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Emotionalism - Romantics → emphasis on emotion: - Terror, awe, horrow, longing, etc.

“The Eve of St. Agnes” “La Belle Dame Sans Merci” - Uses the principles of supernatural forces and excessive emotion

Bright star film -

Shows us the excessive emotion that Fanny and Keats feel for one another, a feeling that verges on the melodramatic.

Soundtrack - Adagio from Mozart’s Serenade played over the voice-over of Keats’ poem “Ode to a Nightingale” - Superimposition that creates a heightened sense of feeling. Exotiism - Romantics looked at multiple ways of living and making art, looking abroad at how others lived.

“The Eve of St. Agnes” - Shows the mix of cultures as the two lovers in the poem have different names from different

Captures exoticism through use of visual tropes - Butterfly farm that Fanny creates in her room. - Contrast between the dim interior and the vibrant colours of the butterflies shows us this appreciation of a distant land

Gothicism - Romantics showed interest in Medieval architecture, art and literature → embraced the supernatural

“The Eve of St. Agnes” - Utilizes a number of gothic tropes - Medieval castle during the frezing twilight - Atmosphere and the intrusion of the supernatural to create a feeling of Terror

Lighting and set design of Wentworth Place - Interiors are dark, nearly claustrophobic → creates sense that Keats is haunted by his brother Tom’s death. - As well as macabre

Imagination

Many of Keats’ poems depend upon the idea of vision, inspiration and above all the power of imagination.

Fanny who is seen as equally imaginative as the great poet, even if her medium is sewing

“When I have fears that i may cease to be” - When i have fears that i may cease to be/Before my pen has gleaned my teeming brain - The teeming brain is an example of the profligate power of the imagination

Scene composition Camera lingering on Fanny’s hands as she stitches a pillowslip by copying a tree that grows outside her window

Individualism - Struggling for your reputation and fortune, rather than being born into it was see as a positive quality - Romantic writers of the time also challenged traditional values and values individual genius and personal heroism above all else

“When I have fears that i may cease to be” - Ends on the shore of the wide world, where everything, including love and fame sink to nothingness - Example of the individual romantic hero

Fanny accepts the domesticated place of women in 19th century society as first, but subverts this by being independent - Makes her own dresses and does not accede to her mother’s wish that she marry a suitable man → she follows her heart.

Naturalism - In poetry, manifest itself with a move towards dialect and individual expression

“To Autumn” - Uses natural imagery to capture the changing of the season from pre-autumn, to harvest, to the end of autumn.

Setting Shots that are set in the heath are wide-open and contrasted with the dim interiors that we see

“Ode to a Nightingale” - Bird song is emblematic of his love for naturalism and he discusses the natural world as a place he might find respite from his own sorrows and preoccupations

Symbolism Keats’ fingers are always seen as ink-stained is further proof of the hold of the Imagination on a poet’s life

Symbol Butterfly is a symbol of naturalism, represents fleeting beauty that can only exist for a brief moment before succumbing to decay

Revolution

“The Eve of St. Agnes” - Turn to medieval literature show his interest in example of literature from another time

The entire story is told through Fanny’s point of view, highlighting the gender relations of that era. By foregrounding Fanny’s desire and subjectivity, the film is a feminist take and a cinematic revolution against a more masculine historythat had traditionally prvileged the poet and ignored his love interest

Mortality

“Ode to a Grecian Urn” “Fair youth, beneath the trees, thou canst not leave/Thy sound, nor ever can those trees be bare”

Tom Keats has died, presents the opposite of the fair youth who cannot leave, for this is a fair youth who has left the world much too early. Fanny goes back to stiching: before her stitching was precise (highlighted by the extreme closeup), after she finds out about Tom’s death, we see her ruppinga a sheet in half. She makes a beautifully embroidered pillow slip (symbolism) that captures and in a sense freezes a tree in bloom. In reality, this tree would change. Fanny is doing what the Grecian urn does (visual intertextuality), creating something that will transcend time (“nor ever can those trees be bare”)

Mortality

“To Autumn” Winter representative of death

Trees depicted has branches filled with snow. Winter being the symbolic season of death (seen through visual imagery of the cold bleak landscape). This indicates the ineluctable passage of time and the inevitability of mortality.

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