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John Keats
John Keats Notes
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Which English Romantic poet wrote "Ode on a Grecian Urn" and "Ode to a Nightingale"? | John Keats |
| What famous line concludes Keats's "Ode on a Grecian Urn"? | Beauty is truth, truth beauty |
| In "Ode on a Grecian Urn," what does Keats call the title object in addition to a "Sylvan historian"? | Still unravish'd bride of quietness |
| Which Keats poem opens with the line "My heart aches, and a drowsy numbness pains my sense"? | Ode to a Nightingale |
| What question ends Keats's "Ode to a Nightingale"? | Do I wake or sleep? |
| Which Keats ballad opens with the line "O what can ail thee, knight-at-arms"? | La Belle Dame sans Merci |
| To what location does the beautiful lady take the knight in "La Belle Dame sans Merci"? | Elfin grot |
| Which English poet wrote the elegy "Adonais" to commemorate the death of John Keats? | Percy Bysshe Shelley |
| Which Keats sonnet compares reading a translation of Homer to "stout Cortez" staring at the Pacific from a "peak in Darien"? | On First Looking into Chapman's Homer |
| What opening line begins Keats's long narrative poem Endymion? | A thing of beauty is a joy forever |
| Which Keats ode begins by addressing a "season of mists and mellow fruitfulness"? | To Autumn |
| Which Keats ode contains the line "if thy mistress some rich anger shows, / Imprison her soft hand, and let her rave"? | Ode on Melancholy |
| In which ode does Keats promise to "be thy priest, and build a fane / In some untrodden region of my mind"? | Ode to Psyche |
| What literary concept did Keats define in an 1817 letter as the ability to exist in uncertainties and doubts without reaching after fact? | Negative Capability |
| Who was the love of John Keats's life, addressed in his sonnet "Bright Star"? | Fanny Brawne |