Friday, January 3, 2003

Ode Comments

Rating: 3.3

Bards of Passion and of Mirth,
Ye have left your souls on earth!
Have ye souls in heaven too,
Double lived in regions new?
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John Keats
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Sylvia Frances Chan 30 June 2024

SIX: Keats's odes are rich with emotion and vivid imagery, inviting readers to ponder life, beauty, and mortality

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Sylvia Frances Chan 30 June 2024

FIVE: In poems like "Ode on a Grecian Urn, " he explores the idea that beautiful things—like the immortal figures on the urn—outlast mortal beings..

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Sylvia Frances Chan 30 June 2024

FOUR: Mortality and Death: Throughout his work, Keats contemplates death's inevitability.

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Sylvia Frances Chan 30 June 2024

THREE: Keats seeks refuge from life's struggles by immersing himself in the nightingale's world.

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Sylvia Frances Chan 30 June 2024

TWO: Escapism and the Imagination: "Ode to a Nightingale" also delves into escapism through the power of imagination.

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Sylvia Frances Chan 30 June 2024

ONE: Transience of Life and Beauty: In "Ode to a Nightingale, " Keats grapples with the impermanence of life and beauty. The nightingale's eternal song contrasts with our fleeting existence.

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Sylvia Frances Chan 08 March 2024

Keats died very young at the age of 26, tuberculosis was his sufferings through almost all of his poems Death was his main object, compared with Beauty.5 Stars!

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Sylvia Frances Chan 08 March 2024

LAST but not the least: Really very beautiful. I have other thoughts about Keats, but that would make my comment too too long

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Sylvia Frances Chan 08 March 2024

TWELVE: and find comfort in the timeless and beautiful aspects of existence. That's why Keats had become my most favorite poet since high school.

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Sylvia Frances Chan 08 March 2024

ELEVEN: So Keats's odes (they have a lot in common) explore mortality, beauty, and the human desire for permanence and meaning. They invite readers to reflect on the fleeting moments of life

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Sylvia Frances Chan 08 March 2024

TEN: The central theme is not just about nightingales, urns or seasons. Instead, it is the poet's eternal search for refuge in an ever-changing world.

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Sylvia Frances Chan 08 March 2024

NINE: Unlike mortal beings, beautiful things last forever and display their beauty forever. The eternal search for refuge, In his odes, Keats struggled with the dichotomy between the ideal world and realty within the order of experience.

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Sylvia Frances Chan 08 March 2024

EIGHT: such as urns ("Ode on a Grecian Urn") , books ("On First Looking into Chapman's Homer") , birds ("Ode to a Nightingale") and stars ("Bright star, I would be steadfast as you are."

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Sylvia Frances Chan 08 March 2024

SEVEN: Although we all die eventually, we can choose to spend our time alive, and immersed in aesthetic experiences.His speakers consider various beautiful objects and landscapes, !

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Sylvia Frances Chan 08 March 2024

SIX: The Contemplation of Beauty, Keats posited that contemplating beauty could postpone the inevitability of death.

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Sylvia Frances Chan 08 March 2024

FIVE: his poetic dreams of achieving greatness comparable to Shakespeare or John Milton.

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Sylvia Frances Chan 08 March 2024

FOUR: In poems like "On Seeing the Elgin Marbles, " he contemplated mortality through great beauty and art. His sonnet "When I have Fears that I may cease to be" expresses his fear that death might interrupt

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Sylvia Frances Chan 08 March 2024

THREE: Whether it is the end of a loved one's embrace, the images on an ancient urn, or the harvesting of grain in the fall, Keats saw these not only as symbols but also as actual instances of death

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Sylvia Frances Chan 08 March 2024

TWO: ODE? John Keats has written many ODES. Keats struggled with the concept of death throughout his work. The inevitability of death! He believed that small, gradual acts of death occurred daily, and he recorded these mortal events.

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Sylvia Frances Chan 08 March 2024

ONE: WOW! Keats again, his poem Ode as The Classic Poem Of The Day, Hooray! My most favourite poet!

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