Keats — Themes, Ideas, and Emotional Experience (HSC SSCE English Advanced): Flashcards
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Negative capability
Negative capability
Accepting uncertainty without demanding resolution
Keats's 3 core themes
Keats's 3 core themes
Mortality/eternity, sensory escape, beauty-melancholy
Harvest metaphor in 'When I have fears'
Harvest metaphor in 'When I have fears'
Gleaning = gathering ideas from teeming brain
Voyager simile in Chapman's Homer
Voyager simile in Chapman's Homer
Reading Homer like discovering a new planet
Beauty-melancholy relationship in Keats
Beauty-melancholy relationship in Keats
Inseparable—transience makes beauty precious & sad
Unheard melodies (Grecian Urn)
Unheard melodies (Grecian Urn)
Sweeter than heard—imagination surpasses reality
Magic casements (Nightingale)
Magic casements (Nightingale)
Visionary portal to perilous seas in faery lands
'Beauty is truth' (Grecian Urn)
'Beauty is truth' (Grecian Urn)
Equivocal axiom—deliberately ambiguous, unresolved
Anaphoric repetition in La Belle Dame
Anaphoric repetition in La Belle Dame
'Pale'/'death-pale' shows beauty's life-draining power
'Load every rift with ore'
'Load every rift with ore'
Pack poetry with sensory detail—value intensity over duration