When exam notes deteriorate:

Keats.

Isabella; or, The Pot of Basil
Summary: Isabella and Lorenzo are in love. Isabella’s brothers consider it an improper match and murder Lorenzo. Lorenzo comes to Isabella in a vision and tells her that he’s dead and where his grave is (approximately). Isabella digs up his body and takes his head and puts it in a pot in which she grows basil. Cries a lot over the pot. Basil flourishes. Brothers find out what’s in pot, are exiled. Isabella’s pot taken away, she is sad and crazy.
Notes: Crazy gothic story. Vampirism. Ghosts. Murder. Decay. “A Story From Boccaccio.”

The Eve of St. Agnes
Summary: Madeline and Porphyro get it on, but everything around them is dying, which is probably a bad sign.

Someone should really make these into Keats haiku. Like the dissertation haiku. Marie, we could could have a set of hip hop haiku keats! YO URN!