The Odes of John KeatsBelknap Press of Harvard University Press, 1983 - 330 pages Argues that Keat's six odes form a sequence, identifies their major themes, and provides detailed interpretations of the poems' philosophy, mythological references, and lyric structures. |
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Page 84
... bower add to the notion of descent , and at the point of deepest des- cent Keats writes the greatest stanza of the ode : I cannot see what flowers are at my feet , Nor what soft incense hangs upon the boughs , But , in embalmed darkness ...
... bower add to the notion of descent , and at the point of deepest des- cent Keats writes the greatest stanza of the ode : I cannot see what flowers are at my feet , Nor what soft incense hangs upon the boughs , But , in embalmed darkness ...
Page 90
... bower scene , that self - interment at the center of the poem . After his two early rejections- of the wine which induces a false ecstasy , and of the world which cannot sustain happiness - the poet approaches , in the bower , the ...
... bower scene , that self - interment at the center of the poem . After his two early rejections- of the wine which induces a false ecstasy , and of the world which cannot sustain happiness - the poet approaches , in the bower , the ...
Page 92
... bower , a conceit dear to Keats from Endymion on . At the same time , the flies make the bower complete , Keats excludes nothing from the bower , not even overripeness and carrion - presences , however delicately intimated , and his ...
... bower , a conceit dear to Keats from Endymion on . At the same time , the flies make the bower complete , Keats excludes nothing from the bower , not even overripeness and carrion - presences , however delicately intimated , and his ...
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adieu aesthetic allegorical Ambition Apollo autumn ode Beauty bird bower brain budding casement cloud conceptual Cupid and Psyche death diction divinity dream drowsy earth Endymion erotic eternal eyes fade Fall of Hyperion Fancy Fanny Brawne feeling figures flowers frieze fruit gnats goddess happy harvest human imagination immortal Indolence intellectual John Keats Keats Keats's Keatsian landscape language last stanza Letters listening medium Melan melody Milton mimetic mind Moneta Moneta's face Mutability mythological natural Nightingale numbers Ode on Indolence Ode on Melancholy ode To Autumn Ode to Psyche pain Paradise Lost passage pastoral philosophical poem Poesy poet poetry propositional Proserpine Psyche's question realm represented rhythm sacrifice Saturn scene season second stanza sensation sense sensual Shakespeare shape shrine sing song sonnet sorrow soul speak Spenserian spirit sweet symbol thee thou thought tion transubstantiation trope truth vision visual voice wine wings wish