Natural Imagery

Question 1

Keats references Cupid to show the strength of Isabella’s and Lorenzo’s love - it also suggests that their love is not approved (relating to Keats’ social situation)
“____ roses by the ____ blow apart”

Answer 1

“Twin roses by the zephyr blown apart”

Question 2

Keats uses a lot of natural imagery to express their love and suggest some sexual acts, relating to the Romantic beliefs of beauty in nature
“I must ____ thy _____”
“____ warmth”
“____ flower”

Answer 2

“I must taste thy blossoms”
“ripe warmth”
“lusty flower”

Question 3

Keats illustrates the brother’s defilement of nature to further oppose readers against them
“They passed the ____ into a ____ quiet for the _____”
“They _____ their ____ in the water”

Answer 3

“They passed the water into a forest quiet for the slaughter”
“They dipped their swords in the water”

Question 4

Keats uses seasonal changes and negative natural imagery to convey Isabella’s despair
“breath of _____ comes”
“sick ____ continues”
“____ among the bushes and the _____”
“_____ Isabel by ____ decay from ____ fell”
“____ shroud”

Answer 4

“breath of Winter comes”
“sick west continues”
“death among the bushes and the leaves”
“sweet Isabel by gradual decay from beauty fell”
“snowy shroud”

Question 5

Keats combines nature and death to heighten the tragic experience and pathos felt by Romantics
“______-hearse”

Answer 5

“forest-hearse”