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 37
... sensual diction ( even if it is used , as it is here , to describe a spiritual state in which the senses themselves are benumbed and the pulse is lessened ) . Its elements include , as in so many other passages we shall encounter ...
... sensual diction ( even if it is used , as it is here , to describe a spiritual state in which the senses themselves are benumbed and the pulse is lessened ) . Its elements include , as in so many other passages we shall encounter ...
Page 121
... sensual music or " our " rhyme , but rather one favoring the love on the urn over our " breathing human passion " far below it . To recapitulate : neither the naive factual questioning nor the naive thoughtless empathy is allowed to ...
... sensual music or " our " rhyme , but rather one favoring the love on the urn over our " breathing human passion " far below it . To recapitulate : neither the naive factual questioning nor the naive thoughtless empathy is allowed to ...
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... sensual world : it is not intermittent , as in In- dolence , not antithetical , as in Nightingale and Urn , not parallel , as in Psyche ( where the interior world of mind contains a replica of the outer world of history and the senses ) ...
... sensual world : it is not intermittent , as in In- dolence , not antithetical , as in Nightingale and Urn , not parallel , as in Psyche ( where the interior world of mind contains a replica of the outer world of history and the senses ) ...
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