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 stanzas 9-16 of "The Eve of St Agnes"?

hand in Wednesday 3rd February

'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 and Lamia.

hand in Wednesday 24th February

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.

hand in Wednesday 10th March

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.)

week 25

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.