Keats help please

Keats’ personifies the 'fullness' of the month autumn through an excess of syllables in a single line of poetry.

That isn't 'personification'. I think that, both in and out of an exam, you should be careful when using technical vocabulary metaphorically.

Quotations:

If I wanted to learn short quotations, I would copy them onto a sheet of paper then read it a few times.

For Keats, however, I took a different approach. I memorised the Odes by reading them several times, and then making an effort to commit each stanza to memory, repeating it in my head. Finally I just wrote them all out without the text. This sounds like an awful lot, but learning six medium-length poems isn't really a mammoth task. I spent a couple of days on it, but I think it was the best possible preparation: the Odes are rich enough to provide sufficient material for any question the board might set, and by learning complete poems you will also be able to talk about argument and structure.

Besides this I memorised a few important phrases from letters (Negative Capability, etc.) and a some lines here and there from 'Fancy', 'Hyperion' and 'Endymion' (this last proved useful for discussing the earlier Keats). For these I just emplyed the 'write it out and read it through' technique. I also read a few critical essays, but didn't learn quotations - I just remembered the arguments.

If you want to be absolutely sure that you'll have something to talk about, just learn the Odes! (However, I think the rubric insists on including letters / "context" of some kind... spurious)

That isn't 'personification'. I think that, both in and out of an exam, you should be careful when using technical vocabulary metaphorically.

Quotations:

If I wanted to learn short quotations, I would copy them onto a sheet of paper then read it a few times.

For Keats, however, I took a different approach. I memorised the Odes by reading them several times, and then making an effort to commit each stanza to memory, repeating it in my head. Finally I just wrote them all out without the text. This sounds like an awful lot, but learning six medium-length poems isn't really a mammoth task. I spent a couple of days on it, but I think it was the best possible preparation: the Odes are rich enough to provide sufficient material for any question the board might set, and by learning complete poems you will also be able to talk about argument and structure.

Besides this I memorised a few important phrases from letters (Negative Capability, etc.) and a some lines here and there from 'Fancy', 'Hyperion' and 'Endymion' (this last proved useful for discussing the earlier Keats). For these I just emplyed the 'write it out and read it through' technique. I also read a few critical essays, but didn't learn quotations - I just remembered the arguments.

If you want to be absolutely sure that you'll have something to talk about, just learn the Odes! (However, I think the rubric insists on including letters / "context" of some kind... spurious)