Keats revision

What type of sonnet is ‘O Solitude’?

Petrachan sonnet

What are the key themes in ‘O Solitude’?

Companionship in solitude.

Inspiration in nature vs the city.

What are the Romantic ideas in ‘O Solitude’?

Solitude as being essential for creativity.

Nature as being inspiring and restorative

When did Keats write ‘O Solitude’?

1816

When did Keats write ‘On the Sea’?

1817

What is the key theme in ‘On the Sea’

The power and mystery surrounding the Sea.

What type of Sonnet is ‘On the Sea’?

Petrarchan Sonnet

What Romantic ideas are there in ‘On the Sea’?

The Sea being capable of inspiring awe and fear.

Keats seeks to withdraw into Nature (Sea)

When did Keats write ‘In Dreary-nighted December’?

December 1817

What are the Romantic ideas in ‘In Dreary-Nighted December’?

Reflects on Nature - but this time looks at differences, Nature does not mourn.

Sorrow is prolonged by Memory - Keatsian Romantic.

What are the Key themes in ‘In Dreary-Nighted December’?

Resilience of Nature - not affected by cold.

Humans feel pain and remember it.

When was Keats’ poem ‘Ode to a Nightingale’ written and published (two years)

written 1819. Published 1820.

When did Thomas Keats die?

1818

When did Keats know he had Tuberculosis?

February 1820

What does Keats’ friend Charles Brown recall Keats saying in February 1820?

“That drop of blood is my death warrant;- I must die.”

What are the key themes in ‘Ode to a Nightingale’

Immorality of the Nightingale’s song

Power of art - immortality of art - song.

wants to be remembered - mortality

When did Keats’ write ‘Ode to a Nightingale’

May 1819

What are the Romantic ideas in ‘Ode to a Nightingale’?

Sublime beauty of nature.

Immortality of art compared with Morality of the artist.

When did Keats’ write ‘Ode to a Grecian Urn’?

1819

What are the key themes in ‘Ode to a Grecian Urn’?

Immortality of Art

Does Art reveal truth? - final line

What are the Romantic ideas in ‘Ode to a Grecian Urn’?

Romantic Hellenism

Urn becomes powerful after artists interpretation

When did Keats write ‘When I have fears that I may cease to be’?

January 1818

What are the key themes in ‘When I have fears…’?

Fear of death

Lack of time - unfilled.

forgotten

What are the Romantic ideas in ‘When I have fears?’

Mortality

Nature as a metaphor for creativity

When did Keats write ‘to sleep’?

April 1819

What are the key themes in ‘To Sleep’?

Sleep as renewal and rest.

Sleep as an escape.

Mortality

What is the structure of ‘To Sleep’?

Petrarchan Sonnet

What are the key Romantic ideas in ‘To Sleep’?

Personification of sleep - deity.

nature as a source of rest.

What is the structure of ‘In Dreary-Nighted December’?

Lyric poem - 3 stanzas of 8 lines.

What is the structure of ‘Ode to a Nightingale’?

Ode 8 stanzas of 10 lines.

What is the structure of ‘Ode to a Grecian Urn’?

Ode 5 stanzas of 10 lines

What is the structure of ‘When I have fears’?

Shakespearean Sonnet

Keats quotation on Negative Capability?

“capable of being in uncertainties, Mysteries, doubts, without any irritable reaching after fact and reason.”