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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... poet in Indolence , Psyche , and Nightingale , he has become the self- effacing and anonymous speaker , not specified as a poet , of Autumn . The Byronic language of irony , which , as I have said , appears briefly in Indolence , is ...
... poet in Indolence , Psyche , and Nightingale , he has become the self- effacing and anonymous speaker , not specified as a poet , of Autumn . The Byronic language of irony , which , as I have said , appears briefly in Indolence , is ...
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Helen Vendler. poet a mythological doubling of the self as a visible Cupid ; in the second , the poet in his own person becomes the allegorical Love . In the drama of these parallel experiments- the poet in the first so passive , a ...
Helen Vendler. poet a mythological doubling of the self as a visible Cupid ; in the second , the poet in his own person becomes the allegorical Love . In the drama of these parallel experiments- the poet in the first so passive , a ...
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... poet , make the poet's progress one that goes downward to darkness . The suggestions of elements of the grave in the poet's bower add to the notion of descent , and at the point of deepest des- cent Keats writes the greatest stanza of ...
... poet , make the poet's progress one that goes downward to darkness . The suggestions of elements of the grave in the poet's bower add to the notion of descent , and at the point of deepest des- cent Keats writes the greatest stanza of ...
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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