Aspects of Narrative

Use the sixth-form library to improve your reading,
particularly on Keats.
What about treating yourself to a copy of
Andrew Motion's biography?

'Gothic' literature:

scholarly editions

overview

Fortnight ending / lesson

one:
How does Keats tell the story in the opening stanzas of "The Eve of St Agnes"?

[Task 7]

Braking the story;

pace, narrative theory

'soft and chilly nest': sensuality

the "Gothick"

the Gothick/ the framing/ the personal (the biography)

the pre-Raphaelites

[images]

... and The Eve of St Agnes

... and four Keats poems

The Beadsman as a figure of time; the framing device.

The structure of the poem: converging lines; cause and effect.

two:
Write about some of the ways in which characters are created in The Eve of St Agnes.

Assignment: re-read ' Lamia' yourself before the next lesson.

Establishing shots and context (including the echoes of Dryden's Ovid)

The classical models for 'Lamia'

cf the Spenserian model for The Eve of St Agnes 

three: Write about the significance of places in each of the two Keats poems you have studied.

Task 8

Conclusion in detail. How successfully is the poem resolved?

We will work through in class an example of an exam-style question.

Writers often choose their titles carefully to allow for different potential meanings.
Write about some potential meanings of titles in the Keats poems you have studied.

Aporia, mood, context, imitation.

First and third person narrative.

This week's assignment: collecting our thoughts.

Look back over your Keats' work and draw up a 'mindmap' or other suitable chart to record the themes, issues and matters which we have discussed.

LEARNING JOURNALS

Ensure that any previous assignments which for good reasons or bad you have not completed. (Have these to me by the end of term.)

W H Auden

week 24

Introduction to Auden

Ballads:

As I Walked Out,
O What is that Sound?
O Where are you going?
Miss Gee

Links with La Belle Dame Sans Merci.

Ballads:

As I Walked Out,
O What is that Sound?
O Where are you going?
Miss Gee

Aporia, mood, context, imitation.

First and third person narrative.

Past Paper Question

Task 9

1st September 1939

Ode, If I could Tell You

Narrator's voice
Situation and time; relationship between teller and tale

Reader's contribution; different interpretations.

Past Paper Question

Task 10

Revision and practice, including connexions and comparisons between Keats and Auden*.

*No AO4 in this question (context); it's okay just to write about one poem from your selection.