Ode to the West Wind is a poem addressed to the west wind. It is personified both as a "Destroyer" and a "Preserver". It is seen as a great power of nature that destroys in order to create‚ that kills the unhealthy and the decaying to make way for the new and the fresh. The personification of the west wind as an enchanter‚ as a wild spirit is characteristic of Shelley’s poetry. Shelley’s personification of the west wind can be called "myth poesies"‚ another kind of metaphor. The poem is divided
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The Chinese Vase is a representative of trends in porcelain decoration during the reign of the Kangxi Emperor‚ the second ruler of the Qing Dynasty (1644-1911). The two scenes in this vase represent an interesting visual riff on the narrative technique (prof Besio). Both the top and the bottom scenes can be divided into 3 sections‚ with top and bottom paralleling each other: trees growing in a garden; human figures in a garden; and‚ contiguous and open to the garden‚ an interior of a scholar’s study
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"When I Have Fears‚” a poem written by John Keats is a written out message of Keats fears and insecurities of failure and longing. When Keats comes forth and proclaims his fear of death when he states “When I have fears that I may cease to be‚ before my pen has glean’d my teeming brain‚”(1-2) which exclaims the notion hes afraid to die before he becomes something great. Whether he wants to write a poem of legendary stature or be able to get all of his thoughts out onto paper is the question being
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Jessie John March 3rd‚ 2014 Close Reading Assignment #2 Prof. Ribitzky This essay will discuss a close reading analysis of the poem “The Bright Star”. The Romantic poet John Keats wrote this poem. It is a love sonnet and is believed that it was written for his love and fiancé’ Fanny Brawne. Keats writes the poem in iambic pentameter. The poem revolves around Keats love for stars and about nature’s beauty. The whole poem is written with a rhyming scheme
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AN ODE To Autumn Summary Keats’s speaker opens his first stanza by addressing Autumn‚ describing its abundance and its intimacy with the sun‚ with whom Autumn ripens fruits and causes the late flowers to bloom. In the second stanza‚ the speaker describes the figure of Autumn as a female goddess‚ often seen sitting on the granary floor‚ her hair “soft-lifted” by the wind‚ and often seen sleeping in the fields or watching a cider-press squeezing the juice from apples. In the third stanza‚ the speaker
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March 19‚ 2012 Explication on “Ode on Melancholy” In "Ode on Melancholy" John Keats expresses to readers the truth he sees‚ that joy and pain are inseparable and to experience joy fully we must experience sadness fully. Keats valued intensity of emotion‚ thought‚ and experience (“Classification Of Poem”). Keats does not stray away from the suggestion that feeling intensely means that grief or depression may cause sorrow and torture. Throughout the poem Keats expresses his values and emotions
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COMPARE AND CONTRAST “ODE TO THE WEST WIND” AND “ODE TO A NIGHTINGALE” “Ode to the West wind” and “Ode to a Nightingale” are two of the main representative poems of the second generation of the Romantic period. Even though Shelley and Keats literary works are both lyric poems they portray some similarities as well as differences. To begin with‚ both poems share a similar genre‚ form and theme. First‚ it can be mentioned that both are odes since they are short lyric poems that have a complicated
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Some shape of beauty moves away the pall From our dark spirits. (I‚ 4-13) Here Keats determines upon the necessity of having beauty in the lives‚ particularly things of beauty and the poem is one of those very objects. The production of a thing of beauty seems to be all the justification Keats needs to write at this point in the poem and at this stage in his poetic career. He is not speaking of the
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In John Keat’s poem “When I Have Fears That I May Cease to Be” he talks about all the things he will not get to experience because he will die soon. In the poem he talks about that he never got to travel and that is something that in my life I really would like to experience. Three things that I would like to experience before I die is to see the ocean. I would also want to go to France I think it would really fun to go another continent. The last thing I want to do before I die is to graduate college
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Similarities and dissimilarities Though P. B. Shelley and John Keats were mutual friends‚ but they have possessed the diversified qualities in their creativity. These two are the great contributors of English Literature‚ though their lifecycle were very short. Their comparison are also little with each other‚ while each are very much similar in thoughts‚ imagination‚ creation and also their lifetime. 01) Attitude towards the Nature P. B. Shelley: Whereas older Romantic poets looked at nature as
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