Mod A Practice Essay (John Keats Poetry & Bright Star Film)

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Module A practice essay. John Keats poetry and Jane Campion Bright Star film comparative essay.

The conversation between John Keats’ poetry and Campion’s Bright Star, enhances the responder’s appreciation of the shared and disparate visions and ideas.

Analyse this view with close reference to at least two poems by John Keats and the film Bright Star by Jane Campion, considering their context and values.

John Keats’ 19th century poetry illuminates ideas of the importance of beauty to the creative and imagination, alongside the role of death in the human experience, ultimately enhanced through Jane Campion’s contemporary film, Bright Star (2009). The historical context of John Keats’ life largely informs his poetry, which is challenged by Campion through the contemporary female perspective. Keats’ poetry is written and expressed through his perspective as a young man in the 19th century, whereas Campion’s Bright Star is expressed through the female perspective of Fanny Brawne, Keats’ lover. Resonances and dissonances are expressed between the texts, highlighting Campion’s use of Keats’ poetry as a means to drive the textual conversation between the two bodies of work