John Keats -- Analysis, Themes and Devices
Themes Appreciation of the Greeks Greek references Intertextuality: Chapman's Homer, Chaucer, Petrarch Love or die Immortality for love Knight Women as sorceresses Meta- art Yearning for immortality Lovers depicted on the Grecian urn: Bold Lover, never, never canst thou kiss, Though winning near the goal yet, do not grieve; She cannot fade, though thou hast not thy bliss, For ever wilt thou love, and she be fair! Reveling in nature God No one who once the glorious sun has seen, And all the clouds, and felt his bosom clean For his great Maker's presence, but must know What 'tis I mean, and feel his being glow Poetry as sacred O Poesy! for thee I hold my pen That am not yet a glorious denizen Of thy wide heaven – Should I rather kneel Upon some mountain-top until I feel A glowing splendour round about me hung, And echo back the voice of thine own tongue? Excitement about writing poetry; emotions toward poetry Keep Sleep aloof: but more than that there came Thought after th...