Ode on Melancholy

TASK 3
On the third Stanza the speaker mentions that pleasure and pain are connected: Beauty must die, joy is transitory and leaves fast, and the " plant" of pleasure is “turning to poison while the bee-mouth sips.” 
Also the writer of a lyric poem uses words that express his perceptions, and his feelings, and thats what happens in this phrase.  

TASK 4
STANZA1 
     

" By nightshade, ruby grape of Proserpine;"
 Nightshade,: “the ruby grape of Prosperpine,” which is a poison; Prosperpine is the mythological queen of the underworld and she shouldn't become obsessed with objects that have relation with  death and misery. This helps to contrast that the "victim" (speaker), the sufferer should not avoid his suffering, his melancholy but rather abstain from death (suicide)



"Make not your rosary of yew-berries"
This quote portrays a contrast between Religion and Death. A symbol of death is being used (poisonous berries) in relation of faith (rosary) 


STANZA 2


"Or on the wealth of globèd peonies;"
There are two ways to interpret this quote. First The speaker tries to show that: when affected by the trouble of melancholy, the sufferer should instead defeat and destroy his sorrow with "natural beauty", like beautiful pink flowers that portray positive feelings, and helps to forget about the negative ones (unhappiness). Second Peonies are flowers with large, colourful petals that trun brown and fade soon after opening, which makes a contrast: means that beauty doesn't last nor does love, both fade overtime.

STANZA 3


" turning to poison while the bee-mouth sips"
The flower of pleasure is turning to poison while the bee-mouth sips. The phrase "while the bee-mouth sips" respresents how the bees swallow up the pollem of the plants, which is the good thing of the plant, so the bees will be taking out the goodness of the plant in a way and living the unnecessary wastes (poison).





"Ay, in the very temple of Delight
Veil'd Melancholy has her sovran shrine..."

The speaker says that melancholy is inside the “temple of Delight,”, of joy, that Melancholy and Joy GO TO GETHER.  Inse the sacred place of Delight there is a sector, a pice of it, where Melancholy habits, "has her sovran shrine".

Why the word Veil is used?  a Veil is " a piece of transparent material, usually attached to a hat used to protect a woman's face and head usually on marriages, so it portrays how Melancholy (HER) is sometimes hidden from people. 
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                    

Ode on a Grecian Urn

OUR URN

STANZA 1

Why is the urn compared to a " still unravish'd bride"?

• "still" has two meanings - "motionless" or "remaining in time". Time and motion are two concepts that the poem explores throughout.
• "unravish'd" means unspoiled - a bride yet to lose her virginity; similarly, the urn and the scenes it represents are "unspoiled" by the passage of time.

Explain the term "sylvan historian"(l.3)

• The urn is a "Sylvan historian" because it records scenes from a culture lived long ago (ancient greeks); and because it is bordered with leaves, as well as having scenes of the countryside within.
• Is it paradoxical that the urn, a "bride of quietness", can tell its stories "more sweetly than our rhyme" (meaning the poem itself)?
• The gentleness of the term "sylvan historian" and his "flowery tale" told "sweetly" do not prepare us for the wild sexuality of lines 8-10. (Another contrast!)

What change in viewpoint occurs in lines 8-10?

• The short questions and frequent repetitions inject pace into the poem. Notice how the speaker moves from contemplative observer to emotionally-involved participant with these breathless questions. (We have another contrast - that of the participant vs the observer). You may want to think about how I develop this idea throughout, and what it might suggest about the audience's relationship with "Art" in general...

STANZA 2

a

Heard melodies are sweet, but those unheard
Are sweeter; therefore, ye soft pipes, play on;
Not to the sensual ear, but, more endear'd,
Pipe to the spirit ditties of no tone:

The speaker contrasted the ideal vs the reality based on the “heard melodies.

• In this stanza, the speaker moved to another scene of the urn.
• In this stanza the music is being played on "pipes,", these pipes are "soft."
• The speaker gets to a conclusion: He says that the melodies you don’t hear are "sweeter" than those you do, that the piper’s “unheard” melodies are sweeter.
• PARADOX= it doesn’t make sense. (The music can’t be heard if it is at “volume cero”)
• He imagines the scenes on the urn as if they were real places and events. Real people are actually "living" on the urn, but they are frozen in time.
• The pipe-player actually is playing a song, but you can’t hear the song because urns don’t make sounds. The speaker is imagining what the song would song like, and he thinks this imaginary song inside his head is better than anything he has heard with his ears.
• In other words, he prefers to the ideal word to the real one
• He is the one imagining the pipes are playing
• He tells the pipes not to play to his “metaphorical ear” the imaginary ear, not the real ear, (the physical).
• Also the speaker asks the pipes to play melodies without sounds (Imaginary songs).

Fair youth, beneath the trees, thou canst not leave
Thy song, nor ever can those trees be bare;
Bold Lover, never, never canst thou kiss,
Though winning near the goal—yet, do not grieve;
She cannot fade, though thou hast not thy bliss
For ever wilt thou love, and she be fair!

• It seems that a man is chasing a women
• "Bold lover, never, never canst thou kiss", suggesting that given by the circumstance of being forever still as he is inside an urn, no real action will take place, this love will never be fulfilled, that’s why there is an emphasize on the word “never”.
•  "Though winning near the goal",  back to reality where he tells the Bold lover that the kiss will never REALLY happen
• There is a feeling of distress and anxiety because there appears the desire of leaving the world of reality and staying in the world of fantasy. 

TASK 1

a) 

I understood a very profound aspect of the poem: imagination is stronger than knowledge, more powerful than real life. In the case of this poem it can be seen a very important Paradox, as the speaker says that music can’t be heard, which doesn’t make sense, the speaker also asks the pipes to play melodies without sounds.  He says that the melodies you don’t hear are "sweeter", this is a perfect contrast of the imaginary world, portraying that it is better than “belonging” to the real world. IMAGINATION = a key aspect of Romanticism, the world around us depends on our imagination

b)

c)

La Belle Dame Sans Merci

      

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WATERHOUSE: 

John Williams Waterhouse was born in April 6, 1849 in Rome and died on February 10, 1917.

John W.W works:

His works were painting of classical, historical and literary art works. 

Waterhouse also grow an interest on themes associated with the Pre-Raphaelites, associated with powerful femme fatales

Some John W.W life events:

1- Waterhouse helped his father at the studios

2- Later he entered the Royal Academy schools

3- Also Waterhourse went to Italy where he started painting genre scenes

4- Death of cancer, 1917

3) In this picture can be perfectly reflected the story of love and death contrasted with the landscape, as it is darker and gloomier, and its sounds as well, such as the example of the birds:  "The sedge has wither'd from the lake / And no birds sing!". Also the beautiful lady that is grasping the knight is a femme fatale, a woman that attracts lovers ( in this case the knight ) for later destroy them by her supernatural powers and abandon them afterwards. as it is seen in the picture: how the knight is captivated and instantly falls in love with the lady

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( Picture By: Frank Dicksee)

5) In the picture i have chosen illustrates different character attitudes, for examaple the knight emphasizes more the fact that he is captivated and totally blind of love because of his pose, which shows that he does not have total control of his body and is carried away by the look of the beautiful lady. It also shows that the knight has no sense that the woman is leaving him, as the woman attitude shows. While in the other picture is the woman who grabs the knight and doesn't show very clearly the captivation of the knight. 

Also the picture that i have chosen have more bright and vibrant colours which enphasizes a lot the theme of love, passion and freedom while they met. But the other picture highlight more the theme of loneliness and the lose of freedom and submission of love

What both of these pictures have in common  is that both womans represent " Femme Fatales", as in different ways, both captivate the knight. Also in both pictures there is a lot of natural life represented, for example the horse or the forrest and its diverse plants.

TREASURE HUNT

SECTION 1 - BIOGRAPHY

Time line:

1,2)

        Oct 31, 1795: John Keats is born           in London

1802: Keats brother Edward dies.

1803: Keats begins his studies at a small school in Enfield, England.

Apr 16, 1804: John’s father dies. John's mother, become a widow with four surviving children and remarries later the same year.

1805: Keats' mother abandons the family and disappears for three and a half years, leaving the children with their grandmother.

1809: Keats' mother returns to the family, sick with tuberculosis.

Mar 1810: Keat’s mother dies of tuberculosis. She leaves the children in the with their grandmother. The grandmother gives the  children to a guardian.

1815: After four years as an surgeon apprentice, Keats begins his medical studies at Guy's Hospital in London. Privately, he has started to write poetry.

Oct 1816: Keats meets the poet Leigh Hunt, who encourages him to write poetry

Dec 1816: Keats decides to abandon his medical career so that he can focus on his poetry.

Mar 3, 1817: Keats' first poetry collection,Poems, is published.

Jul 1818: Keats begins a six-week walking tour of England and Scotland with his friend Charles Armitage Brown.

Nov 28, 1818: Keats completes Endymion, his first long poem

Dec 1, 1818: Keats' brother Thomas dies of tuberculosis at the age of 19.

1819: After his brother's death, Keats moves in with his friend Charles Brown in the Hampstead neighborhood of London. There, he meets and falls in love with his neighbor, Fanny Brawne. By the end of the year, the cthey get engaged. He writes many of his best poems, including the and  but also battles depression and the first symptoms of tuberculosis.

Feb 3, 1820: Keats has a lung hemorrhage, the first serious symptom of the tuberculosis that will eventually take his life. When the second one happens a few months later, he moves into Leigh Hunt's house, where Fanny nurses him.

Jul 1820: Lots of Keats poems are published

1821 : The first months of 1821 become the final stage of tuberculosis.

John Keats dies of tuberculosis at the age of 25 in Rome. He is buried in the Protestant cemetery.

Last John Keat’s words after dying: The approaches of death came on. [Keats said] 'Severn—I—lift me up—I am dying—I shall die easy; don't be frightened—be firm, and thank God it has come.' 

3)

John moved with Charles Brown in 1819 , and later, fannys family moved besides them,John met Fanny and he was in love with her. She was an inspiration form him, as he was Deeply insipired by his love, and wrote amazing love letters.Therfeore, one can say that she was like a muse for him, and his work.   He once told to a friend  "I can bear to die," "I cannot bear to leave her."

4-5) letters

“but I should as soon think of choosing to die as to part from you” 

Letter to Charles Brown on the 30 of November , 1820:

Brown and John Keats were close friends. When Charles Brown first met Keats in the late summer of 1817, Keats was twenty-one, and Brown thirty. Shortly after their meeting, Keats and Brown were planning to see organise a walking tour to Scotland together.

Last three sentences of the letter to Charles brown:

“ Write to George as soon as you receive this, and tell him how I am, as far as you can guess; and also as note to my sister- who walks about my imagination like a ghost- she is so like Tom. I can scarcely bid you goodbye, even in a letter. I always made an awkward bow…”

SECTION 2 CONTEXT

1)ROMANTIC PERIOD1798 1832 

	I believe that this image, represents the personal and political freedom, the energy and sublimity of nature; Because of the flowers, he contact with earth, the wind and the petals flying away. Petals could represent new ideas. 2) Historical Event in the Romantic Era: “The French Revolution” A event mthat occured in the modern European history, the French Revolution began in 1789 and ended in 1790s. During this period, French citizens restablishes their country’s political aspects redesigning the system. This was also the era in which Romanticism was mostly developed and continue growing by the influnce of the revolution effects.  3) Provide brief diagram or bullet points outlining some of the key characteristics of Romanticism. You may find this useful. Or this. ·      Romantic believed in everything that is natural, spontaneous, and real. ·      They worked with actual feelings, emotions. Giving a strong importance to imagination and intuition. Everything that had to do with the individual. ·      They  leave aside “rules“ of society , and the reason. To create works that would represent the love, nature, creativity. ·      Romantics were also interested in the medieval past, the strange events, the “gothic“ and the exotic. Evertything that was “different“, and show individualism. ·      Romantics liked rebellion and revolution, because they were in favour of human rights, individualism, and they were against  oppression. ·      They were interested in introsprection of the self being, and its authentic emotions related to different ocations, like for example  death.  4) Eugene Lacroix 1838 5)  The picture shows the portrait of lord Bryon, John Keat’s rival.  The fact that both John Keats and Lord Bryon was because of envy rehaznos that Keats felt over Byron's success.  Bryon succeeded only because he was an aristocrat and Keats always had financial concernes.  SECTION 3 - POEMS 1) Give a brief, bullet-pointed explanation of what an Ode (in poetry) is. List all the Odes I wrote, including the first line for each one, and the date (roughly) they were written.  ·         Poem written for an ocaccion or has to do with something in particular. ·         Odes now a days, are less “formal, and important, but unfortounaly that has to do with todays coiety and their minimum respect for propriety morality and dignity. ·         It’s a word that comes from a greek word that means to sing or chant ·         They convey their strongest feelings ·         Pindaric, Horatian and Irregular, are three typical types. ·         John Keats wrote six lyric odes, written between March and September 1819 ·         He died barely a year after finishing the ode “To Autumn,” in February 1821. ·         Ode on Indolence: One morn before me were three figures seen, ·         Ode to Psyche: O Goddess! hear these tuneless numbers, wrung ·         Ode to a Nightingale : My heart aches, and a drowsy numbness pains ·         Ode on a Grecian Urn: Thou still unravish'd bride of quietness, ·         Ode on Melancholy: No, no, go not to Lethe, neither twist ·         To Autumn: Season of mists and mellow fruitfulness, 2) The Contemplation of Beauty: “ ode on a Grecian Urn” The Mortality of Human life: “ ode of Nightingale” Effects of time: “ To Autum”; Quoet: “Where are the songs of spring?” The inevitability of Death: “When i have fears that i may cease to be” Dream of vision ( Reality) 3) I take great pride in my synaesthetic images.  •             Can you briefly explain IN YOUR OWN WORDS what these are? ‘ Synasthestic images is when in a same image, there is more than one sense, that combines. for example, visual and sound. •             What function(s) do they perform in my poems? it is part of their sensual effect, and the combining of senses. This represents what happens in reality, the unity. Senses are not separated when something happens to us, emotions are combined. •             Give the example from the link on Isabella, explaining the sensory images it combines. And TASTE the MUSIC of that VISION pale. (stanza XLIX) In this stanza it combines, the visual, the sound and the taste of something in particular. 4)  POETIC BALLAD: Has two or more estanzas all sung to the same melody Sentimental and romantic songs A ballad is a form of verse, often narrative set to  music Used by poets and composers to produce lyrical ballads              Basically love songs ( PUT THE RECORDING) O what can ail thee, knight-at-arms,        Alone and palely loitering? The sedge has withered from the lake,        And no birds sing. O what can ail thee, knight-at-arms,        So haggard and so woe-begone? The squirrel’s granary is full,        And the harvest’s done. I see a lily on thy brow,        With anguish moist and fever-dew, And on thy cheeks a fading rose        Fast withereth too. I met a lady in the meads,        Full beautiful—a faery’s child, Her hair was long, her foot was light,        And her eyes were wild. I made a garland for her head,        And bracelets too, and fragrant zone; She looked at me as she did love,        And made sweet moan I set her on my pacing steed,        And nothing else saw all day long, For sidelong would she bend, and sing        A faery’s song. She found me roots of relish sweet,        And honey wild, and manna-dew, And sure in language strange she said—        ‘I love thee true’. She took me to her Elfin grot,        And there she wept and sighed full sore, And there I shut her wild wild eyes        With kisses four. And there she lullèd me asleep,        And there I dreamed—Ah! woe betide!— The latest dream I ever dreamt        On the cold hill side. I saw pale kings and princes too,        Pale warriors, death-pale were they all; They cried—‘La Belle Dame sans Merci        Thee hath in thrall!’ I saw their starved lips in the gloam,        With horrid warning gapèd wide, And I awoke and found me here,        On the cold hill’s side. And this is why I sojourn here,        Alone and palely loitering, Though the sedge is withered from the lake,        And no birds sing. SECTION 4 - IB AND ME 1)  Five abilities I need to develop Analysis of a work in terms of content and technique; engage with the details of the works Acquire deeper knowledge and understanding of the works studied How language, theme, setting, and character can have particular effects Be familiarized with a variety of interpretation and critical perspectives Demonstrate appropriate analytical responses How will I be assessed by the IB for Part 2? Individual Oral Commentary and discussion Formal oral commentary of poetry studied in Part 2 Subsequent questions (10 minutes) Followed by a discussion based on one of the other Part 2 works (10 minutes) Knowledge and understanding of the poem Appreciation of writer's choices Organization and presentation of the commentary Knowledge and understanding of the work used in the presentation Response to the discussion questions Language