... dance with song, which together produce pleasure or otherwise noted in this poem as "mirth". During this stanza he is in his imaginary world. In the third stanza his awareness of the real world pulls him back from the imagined world of drink-joy that he was in. He feels that beauty cannot keep its lustrous ... the situation. He continues to sit in darkness in the fifth stanza, which makes the man rely on his, other senses. He speaks of the nightingale singing of summer, and the progression of the seasons. He might have chosen spring to summer to show a new beginning rather then fall to w...

• Word Count: 1640
• Approx Pages: 7
• Grade Level: High School

... echoed in the first line of Exposure': our brains ache, the merciless iced east winds . There is also the copying of Keats's contrasting inclusion of the sun in a poem that coveys the theme of numbness'. While Keats writes: Dance, and Provenzal song, and sunburnt mirth! O for a beaker full of warm South, (lines 13- ... 14) the lines in the seventh stanza of Exposure' read: Since we believe ... musings, save that at my side My cradled infant slumbers peacefully. Tis calm indeed .[sic] (lines 4-8). While, in Exposure , the frostiness of the setting simply means more discomfort for the alr...

• Word Count: 2437
• Approx Pages: 10
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School