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 137
... spring adieu These sentences employ forms of extreme propositional simplicity ; they are verbal " yes " and " no " markers : leave song ? No be bare ? No kiss ? No fade ? No have bliss ? No love for ever ? Yes be fair ? Yes shed leaves ...
... spring adieu These sentences employ forms of extreme propositional simplicity ; they are verbal " yes " and " no " markers : leave song ? No be bare ? No kiss ? No fade ? No have bliss ? No love for ever ? Yes be fair ? Yes shed leaves ...
Page 247
... spring at the beginning of the last stanza , and to the equal backward glance to spring lambs in speaking of the autumnal full - grown sheep ; it also summons up the rosy bloom of the close . For the moment , we can leave this ...
... spring at the beginning of the last stanza , and to the equal backward glance to spring lambs in speaking of the autumnal full - grown sheep ; it also summons up the rosy bloom of the close . For the moment , we can leave this ...
Page 258
... spring , always ( in the human case ) magical , since it contravenes death : " Spring come to you at the farthest / In the very end of harvest . " There are no stubble - plains in The Tempest . But Keats will not invoke either a banquet ...
... spring , always ( in the human case ) magical , since it contravenes death : " Spring come to you at the farthest / In the very end of harvest . " There are no stubble - plains in The Tempest . But Keats will not invoke either a banquet ...
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