Dialogical Odes by John Keats: Mythologically Revisited
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Theory and Practice in Language Studies, Vol. 4, No. 8, pp. 1730-1734, August 2014
© 2014 ACADEMY PUBLISHER Manufactured in Finland. doi:10.4304/tpls.4.8.1730-1734 Dialogical Odes by John Keats: Mythologically
Revisited
Somayyeh Hashemi
Department of English, Tabriz Branch, Islamic Azad University, Tabriz, Iran
Bahram Kazemian
Department of English, Tabriz Branch, Islamic Azad University, Tabriz, Iran
Abstract—This paper, using Mikhail Bakhtin’s theory of dialogism tries to investigate the indications of dialogic voice in Odes by John Keats. Indeed this study goes through the dialogic reading of ‘Ode to a
Nightingale’, ‘Ode on a Grecian Urn’, ‘Ode to Psyche’, and ‘Ode on Melancholy’, considering mythological outlooks. Analyzing Keats’s odes through dialogical perspective may reveal that Keats plays a role of an involved and social poet of his own time. Moreover, Keats embraces the world of fancy and imagination to free himself from sufferings of his society. Keats’ odes are influenced by expression of pain-joy reality by which he builds up a dialogue with readers trying to display his own political and social engagement. Applying various kinds of mythological elements and figures within the odes may disclose Keats’s historical response and reaction toward a conflicted society and human grieves in general.
Index Terms—Bakhtinian dialogism, Keats’ Odes, pain, pleasure, mythology
I. INTRODUCTION
John Keats as one of the major poets of Romanticism, composed multiple popular poems and his odes gained the most attention of them. Going through his odes, it appears to the reader that Keats attempts to deal with different interpretation of pain and pleasure concepts. Despite the pure Romanic nature of his poems that requires them to pinpoint the most personal issues of the poet, here in his odes, his persistent challenge with ever-existing delight and sorrows of human life inspires a kind of communication with and a response
Theory and Practice in Language Studies, Vol. 4, No. 8, pp. 1730-1734, August 2014
© 2014 ACADEMY PUBLISHER Manufactured in Finland. doi:10.4304/tpls.4.8.1730-1734 Dialogical Odes by John Keats: Mythologically
Revisited
Somayyeh Hashemi
Department of English, Tabriz Branch, Islamic Azad University, Tabriz, Iran
Bahram Kazemian
Department of English, Tabriz Branch, Islamic Azad University, Tabriz, Iran
Abstract—This paper, using Mikhail Bakhtin’s theory of dialogism tries to investigate the indications of dialogic voice in Odes by John Keats. Indeed this study goes through the dialogic reading of ‘Ode to a
Nightingale’, ‘Ode on a Grecian Urn’, ‘Ode to Psyche’, and ‘Ode on Melancholy’, considering mythological outlooks. Analyzing Keats’s odes through dialogical perspective may reveal that Keats plays a role of an involved and social poet of his own time. Moreover, Keats embraces the world of fancy and imagination to free himself from sufferings of his society. Keats’ odes are influenced by expression of pain-joy reality by which he builds up a dialogue with readers trying to display his own political and social engagement. Applying various kinds of mythological elements and figures within the odes may disclose Keats’s historical response and reaction toward a conflicted society and human grieves in general.
Index Terms—Bakhtinian dialogism, Keats’ Odes, pain, pleasure, mythology
I. INTRODUCTION
John Keats as one of the major poets of Romanticism, composed multiple popular poems and his odes gained the most attention of them. Going through his odes, it appears to the reader that Keats attempts to deal with different interpretation of pain and pleasure concepts. Despite the pure Romanic nature of his poems that requires them to pinpoint the most personal issues of the poet, here in his odes, his persistent challenge with ever-existing delight and sorrows of human life inspires a kind of communication with and a response
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