Keats Flashcards
(12 cards)
What was the second generation romanticism exploring?
Power of the imagination, transformative role of poetry and the importance of nature
Has Keats been the first writer to use the nightingale as a subject?
Bird appears in the classical era eg The odyssey and the story of Philomela who is raped and mutilated. So the song is sorrowful as it is beautiful
When did Keats write his poem
After the American Revolution kf 1776 and French Revolution of 1789
What did Aritists often do during the romantic period?
Idealise the countryside and natural world
Describe Keats life
Parents and infant brother died. He later died from tuberculosis and struggled financially
When were all the odds written?
Astonishing burst of creativity during the spring of 1819
What was the debate around the British museum?
Written a century after the opening of the British museum. The ethical debate about the practice of institutions like British museum with the Greek government trying to get back the Elgin marbles
What was the key influence on ode on melancholy?
Robert Burtons Anatomy of Melancholy of 1621 a medical textbook linking melancholy and impermanence
What is the significance of allusions in the poem?
Greek/Roman myth grounds the poem in timelessness
When was sonnet on the sea written?
Isle of Wight in April 1817 as a restorative answer to the uproar rude of daily life where reviews wrote of Keats as a common cockney
How is the sea significant in sonnet of the sea?
Shakespeare imaginative visions of the sea in King Lear and The Tempest use the sea as a symbol of the unknown
What did the romantics view nature as?
Beyond a simple place to picnic but a source is wisdom and imaginative inspiration. Getting lost in nature was a way to remember there’s more to the world than the mechanical and the scientific
