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Keats Revision Activity
Using colours or numbers, join up the quotation, the poem it is from and the suggested area of use
Quotation Poem Area of Use
O Attic shape! Fair attitude with brede Of marble men and maindens over-wrought Lamia Miltonic language, Vale of soulmaking, Alliteration/consonance
The sedge has withered from the lake And no birds sing The Eve of St Agnes Social comment, Poetic inflection, Use of senses
And for them many a weary hand did sweat  In torched mines and noisy factories Endymion Pleasure/pain paradox, Awareness of mortality
A thing of beauty is a joy forever; Its loveliness increases; it will never Pass into nothingness Ode on a Grecian Urn Hellenic revival, Keats' interest in sculpture, Use of texture
Do not all charms fly At the mere touch of cold philosophy? Ode to a Nightingale Permanence v. Transience,  The role of poetry
...he from forth the closet brought a heap Of candied apple, quince and plum and gourd,  With jellies soother than the creamer curd La Belle Dame Sans Merci Personification, Use of texture
Deep in the shady sadness of a vale Far sunken from the healthy breath of morn Sleep and Poetry Keats' poetic ambitions
Now more than ever it seems rich to die To cease upon the midnight with no pain Isabella; or; the Pot of Basil Sense of loss, Use of pathetic fallacy
While barred clouds bloom the soft-dying day And touch the stubble plains with rosy hue Hyperion Fragility of the imagination. Reason v. Emotion
O for ten years that I may overwhelm Myself in poesy To Autumn Sensuous language, sexual references, links  feasting with sexual appetite