Comparative — Shared Concerns and Resonances (HSC SSCE English Advanced): Flashcards

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Comparative — Shared Concerns and Resonances
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Negative capability

Embracing mystery/ambiguity without seeking definite answers

Synaesthesia in poetry

Mingling of different sensory experiences

Synecdoche in film

Part represents whole (e.g., dress = entire emotion)

What killed Keats & at what age

Consumption (tuberculosis) at age 25

Chromatic emotional synecdoche

Colour as shorthand for complex emotional experience

Needlework semaphores

Visual communication via Fanny's sewing in film

Beauty-melancholy dialectic

Beauty & sadness are inseparable/interdependent

3 major Romantic preoccupations

Mortality vs eternity; erotic transcendence; beauty-melancholy

Seasonal authentics

Genuine natural settings vs artificial studio environments

Required poetry-film balance

50/50 coverage of poetry and film

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