to solitude Flashcards
(15 cards)
to solitude publishing?
first poem Keats pubslihed in may 1816 and ublished it anomosuly under JK
to solitude context
keats wrote ‘to olitude’ shortly after keats joined Guys hosiptal as a sugrical pupil. This entailed a a move from edmonton to southwark. this area south of the thames in keats day as dirty, rough insantitarity and overcrowded. There was also lots of crime. To bcemome an apothecary keats would ahve to undergo 6 months attendance at the hospital. keats was clearly anxious about this prospect and expresses his depression and lomging to escape. Understanding his personal experinces helps us understand to desire to escape to the countrysuide and a yearning fir a indred spirit who he could share his life with.
keatsian paradox
for keats pleasure and pain, sorrow and happiness life and death are inexexytrically linked “do you not see how neccessary a Wold of Pains and troubles is to school an intellegnace and make ir a soul” .
summary of octave?
he is lonely in. the big city and yearns to be in the conyry side in the compnay of solitude
summary of sestet?
imagination and creativity form this world in his mind and his work
what is the structure of the poem?
petrachean ABBAABBA CDDCCDDC
meter
iambic pentometer
‘solitude’
the apostrophe and capaitlaisation emphasises isolation
“thee”
an archiac term used by lower classes or thpose that you known well-could link top his distaste for guys hospital. the use i so early on, links to the romantic idea of the self
“let it not be among the jumped heap of murky buildings”
phrase “murky buildings” among “jumpled heap” implies that he does not want to be lonely in the murky city. “jumbled heap” metaphor for his “jumpled” and chaotic thoughts but also his envorionment of southwalk London. keats feels solitary despite being in company,-keats would much rather be alone and solitary then with company and solitary
negative imagery and connotations embedded in the metaphor. he might be influenced by indisutrila revolution, romantics rovolt gfaisnt the insdutrsial revolution. cities are polluted by machinery.
“climb with me the steep-natures oberservatory”
hyphens nature so it seperate from everything as an isolated place, he uses the metaphor of climbing a monutain yo show how natures superior comapred to human industrail revolution” this is how the romantics felt about nature
“flowey slopes” “Deer swift leap” “wivers crystal swell” “startles the wild bee from the foxglove bell”
natural imagery then associated with verb-movement being alive?
the imagery of the ‘sole bee’ next to the ‘foxglove’, which is a plant reinforces this idea that humans must escape to nature.
“but though i’ll gladely trace these scenes with thee”
volta the connoations of the conjunction of “but” sugegest the cahnge in tone is a negative one however the adverb “gladly” juxtoposes our initial negative interpretations of the volta
‘sweet converse’
keatsian paradox
“almost the highets bliss of human-kind when to they haunts two kindred spirits flee”
the use of adverb “almsot’ suggests that he has still not reached the hight of bliss, room for improcement in humans. “bliss’ is a abstract noun-keats is still at one with the natural side of life and not with the ‘murky buildings” “earie’ and “huants’ contrasts to joyous solitude. “two kindred spirits may realte to keats relashionship with solitude. Might be forshwoing his upcoming relashionship with franny brawne this may be why he was so open to solitue because he knew love would find him.
