Significance of Narrative Opening Flashcards
(22 cards)
Mermaid Tavern - Narrative Opening
Refrain - whole stanza
“Choicer than the mermaid tavern”
Begins and ends with question
Robin Hood - Narrative Opening
Begins with affirmation
“Those days are gone away”
Poem has a firm stance to be argued; Different as others are explorations
“Gone” “Honour”
To Autumn - Narrative Opening
Major turns (volta)
“Where are the songs of spring”
Possess possibility of a shift and opposes it
Simply recognizes and appreciates
Volta - turn of though or argument
Major turns are instrumental in developing the poem’s meaning in the latter is leads to a moral conclusion
Ode on Melancholy - Narrative Opening
Deleted first stanza
Focuses on a character
Without; makes the poem more ambiguous
See as - EX. Duck rabbit; when the objective features are ambiguous we see one thing or another according to the impression that is the minds eye
Ode to a Nightengale - Narrative Opening
Symbol - the nightingale. Represents something by being part of a larger whole. The larger entity in which the symbol participates and for which it stands is not a material whole but an idea. Represents the inevitable mortality of the speaker
Positive because mortality is an implication of invidiuality. Does not include the mythology of Philomena in story. Common for Keats: To not be bound by the impression of something
Ode to Psyche - Narrative Opening
Speaker demonstrates an inward reflection. Psyche symbolically represents the soul by mythology
“By my own eyes”
This is not a social norm, celebrates and explores psychology. wordsworth;
Reflective of experimenting with structure
Not horatian but an irregular ode (no two stanza’s are alike)
Focus on the mind - to clarify Psyche
Theogony - an account of the birth or origin of GOds
Similar - Apollo at the end of Hyperion “knowledge enormous makes a god of me”
Isabella - Narrative Opening
Letter to woodhouse. Political character, chameleon poet
Lyric narrative - often authors views
has dramatic element
Keats - it is a constitutional necessity
compares to wordsworth
Men on Genius vs Men of Power
Stillinger Diagram from the Hoodwinking of Isabella
Goes from actual, to ideal, then reality
Takes off to the ideal can not remain there and comes back but not the same
Fancy - Narrative Opening
Begins with a controversial opening
“Pleasure never is at home”
Radical political message: Treason/adultery
However, because Keats believes in the chameleon poet - is it understood that this message can not be inferred this way?
Lamia - Narrative Opening
Difference between narrative to plot
Narrative order
- Lamia’s prior/initial meeting with Lycius
-Hiding of the nymph
Plot: extracting the important
-Full of enchantment, setting the stage of mythology used throughout the entire collection
-Leaves out the story behind Lamia and how she became a serpent, and the evil she did in the original story to create a more sympathetic character
Context to actions aka unified plot
Exposition/rising action/climax/falling action/denounces (Freytag’s Pyramid)
- Enables plot to fit this form
- bargain - wedding - apollonius - death
Ode on a Grecian Urn - Narrative Opening
“sylvan historian” - expresses how he will speak for the “silent” urn. Tells its story by his own interpretation
Ekphrasis - rhetorical device in which one medium of art tries to relate to another medium of art by defining and describing its essence and form… a poem portray a picture
- represents his lack of negative capability. cannot just view and appreciate its beauty
Keats speakers commonly lack this
Ode (Bards of mirth and passion) - Narrative Opening
First four lines are a rehtorical question
Becomes certain in the end by restating. Utilizes exclamation point instead of question mark
This is a refrain
Creates emphasis, shift from uncertainty to certainty
Keats works as a whole are a search for answers
Rondeau
All written in catalectic trochaic tetrameter couples (4 trochees)
Rondeau is a poetic form that originates in medieval and renaissance France, involves complex patterns of single or multiple refrains
- he follows this loosely throughout
Ode and Fancy are often thought of as a pair. He wrote them at the same time and he wrote Mermaid Tavern and Robin Hood at the same time, broke up by Isabella
He places them specifically and the fact all 4 lighter poems are together when he split up the odes means he wanted them to be seen together
The odes
Pindaric Ode- different stanza forms alternating the ABC patter (correspond with chorus song in Greek frama) strophe - anti-strophe - epode
The horatian ode - roman Horace - every stanza has the same form; closely relate to the hymm
The “ragged/ irregular” ode - Cowley, more free-formed stanza’s, each different from the other.
Feature: turn; shifts in mood, focus, address or direction; can be explicit
N+OG - idealizing object, reflecting continually on self
ALL HORATIAN ODES EXCEPT PSYCHE
not necessarily intended to be read as a series
Ekphrasis
The representation of visual arts in writing
Restricted modern definition: rhetorical device, one medium tries to relate to another
GU: painting - visual, words - temporal, seeking an improvement
Medieval romance
Courtly and chivalric. Common quest of a knight, magic/enchantment, super natural
Revived romance
Belated explanation (Disenchantment)
Framed, nested narratives
Internalization of romance (dream)
Negative capability
Capacity to suspend judgement
Pyrrho - does not recommend suspending judgement, rather put an unanswerable question aside permanently
Bacon - S of J can be tentitive and instrumental
Keats - not through carelessness, but through deliberate design to inspire speculation
LIESA as a collection
- third and final volume 1820
became popular 20 yrs after death
Early, poor reviews - prejudice
13 poems, 3 romance, 3 odes, 4 rondeaus, 2 more odes, hyperion
shelley died with LIESA in pocket
Title, demonstrates 4 feminine names, apology (hyperion) a lie
To George and Georgina Keats
April/May 1819. Quest for a better sonnet stanza
Ode to Psyche
- quest for different sonnet stanza, changed/excluded O.Psyche from his other odes in regard to format
Dashed of lines in a hurry - reads more richly, hope to encourage to write more as it was causing him pain
Keats to Woodhouse. Oct 1818
Political character an chameleon poet
Chameleon Poet - poet has no identity, constantly filling another body, can be anything
Keats to George and Tom Keats. Dec 1817
Negative capability
Negative capability - when a man is being capable of being in uncertainties, mystery, doubt, without any reaching after fact and reason
Keats to Reynolds. May 1818.
Problem of evil and thinking into the heart
Ignorance is bliss
the search for knowledge is a dark disenchantment of the world (relates to Isabella, Eve of St Agnes)
