Sea Fever 1) Who wrote the poem ‘Sea Fever’? Ans:- John Masefield wrote the poem ’Sea Fever’. 2) What was the favourite place of the poet? Ans:- To see the sea was the favourite place of the poet. 3) What do you mean by steer? Ans:- Steer means to control the direction of movement. 4) What was the colour of mist on the sea’s face? Ans:- The colour of the mist was grey. 5) What thing did not the poet deny? Ans:- The poet can not deny the call of running tide. 6) Write the name of Sea-bird? Ans:- Sea-gull is the name of a sea-bird. 7) Who wants to live a gypsy life? Ans:- The poet wants to become a gypsy life. 8) Write the name of the sea-animal? Ans:- Whale, a name of the sea-animal. 9) What do you mean by whetted knife? Ans:- Whetted knife means sharpened knife. 10) What kind of day does the poet prefer for siling? Ans:- The poet prefers va...
Consider Keats's concept of romanticism as you find in Ode to A Nightingale. Was Keats an Escapist?
The romantic of the romantics , the worsipper of beauty, the embodiment of sensuousness , the escapist by nature, John Keats in Ode to A Nightangale ,very nicely and masterfully blend the world of reality and the world of Nightingale. Most of his poems include the conflict between the real and ideal, the temporal and the eternal, the flux and the fixity . Among all of his Odes ,Ode to A Nightingale , is surely is the purest gem and poem that adds a colourful feathers to the crown of keats by drowning into the world of The nightingale. The romantic keats wants to escape from the earthly world but ultimately he is thrown back into the hard ground of reality.
Keats start of the poem with an aching sensation as if he was drunk hemlock or has empited some opium to the last drop to his mouth. The sensation is not by the result of envy on his part towards the bird but "being too happy in thy happiness..." . Then the Escapist starts seekng any and every medium to join the nightingale who "in some melodious plot ......singest of Summer in full throated ease". He selects the mediums of vintage not of any inferior quality but of a superior drinks that had been cooled in the deep-delved earth for long time.
Then he, as it sets off, on his journey, images to be faded dissolved with the bird for the bird is out of all earthly ".... weariness,the fever and the fret...." . In the earthly world death is everywhere ,palsy attacks the youth and young men die as he says
"where youth grows pale, spectre- thin and dies,
where to think is to be full of sorrow"
Soon the romantic shifts the medium from drinks to the "viewless wings of poesy". His perplex and dull brain is already with the Nightingale among a rich natural graces and delicacy. The description of nature is really very vital and full of life with the queen moon on her throne in a tender night.All these are nature poetry, the light has failed to illuminated the poetic heart ,full of death, despair and darkness in his words:" but here there is no light"
The sensuousness gets its like in the phrases -' verdurous glooms', soft incense', 'embalmed darkness' etc .The romantic sensuous Keats can feel the sweet perfumes of event darkness which is synthetic expression, even in the dark state he can visualise the flowers like white Hawthorne, pastel Eglantine, violets, musks ,Roses etc.
The poet who can write an entire Ode on a melancholy topic is surely in love with death. He says "......and for many a time/ I have been half in love with easeful death". He seeks to escape into the pastoral world of the Nightangale, filled with light, peace and comfort.As the bird is singing in it is most melodious voice , it is the most enjoyable moment for keats for this song can well be the "requiem" i.e. elegy to his death.The bird is not immortal but it's song , it is universal in time, place and person. Even Ruth, a mordible women listen to it and soothed her heart when she failed homesickness, so did a beautiful princess though captive, got comfort by the bird's song.
However the word 'forlorn' tells and takes him back from the pulpit of imagination to the stuck ground of reality .Fancy is nothing but a cheater for its power of soothing one is temporary not permanent. The bird's anthem starts fading, fading and fading.Keats is in a dilemma whether if it is a vision or a reverie. Like another romantic Charles Lamb who in his essay Dream Children :A Reverie is driven at last into the reality . Keats, too,is thrown back into the earthly world. The poem ends with a question:" was it a vision, or a waking dream;/ fled is that music."
Really useful one, compact yet packed with important points.Thank You very much for the effort to make the hard one looks so simple. Further, you can access this site to read Summary of the Poem "Ode to a Nightingale"
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