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Choose two short extracts to illustrate the way in which Keats uses vivid description and colour to describe the titans.
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Isabelle Sherren 12H Choose two short extracts to illustrate the way in which Keats uses vivid description and colour to describe the titans. Pg. 34, lines 41 - 60 Pg. 28, lines 163 - 180 Throughout the poem, 'the fall of Hyperion,' we constantly see the recurrent theme of hope versus despair. The titans have fallen and lost their power to the Olympians and the poem progresses through their reactions, loss of hope and plans to regain power. In the first extract, pg.28, lines 163 - 180, we can see a particularly descriptive extract as the titans are listening in, 'sharp pain,' for Saturn's voice. The, 'mammoth-brood,' are all feeling isolated and ashamed of their recent defeat. However they all have hope in Hyperion, the God of the sun, he has not yet fallen so still has his, 'sov'reignty and rule, and majesty.' Keats uses the technique of listing in this section which emphasises...
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