus on the “fiery child “ and question the power relations and , their is curiosity especially given the 19th century eg the ambivalent relationship with Fany. Extremely significant in showing the allegorical meanings with contradictions within Belle dame in terms of patriarchal society. Eg use of “lulled “ ambitious nature iideas of softness like ( lullabie send child to sleep. , yet almost dull seductive and deceptive