Keats Poetry

Question 1

Examples of references to sound in Isabella?

Answer 1

“rill” “lute-string” “love’s tune” “dewy rhyme”

Question 2

Examples of references to taste in Isabella?

Answer 2

“honeyless” “sweet” “taste the blossoms” “delicious love” “honeyed dart” “the little sweet doth kill much bitterness” “there is richest juice in posion-flowers”

Question 3

Examples of references to temperature in Isabella?

Answer 3

“from wintry cold to summer clime” “ripe warmth”

Question 4

Examples of references to illness in Isabella?

Answer 4

“sick longing” “sad plight made their cheeks paler” “fell sick” “fell thin” “how ill she is” “fevered” “waxing very pale and dead” “all flushed”

Question 5

Examples of religious allusion in Isabella?

Answer 5

“a young palmer” “constantly vespers” “did pray for the power to speak” “my passion shrive”

Question 6

Examples of semantic field of death in Isabella?

Answer 6

“embalmed” “lilies” “waxing very pale and dead” “slaughter” “slain and buried” “ghostly” “sepulchre” “ murderous spite” “deadly dark” “gradual decay” “skull, coffined bones and funeral” “hungry Death” “human soul”

Question 7

How are the antagonists (brothers) described in Isabella?

Answer 7

“money-bags” “men of cruel clay” who “cut mercy with a sharp knife to the bone” “hawks” “ledger-men” “hungry pride and gainful cowardice” “quick cat’s-paws”