Ode on Melancholy

and emotions, and marked especially in English literature by sensibility and the use of autobiographical material, an exaltation of the primitive and the common man, an appreciation of external nature, an interest in the remote, a predilection for melancholy, and the use in poetry of older verse forms”(Webster) some of the greatest poets where Wordsworth, Keats, and Lord Byron. Such as I wandered lonely as a cloud, Ulysses, and She walks in beauty, are  all examples of of Romanticism.   Through history

in the natural order continues is stressed here. The fame of poppies that drowses the harvester and the 'twined flowers' that offer a resistance to the 'say the' cause a brief pause in time. This eagerness to prolong the moment of happiness - the ode stanza, extended to eleven lines, is give en a more prolonged effect and is also shared by autumn who watches the 'last oozing hours by hours' she is in time and bears the full load of agony inherent in process, but she is also above time watching the

Even today, man finds himself asking, "What is beautiful?" Many would point to nature when prompted with such a question; however, few realize that a similar question was posed and a similar answer given back in Romantic Great Britain, but to a whole new degree. British Romanticism was a reaction against technology as well as a cry to turn back to the beauty of nature, and its advocating troops held no more than a pen and paper in hand (Lorcher). Authors of the Romantic era used literature to

The Raven versus Ode to a Nightingale “The Raven” by Edgar Allan Poe is a story of a young adult who has lost the woman he was in love with and is struggling cope. The story-teller compulsorily builds self-destructive understanding of his mourning in a raven’s constant 'Nevermore ' reminder to him, until he eventually gives up about being reconnected with Lenore in the new world. On the other hand, John Keats’ “Ode to a Nightingale” is another interesting poem set in London, which tells the story

"Ode to the West Wind," Shelley invokes Zephyrus, the west wind, to free his "dead thoughts" and words, "as from an unextinguished hearth / Ashes and sparks" (63, 66-67), in order to prophesy a renaissance among humanity, "to quicken a new birth" (64). This ode, one of a few personal lyrics published with his great verse drama, "Prometheus Unbound," identifies Shelley with his heroic, tormented Titan. By stealing fire from heaven, Prometheus enabled humanity to found civilization. In punishment,

In A Philosophical Enquiry into the Origin of Our Ideas of the Sublime and Beautiful Edmund Burke writes, “It is the nature of grief to keep its object perpetually in its eye, to present it in its most pleasurable views, to repeat all the circumstances that attend to it”. Burke’s writing attempts to clarify the “pictorial, literary, cultural, economic and psychological” phenomenon of sublimity, explicating the ways in which power, vastness, obscurity and beauty intersect to form emotional response

tuberculosis. He suffered a hemorrhage of his lungs but recovered. It was during this time period, near the end of his life, that Keats created some of his best poetry which put him among the great English poets. He wrote, "Ode to Psyche," "Ode to Melancholy," "Ode on a Grecian Urn," "Ode on Indolence," "The Eve of St. Agnes," "Lamia," and what is considered by many to be his most perfect poem, "To Autumn" (Nylander). By 1820, Keats moved in with his friend, Leigh Hunt, after suffering a hemorrhage

heart-easing things” (2.67-68). Keats believed that friends are people who you can talk to and will always be there, which is embodied in this poem. Besides Sleep and Poetry, there are many other poems that have incorporations of friendship, such as in Ode on a Grecian Urn, in which he refers to the urn as “a friend to man.” Many of his poems that discuss the aspects of friendship. Keats’ friends were also major influences on his writing; he dedicated many of his works to them. After Keats discovered

still use his artistic talents to articulate his feelings for her. The early life tragedies of Keats caused him to declare his feelings on the fleetingness of life, happiness, and beauty. Keats is often known for writing his poetry in the romantic ode form. Literacy critic Jack Stillinger states why poets use the form: The poet, unhappy with the real world… attempts to escape into the ideal. Disappointed…, he returns to the real world. Usually he returns because human beings cannot live in the ideal

Lorny Decosma Period 2 5/10/17 Explication In the poem “I died for Beauty – but was scarce” by Dickinson, Dickinson writes about two people that have both just died for beauty and truth. One can hear the speakers’ melancholy tone throughout the poem because they are both dead. It is clear that the two people in the poem have died for something and are now laid beside each other. An interesting element that Dickinson uses is juxtaposition in stanza one “I died for Beauty – but was scarce”. Dickinson