... freedom from oppression. His continual wish of death reveals his recurring outlook on life, as he seems to be unsatisfied with his life. He longs to escape the anxieties and troubles of his life during this present age and time. He uses his imagination to join the nightingale in the darkness of the forest where the moonlight can hardly reach. He cannot see ... anything around him in the forest he can only smell the flowers and plants. "No more than ever seems it rich to die, To cease upon ... impossible to exclude altogether the motif of love from his work "(Wentersdorf). His poem, "Od...

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... no body knows the answer. The poet asks second time "why did I laugh?" (6). This tells he does not receive the answer but he feels strong negative emotions, "O mortal pain!/ O darkness! Darkness! Ever must I moan," (6, 7). He asks the third time "Why did I laugh?" (9), then he responds to himself that "I know this Being's lease, (9). This shows he finally finds his impending ... death. A couplet concludes three quatrains. The conclusion is that the poet realizes death goes far beyond poems, fame, and beauty. In addition, the poem uses both iambic pentameter, "My fancy to its utmost blis...

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... men sit and hear each other groan" (24), where there is so much suffering and hardship. The misery and sorrow that he feels is emphasized further by the theme of darkness, night, and shadows that is carried throughout the poem. He says, "here there is no light, / Save what from heaven is" (38-39). On earth all he sees is the ... and has difficulty believing that such a horrible existence could ever be beautiful in any way. However, the speaker ultimately realizes that there is, in fact, tremendous beauty within the world, as well as darkness. He compares this reality to the changing of ...

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... growth. The morning setting parallels with early autumn and the images create a sense of freshness, abundance, as well as the anticipation of harvest. In the second stanza, the poet personifies autumn and uses visual imagery, "sitting careless on a granary floor,//thy hair soft-lifted by the winnowing wind ... coming winter, as well as appreciation for its "music" or beauty. As evening is upon, the reader feels a sense of accomplishment and an ending. Also, auditory imagery is appropriate for nighttime when hearing is intensified in the darkness. Imagery and time of day in the poem take t...

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... 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 winter, which would incur death and decay. Yet in stanza six the man begins to ... distance himself from the nightingale and yearns for death instead which he imagines only as joyful, pain-free, and a way to merge with the birds song. At the end of this ... willing to work just about anywhere. He went to the N...

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... has through his poetry. This particular feeling constantly reminds me of the fact that Keats is awaiting his death, and so even though the poem in its self isn't entirely depressing, the context in which it was written ads new dimension to its meaning, more darkness and despair. The language he uses to describe the Nightingale could lead the reader to believe that he ... subtly than the others The supernatural feel that this particular poem has is unique, and to many other poets like Blake and Wordsworth the concept was unexplored. Reading this poem for the first time, I found two ways ...

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... to inspire the reader to greater understanding of his works. "La Belle Dame Sans Merci" may be considered one of the most successful ballads in the language since the popular border ballads of the later middle ages and further emphasises his subtle teaching ability. The points of interest raised throughout ... like Leigh Hunt, Percy B. Shelley and Benjamin Robert Haydon. However after receiving negative feedback, Keats decided to head to the Isle of Wight alone in the spring of 1817. He took care of brother until the first signs of his own fatal disease of his own fatal disease forced h...

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... "Autumn's breath." This can be seen as a cleansing, breath, is like breathing new life in a sense of clearing away the old. Ode to the West Wind starts off with death and turns into something beautiful. He begins with fall and winter, seasons referred to dying and being ... dead. Winter is a season of things being dead however it is a cleansing period were the cold kills bacteria and germs. Shelly is writing about writer's block and hope that the winds of change will bring him inspiration. For ... creative process. Keats' writes about nature in a different light. In "To Autumn" he give...

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