Keats Flashcards
(7 cards)
Keats quotes
“Oh for a life of sensations than of thoughts”
“Do you not see how necessary a world of pains is to school an intelligence”
Walter Jackson Bate
“Poetry is a miniature drama”
Must include
Alt readings
New/old readings
Necessarian
Douglas Bush
Sheats
Richard Fogle
Keats Quotes
Context
Necessarian reading of Urn
Sexual violence
Keats distinguishes himself from the urn
Claims poem is of over indulgence and excitement in the senses 9 leading to sexual violence
“burning forehead” is a sign of weakness within human passion
Sheats Urn
Apprentication of the poetic form
permanent nature of the urn reflects unchanging ability of the urn to evoke emotion, particularly passion
Fogle nightingale
“The principle stress of the poem is a struggle between actual and ideal”
“Drugged dull pain in lines l-4 is a frame and a contrast of the poigant pleasure of the climax”D
`Douglas Bush
“sadness of mutability” is a common theme across Keats odes