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Pre-1914 poetry – After dark vapours have oppress’d our plains

In this essay  I will be investigate the work of a famous poet called John Keats and one of his well known poems entitled “After dark vapours have oppress’d our plains.”

John Keats was born on October 31st in London, England and sadly died on February 23rd in Rome, Papal States of T.B. John Keats poems often revolved around romance, but this was not always the case. John wrote many poems such as  – “After dark vapours have oppress’d plains”  the poem that I will be exploring  and “.”

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In the poem I had come across certain lines in the opening paragraph, that had the use of metaphorical terms which indicated that this poem is about an illness that has recently passed over. The first phrase that struck me was “for a long dreary season, comes a day,” which suggested to me that something had happened over a long period of time, and also that a day of rest had finally appeared. One word that particularly interested me was “dreary,” because dreary is a mood of unhappiness and dullness. Another line that gives me this feeling is “the ...

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