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 91
... bower . The brief glance back to sight and touch in the verdurous glooms and mossy ways is preparatory to the true underworld venture of the poem . Nonetheless , by invoking- even if to dismiss - the Moon , the stars , and the blown ...
... bower . The brief glance back to sight and touch in the verdurous glooms and mossy ways is preparatory to the true underworld venture of the poem . Nonetheless , by invoking- even if to dismiss - the Moon , the stars , and the blown ...
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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