Ode on Indolence
Ode on Indolence Summary In the first stanza, Keats's speaker describes a vision he had one morning of three strange figures wearing white robes and "placid sandals." The figures passed by in profile, and the speaker describes their passing by comparing them to figures carved into the side of a marble urn, or vase. When the last figure passed by, the first figure reappeared, just as would happen if one turned a vase carved with figures before one's eyes. In the second stanza, the speaker addresses the figures directly, asking them how it was that he did not recognize them and how they managed to sneak up on him. He suspects them of trying to "steal away, and leave without a task" his "idle days," and goes on to describe how he passed the morning before their arrival: by lazily enjoying the summer day in a sort of sublime numbness. He asks the figures why they did not disappear and leave him to this indolent nothingness. In the third stanza, the figures pass by for a third time. The speaker feels a powerful urge to rise up and follow them, because he now recognizes them: the first is a "fair maid," Love; the second is pale-cheeked Ambition; and the third, whom the speaker seems to love despite himself, is the unmeek maiden, the demon Poesy, or poetry. When the figures disappear in the fourth stanza, the speaker again aches to follow them, but he says that the urge is
Compare the ways in which John Keats in To Autumn and Robert Browning in Home Thoughts From Abroad treat the different seasons
Compare the ways in which John Keats in To Autumn and Robert Browning in Home Thoughts From Abroad treat the different seasons Both the seasons mention spring. In To Autumn the author (John Keats) talks about spring as being something that is long missed. 'where are the songs of spring'. This could be reflected upon as something that is missed or yearned for. In Home Thoughts From Abroad Robert Browning talks about the season of spring. Although it is not directly talked about in the poem the author suggests that it is good to be in England at that time. 'Now that April is there.' April is the season of spring. This shows that both the poems treat the seasons differently. In To Autumn the author describes the season as if he is actually there. 'To swell the gourd, and plump the hazel shells.' Yet, in the other poem Robert Browning describes spring as if he is looking in from another country into England. 'Far brighter than this gaudy melon flower.' Both the poems give ideas of imagery, To Autumn gives ideas of fruits and the fullness of Autumn. When the poem describes the bees it says how the honey overflows the cells of the bee hive. 'For summer has o'er-brimmed their clammy cells'. In Home Thoughts From Abroad it gives the imagery of how children run about looking for buttercups. They then put them under their chin and it shows whether they like butter or
Write an appreciation of 'To Autumn'. Consider poetic techniques, use of imagery, diction, rhythm etc, appeals to senses, the effectiveness of the poem for the reader, must be hand written.
Write an appreciation of 'To Autumn'. Consider poetic techniques, use of imagery, diction, rhythm etc, appeals to senses, the effectiveness of the poem for the reader, must be hand written. In this essay I will try to explain how John Keats writes the ode 'To Autumn'. This means I will analyse the poem, and to the extent of my knowledge pick out the poetic techniques Keats uses. These will include, personification, the use of imagery, diction, rhythm, appeals to senses, similes, metaphors etc. To begin with he personifies the whole poem as if he where talking to the actually inanimate Autumn. Through the whole poem it is as if he was talking to Autumn, or maybe even Autumn is being meant as Mother Nature. An example of this is line 2, 'Close bosom-friend of the maturing sun.' This I believe means that Autumn is in cooperation with the life giving sun to ripen the crops. Also he compares Autumn and Spring through personification by saying, 'Where are the songs of Spring,' and, 'thou hast thy music too.' Both these seasons have been personified which shows that maybe Autumn is not Mother Nature, but that each season is a different person with a different personality. As an example this could mean that Summer may be uncomfortable climatically, whereas Autumn may have a great climate. The impression that Keats gives to me of Autumn is that he, she or it is careless and lazy,
The Nightingale and the rose contains a main character that undergoes the hardship. How does Oscar Wilde sympathise with the Nightingale?
The Nightingale and the rose contains a main character that undergoes the hardship. How does Oscar Wilde sympathise with the Nightingale? "The Nightingale and the Rose" contains a character that undergoes hardship. Oscar Wilde makes us sympathise with the Nightingale by clever use of situation and language. "The Nightingale and the rose" is set in a fairytale style genre; this also helps create sympathy for the Nightingale. In "The Nightingale and the Rose", the Student needs a red rose because "If I bring her a red rose she will dance with me till dawn. If I bring her a red rose, I shall hold her in my arms" this shows us that the student desires to be with her, and really wants a red rose. "But there is no red rose in my garden" this creates sympathy for the student because he wishes to be with her but without a red rose she shall not go with him to the dance. The Nightingale overhears the student speaking, and feels he is a "true lover", the Nightingale believes the student is a true romantic and believes in true love. The nightingale feels sympathy for the student and goes to find him a red rose. The nightingale must sacrifice her own life for a red rose. The nightingale thinks and decides that "love is better than life, and what is the heart of a bird compared to the heart of a man". This shows that the nightingale is a kind-hearted bird and is willing to sacrifice her
Compare and Contrast Keat's Ode to a Nightingale, Ode on a Grecian Urn and To Autumn.
Compare and Contrast Keat's Ode to a Nightingale, Ode on a Grecian Urn and To Autumn The first two poems Ode to a Nightingale and Ode on a Grecian Urn are very similar in their structure and message. Keat's is tired of the mortal world and can only see the negative things in his life and so he looks for an escape. It is not only his own pain that depresses him, it is the fact that humans also feel the pain of others and a heavy influence in this poem was that he wrote it not long after the death of his brother. Which is most likely what inspired the following quotation:- "The weariness, the fever, the fret. Here, where men sit and hear each other groan. Where palsy shakes a few last grey hairs." Keat's feels this is the curse of intelligence. Having a big brain allows us to see others suffering which upsets us and a big brain also causes us to worry constantly about the consequences of our actions causing huge stress and anxiety:- " Where but to think is to full of sorrow." This depression causes him to seek an escape, a way of numbing his brain to find blissful ignorance. To find a place where he doesn't have to worry about the terrible things which mortal life can throw at you. The methods of escape that he considers are suicide:- " I have been half in love with easeful death," Poison:- "My sense as though of hemlock I had drunk." Alcohol:- " That I might drink, and
Keats. In the poems To Autumn, a lyrical portrayal of the season itself and La Belle Dame Sans Merci, a literary ballad featuring a despairing knight in a fairytale plot,
Read again 'To Autumn' by Keats. This poem makes a strong appeal to our senses. Compare this poem with one other poem which also makes a strong appeal to the reader. You should refer closely to the language used in both poems. In the poems 'To Autumn', a lyrical portrayal of the season itself and 'La Belle Dame Sans Merci', a literary ballad featuring a despairing knight in a fairytale plot, by one of the well known Romantics, John Keats, a strong appeal is given across to the reader. In both of them, a lot of sensuous detail can be seen to help make the 'story' of the poems interesting for the reader. The theme of nature is used to help appeal to the reader in both poems. In 'To Autumn', for example, ''And fill all fruit with ripeness to the core;/To swell the gourd, and plump the hazel shells/With a sweet kernel' portrays the sense that Autumn is seen a season of ripeness, calm and beauty by the poet. In addition the long vowel sounds in 'To Autumn' make it melodic as the words flow quite slowly and smoothly. and Then in 'La Belle Dame Sans Merci' the nature is used as pathetic fallacy; 'The sedge is wither'd from the lake,/ And no birds sing.' reflects how the knight-at-arms feels inside as even nature is dying and gone away like the 'alone and palely loitering' knight has as he finds himself under the power of 'La Belle Dame sans Merci'. Furthermore, unlike 'To Autumn'
Keats gains inspiration from many sources, the most important of which is the natural world. Explore the varied poetic uses Keats makes of nature in the 'Ode on Melancholy' and 'Ode to Autumn'
Nicola White Keats gains inspiration from many sources, the most important of which is the natural world. Explore the varied poetic uses Keats makes of nature in the 'Ode on Melancholy' and 'Ode to Autumn' Keats refers to nature in many of his poems. The natural world and the human world are inspiring to him and he portrays both these ideas in the poem 'Ode on Melancholy.' He describes nature and its beauty through descriptive language in this ode. In this ode nature present the joys in life as well its melancholic ways. Keats uses themes of mutability, nature and its course and synaesthesia. These inspirations Keats uses enable him to be a universally renowned poet as the themes give his poems individuality. Keats wrote during the Romantic period and observations and description of the natural world were very typical of writers in the period. Nature is shown in several forms throughout 'Ode on Melancholy' and 'Ode to Autumn' as Keats learns to accept the truth of life and all of its qualities and nature helps discover and highlight this. 'Ode to Melancholy' begins with the descriptions of nature through the idea of suffering. Negative images are displayed, "No, no" telling you not to reject melancholy but learn to accept it. Poisonous plants are mentioned showing the idea of suicide, "wolf's-bane" and its "poisonous wine" suggests death and sickness through imagery of
How do the two poets use Visual Description to contribute to their Underlying Theme? - Keats and Hopkins in 'Hurrahing in harvest' and 'To Autumn'.
HOW DO THE TWO POETS USE VISUAL DESCRIPTION TO CONTRIBUTE TO THEIR UNDERLYING THEME? There are many similarities between the descriptions of the two poets and probably the most obvious is that both of the poems refer to the seasons with Keats and Hopkins in 'Hurrahing in Harvest' and 'To Autumn' referring to autumn and Hopkins to spring in 'Spring'. Both of the poets use the these natural events (the seasons) to suggest their own underlying means even though they are different and they also use personification all throughout the poems to suggest their underlying mean and an example of this would be two titles of the poems 'Hurrahing in Harvest' and 'To Autumn' which both personify the seasons. However even though from a glance both of the poems look like they are suggesting similar things this is not true because if a closer look is taken it is clear that both of the poets use lots of description but that it is very different because looking at Hopkins poems he uses sort of riddles and an example of this would be in 'Hurrahing in Harvest' and this is shown in the following quote: Of silk-sack clouds! has wilder, willful-wavier Meal-drift moulded ever and melted across skies? Looking at the words highlighted in blue this is an Anglo Saxon riddles (a kenning) used to describe the clouds as if they were floating around in the sky and he used these riddles so that he did
Rich Sensuousness, well-wrought form and depth of thought are characteristics of Keats poetry. By means of a comparative study examine how Keats poetry reflects these features.
THE ODES Q. Rich Sensuousness, well-wrought form and depth of thought are characteristics of Keats poetry. By means of a comparative study examine how Keats poetry reflects these features. A. The three main odes I will discuss are: Ode to autumn, Ode on Grecian Urn and Ode to Melancholy. The Odes bring to perfection Keats's command of form and richly meaningful use of the English Language. Melancholy -which today perhaps he called depression- was a state at which Keats was very familiar. The inspiration of the Ode came from a book on the subject by Burton who proposed various remedies to alleviate the 'melancholy fit'. The first stanza of the Ode emphatically rejects these remedies, which induce oblivion and associate melancholy with thoughts of death. They numb the sense and dull the keen edge of the melancholic experience. The "rosary of yew-berries" can be easily pictured, the sinister berries of the tree that symbolizes death strung together for the purpose of counting one's prayer. Keat begins the second stanza by referring for the first time in the poem to melancholy as a disease, a "fit" (line eleven) whose onset is as sudden as a spring shower. The lush imagery of lines twelve and fourteen quickly lures attention away from melancholy to the marvel of an April rain, yet the poet is all the while at work characterizing melancholy itself by means of this extended
Pain is an integral part of Keats vision of the world - A delight in the life of the senses - Is it possible to reconcile these comments?
Keats - pain and senses Pain is an integral part of Keatss vision of the world A delight in the life of the senses Is it possible to reconcile these comments? In Keatss poetry he certainly experiences both pain and senses. To some extent he uses these feelings simultaneously and I believe that it is this quality that gives his poetry the depth and impact it has. In An Ode To A Nightingale, Keats begins by explaining the nature and cause of the sadness he is experiencing, sadness translated into a physical ache and a "drowsy numbness. He feels as he might if he had "of hemlock drunk or "emptied some dull opiate to the drains. He clearly portrays how he is in both mental and physical pain. The language in the first stanza also contrasts strongly, where we can see it being used effectively to create a certain mood. In the opening of the poem for example, a sense of sluggish heaviness is suggested by the heavy thudding alliterative sounds produced by the repetition of d - "drowsy and "drunk additionally the repetition of m with "numb, "hemlock and "minute. If we compare this to the effects created in the second half of the stanza by the light assonantal - "trees, "beechen green and sibilant sounds "shadows, "singest, "summer the reader can see that the nightingale, in comparison to the poet, is a much freer spirit. The poet uses this creative writing to bring to life the