Keats Flashcards

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# isabella two...

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close hebrews | money obsessed

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beautiful lady who shows no mercy

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palely loitering | lost sense of purpose, waiting for death

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lady in the meads, full beautiful - a farery's child | supernatural elements paused to think about her beatuy

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garland for her head and bracletrs too | marrige, worship, emasculating, possessibe

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a fading rose fast withered too | colour fading from his face, dying, love sick

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else saw all day long | hermatia - loves her too much

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sighed full sore | femme fatale - appears as vulnerable but deceptive/ seductive

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has withered and no birds sing | cyclical, life and death

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grannery is full | winter, cold, betrayal - abandonment

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was long her foot was light | seduced by her sexuality, phsyical, natural

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on my pacing steed | conventional, courting her traditionally

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princes... warriors | dreamt, victims of femme fatale

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poetry illusion/dream

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keats poet dreamer ego

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philosopher reason/reality public

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being ok with not knowing stuff pure experience of emotions withot asking too many questions reason vs passion

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Lamia- was a queen, ends p dead Lycius - lost all he had for public declaration of love, that lamia never really wanted

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serpant, but the words she spake came, as through bubbling honey, for loves sake

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sweet body fit for life and love and pleasure... of heart and lips... ah miserable me!

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shape of dazzling hue, vermillion-spotted, golden, green and blue

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mistress, or the devil herself | foreshadowning to her manipulative nature

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a star in water | simile, out of place, will get extinguished, foreshawos

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in mine and labyrinth you there | mistreatment of women, in a patriarchial society, seeks to imprison ## Footnote Alludes to King Minos, who imprisoned the Minotaur in a labyrinth - part animal, part human

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I have no friends... no, not one | isolation, ignored q about her name, as this would reveal her form

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Lycius was gone to summon all his kin Isolation Abandons Lamia in a world she does not know - heavy with pathos Emphasises her loneliness Juxtaposition between all of Lycius' family and Lamia's complete loneliness - catharsis & pathos

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I see thee made a serpent's prey | tragic victim, preditor prey complex, makes her looks villanous

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isabel, poor simple isabel! | first line of the poem

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If looks speak love-laws His love for Isabella is more important than social convention. The neat compound noun 'love-laws', suggest that love has its own rules, and is capable of overcoming social boundaries

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ancestral merchandise' They have inherited wealth from trading. The description 'ancestral' suggests the brothers have not worked hard themselves but have inherited wealth from their forebears. Critique of capitalism from Keats- he was a romantic poet so would have disliked people earning money in this way.

Answer 31

''servant of trade designs'' ''their sister's love'' The brothers are bitter that Lorenzo should be in such a position, beloved of Isabella. The addition of 'and his olive-trees' is a wry comment. The brothers are only interested in the wealth their sister's potential husband has to offer. Class discrimination- doesn't want them to be together due to his lower class. Possesive pronoun ''their'' suggests Isabella is their posession- patriarchal society.

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inevitability, he is already a "murder'd man" just by accepting the request to travel with the brothers to the forest.Could also bring about the fated aspect of tragedy - their love was doomed from the beginning, it was certain to result in his death The alliterative "m"s in murdered binds the two words togethe. There is no way can escape from his fate as it is prescribed in his descriptions. He is completely controlled by the brothers.

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''feverish unrest'' Love is depicted as physical love sickness. Isabella still doesnt know that he is really dead.

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''sweet Isabel by gradual decay from beauty fell'' A typical tragic trope; Isabella pines and grows ill and debilitated from grief. The narrator uses the adjective "sweet" rather than "fair". Isabella is now more mature and has lost innocence. Link to Keats' own life (tuberculosis)

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''a brother's bloody knife!'' anagnorisis for izzy, The contempt of the speaker is expressed in the alliterative, plosive 'b's.

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''and still she comb'd and kept (...) and still she kissed and wept'' This anticipates Isabella's obsessive behaviour and her narcissistic love for Lorenzo's decapitated head, which she now begins to cherish like a woman protecting her baby. Maternal imagery, conveying that Isabella has been robbed of the opportunity of being a mother emphasising her loss and suffering

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''She forgot the stars, the moon, the sun'' The idea of Isabella forgetting the 'stars, the moon, and sun,' may represent the passing of time as well as nature and how this is now lost to her. This is also exemplified by the later line in this stanza that 'she had no knowledge when the day was done,' Furthermore, the repetition of 'And she forgot' may serve to emphasise the extent of the impact that Lorenzo's death has had on her and how nothing else matters to her apart from him. Additionally the 'stars moon and sun' are all sources of light, which is often associated with a heavenly or divine being. Forgetting these symbolic beings might suggest that Isabella is turning her back away from God and moving towards the dark - the realm of the devil. The incremental repetition suggests she has become consumed and blinded by the Basil. It could suggest she has lost a sense of self, and the repetition also reduces the pace of the poem. Suggests continual heartache. Furthermore, it conveys the dissociation between Isabella and the natural World, contrasting with the unnaturalness of their relationship. turning away from religion, but this is also significant since she was presented as quite pious at the beginning of the poem. This shows her tragic downfall, since she is now worshipping Lorenzo rather than a God.

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