I am noticing that with some of the authors, their lives seem to be cut short from illness, such as Keat's unfortunate tragedy of losing his mother at an early age, then losing is brother. With these losses, he had lost inspiration to continue his works. Even he himself ended up with the same disease that his mother and brother had, and died in the prime of his life. However his works where well known before and after his death.
Keat poems created a world of imagination, an escape of unhappyness, and passing of time. In Ode to a Nightingale, pg.438, he listens to a real nightingale sing and feels joy and pain at the same time. As the poems moves on, is this a real nightingale or does he use the bird to symbolize his feelings about nature, joy, and pain? Even in this poem he talks about drinking which to me seems a way to escape, "With beaded bubbles winking at the brim, and purple-stained mouth(wine perhaps) that I might drink, and leave the world unseen, and with thee fade away into the forest dim:"
Not sure if this poem is real experience or just a daydream.
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Gloria,
From reading Keats's poem, it is not clear to him either whether his experience was a daydream or a real experience. The bird that he heard was real, but his thoughts took off from that point on their own.
Gloria,
I also observed that about the authors. I think that it was just common for people to die at younger ages because thinks weren't like they are now. Well, mainly medicine and technology. Good Job!
The speaker goes in and out of dreams and reality in this poem. He feels sadness and joy as he ponders life and death. I think he is looking at his life and trying to find peace and comfort.
I have an authentic (1895) print of John Keats "Complete Poetical Works and Letters". The publisher is Thomas Y. Crowell.The binder is shot but the pages are intact. I would like to know the value of such an item.
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