grappling

heaven
with the reality of mortality as it crosses paths with a longing for love
TEXT 1: KEATS’ POETRY
Device Evidence

1. Sibilance Thou still unravish'd bride of quietness,

Emphasises the slowness of eternity and the Thou foster-child of silence and slow time,
extended life of a personified inanimate object Sylvan historian, who canst thus express
ie the urn A flowery tale more sweetly than our rhyme
- Ode To a Grecian Urn

2. Symbolism She cannot fade, though thou hast not thy bliss,
Continuity of the urn and love (metaphysical For ever wilt thou love, and she be fair!
love - unending) Ah, happy, happy boughs! that cannot shed
Your leaves, nor ever bid the Spring adieu;
- Ode To a Grecian Urn

3. Juxtaposition Of marble men and maidens overwrought

man made contrasting to natural imagery - With forest branches and the trodden weed;
beauty is lifeless. - Ode To a Grecian Urn

4. Context And so live ever—or else swoon to death.

- To Autumn

5. Malapropism I saw their starved lips in the gloam,

"Gloam" instead of gloom. sunsetting on life. - La Belle Dame sans Merci. A Ballad
Coming to a close on the journey to acceptance
regarding death and eternity - finality

6. Extended metaphor Bright star, would I were stedfast as thou art—

The central symbol star becomes an extended Not in lone splendour hung aloft the night
metaphor for eternity and everlasting. also And watching, with eternal lids apart,
personified - Bright Star, Would I Were Steadfast As Thou Art

7. Metaphor Still, still to hear her tender-taken breath,

live and love with fanny forever, spend their And so live ever—or else swoon to death.
lives together or die out of loss of not having - Bright Star, Would I Were Steadfast As Thou Art
her.

8. In media res My heart aches, and a drowsy numbness pains

Opens in the middle of the action to My sense, as though of hemlock I had drunk,
immediately expose the isolation of the persona Or emptied some dull opiate to the drains
and the themes of inevitability. - Ode To A Nightingale

9. Context Of the wide world I stand alone, and think

bleak ending, if he ends, so do his works and Till Love and Fame to nothingness do sink.
writing. however can be seen as a freedom in - When I Have Fears that I May Cease to Be
letting go .human solitariness and
insignificance

10. Rhetorical question
Urges personified autumn to not dwell on the
past (spring) and live in the present (autumn) -
inevitability of death
Where are the songs of Spring? Ay, where are they?
Think not of them, thou hast thy music too,--
And so live ever—or else swoon to death.
- To Autumn
 TEXT 2: BRIGHT STAR (CAMPION)

Device Evidence

1. Off centre mid shots Conversations between fanny and keats in poetry lesson scene
Use of mid shots framing each slightly off
centre to show the awkwardness of the
situation

2. Juxtaposition in costuming Fanny in the opening scene - red and white dress with large ruffles and headdress, -
Displays her differences from the other greens, blues and browns everyone else.
characters and her later self. Juxtaposing
colours between characters and setting.
Change in outfits represent her change in
emotions.
Individualisation of fanny as the protagonist

3. Protagonist/context Fanny as the protagonist rather than keats

Fanny is the protagonist of the movie rather
than Keats as it takes a modern second wave
feminist approach on Keats life and the
romantic side rather than the biographic side.

4. Natural imagery Fanny and Keats in natural settings

Shows the audience the importance and
happiness found in nature so when in the latter
part of the film nature is used as a place of
trouble the struggles of love become prevalent
(physical love rather than the metaphysical
world they have created where they live happily
together.

5. Pathetic fallacy Raining during the valentines letter scene

Used to show the reflection of nature taking on
the emotions of fanny/keats and how love is
affecting nature around them as they both rely
so heavily on it to find their love in each other.

6. Mirroring wide angle shots Fanny lying on bed window open curtain billowing in wind
Showing the connection between fanny and Keats lying on ground in flower field birds eye view
keats even when they are not together. Almost
though they share a part of each other -
physical love

7. paradox, When i look back upon the ecstasies which i have passed some days, and the
Paradox of highs and lows miseries in their turn,”

8. Letters mirroring poems “I have two luxuries to brood over in my walks,

Mirrors keats as his poems were often also Your loveliness, and the hour of my death.
letters or snippets of letters O, that i could have possession of them both in the same minute”

9. Motif Butterflies
Symbol of life and the lack of time - metaphor
for keats life and “When I Have Fears that I May
Cease to Be”

10. Intimate dialogue “Touch has a memory”

longing to hold onto the moment for eternity - “I know it”
everlasting like the star (bright star)
TEXT 1: KEATS’ POETRY
Device Evidence

1. Sibilance Thou still unravish'd bride of quietness,

Thou foster-child of silence and slow time,
Sylvan historian, who canst thus express
A flowery tale more sweetly than our rhyme
- Ode To a Grecian Urn

2. Symbolism She cannot fade, though thou hast not thy bliss,
For ever wilt thou love, and she be fair!

Ah, happy, happy boughs! that cannot shed

Your leaves, nor ever bid the Spring adieu;
- Ode To a Grecian Urn

3. Juxtaposition Of marble men and maidens overwrought

With forest branches and the trodden weed;
- Ode To a Grecian Urn

4. Context And so live ever—or else swoon to death.

- To Autumn

5. Malapropism I saw their starved lips in the gloam,

- La Belle Dame sans Merci. A Ballad

6. Extended metaphor Bright star, would I were stedfast as thou art—

Not in lone splendour hung aloft the night
And watching, with eternal lids apart,
- Bright Star, Would I Were Steadfast As Thou Art

7. Metaphor Still, still to hear her tender-taken breath,

And so live ever—or else swoon to death.
- Bright Star, Would I Were Steadfast As Thou Art

8. In media res My heart aches, and a drowsy numbness pains

My sense, as though of hemlock I had drunk,
Or emptied some dull opiate to the drains
- Ode To A Nightingale

9. Context Of the wide world I stand alone, and think

Till Love and Fame to nothingness do sink.
- When I Have Fears that I May Cease to Be

10. Rhetorical question Where are the songs of Spring? Ay, where are they?
Think not of them, thou hast thy music too,--
And so live ever—or else swoon to death.
- To Autumn
TEXT 2: BRIGHT STAR (CAMPION)

Device Evidence

1. Off centre mid shots Conversations between fanny and keats in poetry lesson scene

2. Juxtaposition in costuming Fanny in the opening scene - red and white dress with large ruffles
and headdress, - greens, blues and browns everyone else.

3. Protagonist/context Fanny as the protagonist rather than keats

4. Natural imagery Fanny and Keats in natural settings

5. Pathetic fallacy Raining during the valentines letter scene

6. Mirroring wide angle shots Fanny lying on bed window open curtain billowing in wind
Keats lying on ground in flower field birds eye view

7. paradox When i look back upon the ecstasies which i have passed some
days, and the miseries in their turn,”

8. Letters mirroring poems “I have two luxuries to brood over in my walks,

Your loveliness, and the hour of my death.
O, that i could have possession of them both in the same minute”

9. Motif Butterflies

10. Intimate dialogue “Touch has a memory”

“I know it”