Keats quotes

Question 1

Isabella: quotes about impact of distance in love

Answer 1

‘long month of may in this sad plight’
‘made their cheeks pale’
‘sick longing’
‘honeyless days’

Question 2

Isabella: Description of Isabella

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‘Poor, simple Isabel’

Question 3

Isabella: Isabella and Lorenzo’s love

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‘Her lute string gave an echo of his name’
‘Their love grew tenderer’
‘Love and misery’

Question 4

Isabella: Description of the brothers

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‘Hungry pride and gainful cowardice’
‘men of cruel clay’
‘each richer by his being a murderer’
‘Why were they proud?’ repeated
‘money bags’

Question 5

Isabella: The brothers’ intentions for Isabella

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‘Coax her by degrees’ ‘to some noble and his olive trees’

Question 6

Isabella: Weather once Lorenzo is to be dead

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‘Cold is in the skies’

Question 7

Isabella: Isabella’s heartache

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‘She weeps alone’
‘Passion not to be subdued’
‘Gradual decay from beauty fell’

Question 8

Isabella: Isabella’s reaction to Lorenzo’s corpse

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‘Upon the murderous spot she seemed to grow’
‘To dig more fervently’

Question 9

Isabella: How Isabella cars for Lorenzo’s corpse

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‘She calmed its wild hair’
‘She kissed, and wept’
‘Her tears kept ever wet’
‘She forgot the stars, the moon and the sun’

Question 10

Isabella: Lorenzo’s flourishing at Isabella’s expense

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‘She ever fed it with tears’ it became ‘thick’, ‘green’, ‘beautiful’.
‘she sat drooping’ as the plant ‘flourished’

Question 11

Isabella: the brothers’ perception of the plant and their fate

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‘Thing was vile’
‘Banishment’

Question 12

Isabella: Isabella’s death and legacy

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‘She died forlorn’
Her story passed ‘from mouth to mouth’

Question 13

LBD: State of the knight at the beginning of the poem

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‘Alone and palely loitering’
‘No birds sing’
‘What can ail thee, Knight?’

Question 14

LBD: The Knight’s power

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‘I met’
‘I made’
‘I set her on my pacing steed’
‘I shut her wild wild eyes’

Question 15

LBD: LBD’s power

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‘she took me to her elfin grot’
‘she found’
‘she lulled’

Question 16

LBD: Implication of the knight censoring LBD

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‘I shut her wild, wild eyes’
Makes her a ‘garland’ and ‘bracelets’

Question 17

LBD: Knight’s misinterpretation

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‘Sure in language strange’
‘She looked as me as she did love’
‘she wept’

Question 18

LBD: Natural, sensual, warm imagery and the bower

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‘Elfin grot’
‘honey wild’ ‘manna dew’ ‘rose’ ‘lily’

Question 19

LBD: What did the Knight see in his dream?

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‘Pale kings’
‘Pale warriors’
‘Death pale’

Question 20

LBD: Where does the Knight end up?

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‘Alone and palely loitering’ on a ‘cold hill side’
‘No birds sing’

Question 21

EOSA: Cold imagery at the opening of the poem

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‘Bitter chill’
‘Trembling’ ‘frozen’ ‘numb’
‘Frosted breath’

Question 22

EOSA: What does this cold imagery link to?

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Slow death of the Beadsman: ‘his weak spirit falls’

Question 23

EOSA: Warmth to contrast opening

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‘music’s golden tongue’
‘Ashes’

Question 24

EOSA: Porphyro’s love and yearning

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‘Heart on fire’
Wants to ‘gaze and worship’
‘Speak, kneel, touch, kiss’

Question 25

EOSA: Porphyro association with danger

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'Ventures in' 'Swords' 'Barbarian' 'hot blooded' 'howl'

Question 26

EOSA: Porphyro and sexuality

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'Flushing' 'Purple riot' 'passion' 'burning Porphyro' 'Porphyro, for gazing on that bed'

Question 27

EOSA: Madeline in a liminal state

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'Fatigued' 'Blissfully havened' 'Paradise' 'Slumberous tenderness'

Question 28

EOSA: Sibilance and food imagery for sensuality

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'Hushed carpet, silent, stepped'. 'Creamy curd' ''Syrup' and 'Cinnamon'

Question 29

EOSA: Implication of sex

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'Soft moan' 'Panted' 'Upon his knees he sank'

Question 30

EOSA: Madeline under spell/ in love

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'My Porphyro', 'my love'

Question 31

EOSA: The lovers' ending

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'Lovers fled into the storm' 'Like phantoms'

Question 32

EOSA: The beadsman's ending

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'Ashes cold'

Question 33

Lamia: Mythology in nature- other-worldly

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'Celestial heat' 'Lily' 'roses' 'flowers' 'nymph' 'satyr' 'dryads'

Question 34

Lamia: Lamia in her original form

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'snake' 'Dazzling hue', 'shone' vs 'demon' 'serpent' 'smooth lipped serpent' with 'melancholy eyes'

Question 35

Lamia: Lamia freeing the nymph

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'her loveliness invisible, yet free'

Question 36

Lamia: Foreshadowing of fate before the transformation

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'Grew pale, as mortal lovers do'

Question 37

Lamia: Imagery during transformation

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'Mouth foamed' 'madness' 'blood'

Question 38

Lamia: Lamia after transformation

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'Nothing but pain and ugliness were left' 'Her new voice luting and soft' 'lady bright', 'full-born beauty'

Question 39

Lamia: Lamia as an embodiment of impossible standards for women

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'Virgin purest' yet 'in the lore of love deep learned'

Question 40

Lamia: Disappointment of the mortal world

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'Where no joy is' 'empty of immortality and bliss' 'Temples lewd'

Question 41

Lamia: Lycius as victim

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'Murmuring of love' and 'pale with pain'

Question 42

Lamia: Lamia as a femme fatale

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'Cruel lady' 'tangled [Lycius' life'] in her mesh' 'enticed him'

Question 43

Lamia: Lamia changing in order to win over Lycius

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'threw the goddess off, and won his heart' by 'playing a woman's part'

Question 44

Lamia: description of Appolonius

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'Quick eyes' 'Sharp eyes' 'Philosophical gown' 'Ghost of folly haunting my sweet dreams'

Question 45

Lamia: Description of the bower preceding the downfall

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'Portal door' 'Place unknown' Narrator input: 'Short was their bliss' ;had Lycius lived'

Question 46

Lamia: Love a uplifting

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'airy' 'floated' 'golden' 'summer heaven'

Question 47

Lamia: Knowledge impeding on love and freedom

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'a moment's thought is passion's passing bell' 'Charms fly at the mere touch of philosophy' 'Unweave a rainbow'

Question 48

Lamia: Lamia adopting a submissive role

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'pale and meek' 'trembled' 'wept a rain of sorrows'

Question 49

Lamia: Lycius' reaction to Lamia taking on this new role

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'He took delight, luxurious in her sorrows'. His passion is described as 'cruel grown'

Question 50

Lamia: Lycius' myopia

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'Blind' 'painful blindness' 'Thee made into serpent's prey'