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Keats and Campio

The document analyzes John Keats's poetry, discussing various poetic devices and themes across several of his odes. It examines the use of metaphor, personification, symbolism, and other literary techniques in poems such as Ode to a Nightingale and Ode to a Grecian Urn. It also briefly discusses the poem Bright Star by John Donne.

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Keats and Campio

The document analyzes John Keats's poetry, discussing various poetic devices and themes across several of his odes. It examines the use of metaphor, personification, symbolism, and other literary techniques in poems such as Ode to a Nightingale and Ode to a Grecian Urn. It also briefly discusses the poem Bright Star by John Donne.

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TEXT 1: KEATS’ POETRY

Device Evidence

1. Extended Metaphor When I have fears that I may cease to be


Before my pen has glean’d my teeming brain, (...) That i shall never look
upon thee more

2. volta When I have fears that I may cease to be


Personification “ - then on the shore / Of the wide world I stand alone, and think / Till Love and
High modality Fame to nothingness do sink.”

3. Connotations Bright Star


Extended metaphor “Not in lone splendour hung aloft the night”

4. Personification Ode to a Nightingale


“Or new Love pine at them beyond to-morrow”

5. Oxymoron Ode to a Nightingale


Personification “I have been half in love with easeful Death”
Paradox
Tense change

6. Volta Bright Star


tangibility “No - yet steadfast still unchangeable / pillow’d upon my fair love’s ripening
Extended metaphor breast.”

7. Cross poem relation Ode to Grecian Urn


Personification “Nor ever bid Spring adieu;
symbolism
Repetition

8. Symbolism Ode to Grecian Urn


Metaphor “A flowery tale more sweetly than our rhyme”

9. Paradox Ode to Grecian Urn


Tone shift “Human passion (...) that leaves a heart high-sorrowful”

10. Allusion Ode to Grecian Urn


Extended metaphor “Heard melodies are sweet, but those unheard / are sweeter;”
TEXT 2: BRIGHT STAR (CAMPION)

Device Evidence

1. Foreshadowing Setting “Autumn is coming” (...) “And don’t come back there is no Autumn
Juxtaposition around here”

2. Close up “Then allow me my happiness for I am writing again”


Symbol

3. Foreshadows ‘Immaturites but also immensities

4. Symbol / metaphor “The point of diving into a lake is to be in the lake, not swim straight to
the shore but to relax in the lake”

5.Wide shot (Framed by tree) Craft mirroring


Wide shot Fanny Him sitting under tree
Diegetic sound Fanny sewing illuminated by natural light
Voice over → of ode to
From keats in the garden to fanny
nightingale

6. Characterisation ‘Hope is nice but it doesn't equate to hard work’

7. Characterisation ‘My stitching has more merit that your scribblings put together… and i
Feminist lens can make money from it’
Confident tone

8. Close up shot of sewing Breaking of fabric and re-stitching it to make pillowcase with
illuminated by natural light embroidery of tree
Close up of pillow slip

9. Mid shot “I don’t care a damn for stitches”

10. Mid shot Sewing herself a black / dark garment

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