M O D U L E A : T E X T U A L C O N V E R S A T I O N S

Keats' and Brignt Star

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Collaborative Evidence: Keats vs Campion

Questions to be working with...

The connections between texts create an ongoing cultural conversation that gives insight into truth.

In your responses, discuss how your pair of prescribed texts engage in this conversation to shape audience perspectives.

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“Books serve to show a man that those original thoughts of his aren’t very new after all.” – Abraham Lincoln

To what extent is the above statement true in your study of Textual Conversations?

In your responses, refer to your pair of prescribed texts with a close discussion of the composers’ purposes and intentions.

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“No poet, no artist of any art, has his complete meaning alone. His significance, his appreciation is the appreciation of his relation to the dead poets and artists. You cannot value him alone; you must set him, for contrast and comparison, among the dead.” – T.S Elliot, The Sacred Wood

Drawing on the concepts from the above statement, explore how innovative language concepts, form and style shape new meaning. In your response, closely refer to your pair of prescribed texts.

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Critically evaluate how Campion reshapes the representation of love in Keat’s poetry to enhance the audience’s understanding of the human condition.

In your response, closely examine how both composer use imagery and symbolism to represent their understanding of humanity. Make close references to at least 2 of Keats' poems and Campion’s Bright Star.

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Evaluate the importance of conflict in the textual conversation between Keats The Complete Poems and Campion’s Bright Star.

In your response make examine both composer’s use of juxtaposition and evocative imagery to convey their messages with close references to the images provided.

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To what extent do the texts you have studied demonstrate that the values a text presents are shaped by its context? How true is this statement of the two texts you studied?

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‘Changes in form inevitably lead to different perspectives on the same issues.’

Discuss this statement in relation to your prescribed texts.

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