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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... earth - but rather the second , the fruit gathered with ease at its maturity . ( His swallows were originally ... earth have become " for death mature . " Otherwise , the sun itself would be useless and barren ; only in the perishable ...
... earth - but rather the second , the fruit gathered with ease at its maturity . ( His swallows were originally ... earth have become " for death mature . " Otherwise , the sun itself would be useless and barren ; only in the perishable ...
Page 248
... earth so that she may bear fruit . Heaven and earth embrace , " and forth the particulars of rapture come , " in Stevens ' words . But in Keats's ver- sion , the sky - god is Apollo the sun , the earth - goddess is Autumn , and their ...
... earth so that she may bear fruit . Heaven and earth embrace , " and forth the particulars of rapture come , " in Stevens ' words . But in Keats's ver- sion , the sky - god is Apollo the sun , the earth - goddess is Autumn , and their ...
Page 265
... earth's bourn while its sounds are borne aloft ( Keats would have been conscious of the echoing " bourn " - " borne " of earth and heaven ) . Just as the human figure in the second stanza rises almost im- perceptibly from among the ...
... earth's bourn while its sounds are borne aloft ( Keats would have been conscious of the echoing " bourn " - " borne " of earth and heaven ) . Just as the human figure in the second stanza rises almost im- perceptibly from among the ...
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active aesthetic allegorical allowed Apollo appear attempt Autumn Beauty becomes beginning bird bower brain called close cloud comes course death divinity dream earlier earth Endymion existence experience eyes face fact fade Fall Fancy feeling figures final flowers follow fruit give gnats goddess grape hand happy harvest hope human Hyperion imagination Indolence intensity Keats Keats's language later leaves Letters light listening means Melancholy Milton mind Moneta's mythological natural never Nightingale object offered once opening origins pain passage philosophical pleasure poem Poesy poet poetry present propositional Psyche question realm relation remains represented scene season seems seen sensation sense sensual shape song sorrow soul speak spirit stanza symbol things thou thought tion true truth turn vision visual voice wings wish writing