Lockdown Literature 3.2

Hi folks,

Thanks for all your work this week. Before you go on, just check that you’ve completed the work I set on Monday.

We’re nearly there. Here’s the next set of tasks:

1) Do this quiz.

2) Write a single paragraph response starting with the following topic sentence:

The digging scene (lines 362-401) is presented like a macabre childbirth. It depicts Isabella as a frustrated, heartbroken mother.

There’s a single paragraph outline with some ideas on here. Use it if you like.

3) Read from line 451 to the end of the poem (by Monday). Annotate your anthology using my notes or this or this.

You can also finish off your ‘Isabella on a page’ sheet. Mine is here.

Optional bonus task: find out about Keats’s favourite book: TheAnatomy of Melancholy by Robert Burton. Here’s a Guardian article about it. And one from the British Library. And here’s its frontispiece:

That’s all for now. We’ll grapple with some big Keatsian ideas next week and try to get to the bottom of the big question: What is ‘Isabella’ really about?

Mr M