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Referred to by critics of the time as "the longest and most personal of the odes," the poem describes Keats journey into the state of Negative Capability. The poem explores the themes of nature, transience and mortality, the latter being the most personal to Keats, making as he does a direct reference to the death in of his brother, Tom. The rhyme scheme ababcdecde has a link to the Sonnet form.

The poet makes use of enjambment between stanzas two and three. In his poem Ode to a Nightingale, which he writes after the death of his younger brother, he uses imagery to explicate his pain. At the same time, he is using imagery to contrast the magical impact of melodious music of a nightingale. Here, Keats takes poetic license. While he addresses the nightingale as an individual bird, the implication of thou immortal bird is that he is addressing the species.

This is followed be an image wherein Keats joins the bird with the help of Bacchus. The classical allusion to Bacchus creates an image of rollicking fun and gaiety. The full-throated ease leads Keats to the dream of an extremely enjoyable summer of Dance and Provencal song, and sun burnt mirth. This image of dance, music, and rollicking fun is heightened by the contrasting reference to human misery, weariness, the fever and the fret.

The image of human misery is very profound when Keats alludes to his brothers death "Where youth grows pale , and spectre-thin and dies Where but to think is to be full of sorrow and leaden-eyed despairs". As the poem progresses, Keats associates his death with the song. The image used by Keats of a human body becoming a clod of earth, the human body becoming one with the earth creates a vision of coffin being lowered into grave and covered by shovels of earth, the human body becoming one with earth and all the time sweet music being produced by the nightingale.

We see possibly a castle on the rocky shores with the sea waves rising up, and slapping the walls of the castle and slowly, as if by magic, the windows open. The image of the windows opening on stormy sea is evocative of some fairy princess being imprisoned by some ogre. This image works like a bell and the poet is tossed back to the world of reality.

Keats is left wondering at his state - wake or sleep. Each image heightens the feeling that changes from sheer pain and numbness to fairy lands and a bell tolling back to reality. The third stanza discusses the death of his brother, Tom, while the sixth expresses Keatss own fear of death. Written in , 'Ode on a Grecian Urn' was the third of the five 'great odes' of , which are generally believed to have been written in the following order - Psyche, Nightingale, Grecian Urn, Melancholy, and Autumn.

Of the five, Grecian Urn and Melancholy are merely dated ''. He is preoccupied with its depiction of pictures frozen in time. It is the "still unravish'd bride of quietness," the "foster-child of silence and slow time. He wonders about the figures on the side of the urn and asks what legend they depict and from where they come. What struggle to escape?

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What wild ecstasy? The speaker says that the piper's "unheard" melodies are sweeter than mortal melodies because they are unaffected by time. He tells the youth that, though he can never kiss his lover because he is frozen in time, he should not grieve, because her beauty will never fade. He is happy for the piper because his songs will be "for ever new," and happy that the love of the boy and the girl will last forever, unlike mortal love, which lapses into "breathing human passion" and eventually vanishes, leaving behind only a "burning forehead, and a parching tongue.

He wonders where they are going "To what green altar, O mysterious priest He imagines their little town, empty of all its citizens, and tells it that its streets will "for evermore" be silent, for those who have left it, frozen on the urn, will never return. His idle curiosity in the first attempt gives way to a more deeply felt identification in the second, and in the third, the speaker leaves his own concerns behind and thinks of the processional purely on its own terms, thinking of the "little town" with a real and generous feeling.

The third attempt fails simply because there is nothing more to say--once the speaker confronts the silence and eternal emptiness of the little town, he has reached the limit of static art on this subject, at least, there is nothing more the urn can tell him. It can be a "friend to man," as the speaker says, but it cannot be mortal the kind of aesthetic connection the speaker experiences with the urn is ultimately insufficient to human life.

If it is the speaker addressing the urn, then it would seem to indicate his awareness of its limitations The urn may not need to know anything beyond the equation of beauty and truth, but the complications of human life make it impossible for such a simple and self-contained phrase to express sufficiently anything about necessary human knowledge.

It is largely a matter of personal interpretation which reading to accept. Each of the five stanzas in "Grecian Urn" is ten lines long, metered in a relatively precise iambic pentameter, and divided into a two part rhyme scheme, the last three lines of which are variable. As in other odes especially "Autumn" and "Melancholy" , the two-part rhyme scheme the first part made of AB rhymes, the second of CDE rhymes creates the sense of a two-part thematic structure as well.

As in other odes, this is only a general rule, true of some stanzas more than others stanzas such as the fifth do not connect rhyme scheme and thematic structure closely at all. For shade to shade will come too drowsily, And drown the wakeful anguish of the soul. Line 43 Ode on Melancholy Summary In the second stanza, the speaker tells the sufferer what to do in place of the things he forbade in the first stanza.

When afflicted with "the melancholy fit," the sufferer should instead overwhelm his sorrow with natural beauty, glutting it on the morning rose, "on the rainbow of the salt sand-wave," or in the eyes of his beloved. Turning to poison while the bee-mouth sips. Line 2, wolf's-bane poison Line 4, nightshade poison Proserpine the queen of the underworld.

Proserpine was kidnapped by Pluto and taken to Hades, his kingdom. Her mother Demeter, the goddess of fertility and grain, grieve for her loss and the earth became sterile. Line 5, yew-berries symbol of mourning. The yew is traditionally associated with mourning. Line 7, Psyche in Greek, the soul or mind as well as butterfly used as its emblem.

Line 8, mysteries secret rites. He is comparing it to reaping a rich harvest. Each line is clearly end-stopped as it coincides with the end of an idea or clause. TONE: is light. And when I feel, fair creature of an hour! The sonnet is a extended sentence with a difficult syntax in which Keats explores the tension between the cold, permanent star and his mutable, but warm love.

Fanny Brawne. The words highlighted in pink help create this impression. Bright star, would I were stedfast as thou art— Not in lone splendour hung aloft the night, And watching, with eternal lids apart, Like nature's patient, sleepless Eremite, The moving waters at their priestlike task Of pure ablution round earth's human shores, Or gazing on the new soft-fallen mask Of snow upon the mountains and the moors -.

UNSW Press, Byron, Glennis. John Keats — Selected Poems. A sonnet is a fourteen-line lyric poem, usually about love. John Keats John Keats John Keats lived only twenty- five years, yet his poetic achievement was extraordinary. His writing career lasted a little. Similar presentations. Upload Log in. My presentations Profile Feedback Log out.

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