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Question: What is your favorite Keats poem!? And why!?
I'm trying to get into more of his poetry but always end up back to Sleep and Poetry and When I Have Fears, cause they both are so universal!. i love his stuff!.!.!.so please, tell me!. :)Www@QuestionHome@Com


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My favorite is "Ode to a Grecian Urn!." I love this poem for so many reasons, but a key reason is that it so eloquently presents the tension between unchanging beauty (represented by the figures on the urn) and the transcient beauty we all experience in our daily lives!. Addressing the urn, the speaker observes that"When old age shall this generation waste, / Thou shalt remain!."

Beyond even this, it's about expectation & possibility vs!. fulfillment---implying that the former is often preferable!. Sometimes unfulfilled desires are better because it's something one can dream about; it's a goal worth striving for!. The speaker believes that "Heard melodies are sweet, but those unheard / Are sweeter!." The tree that is sculpted into the urn is beautiful to the speaker because it "cannot shed / !. !. !. [its] leaves, nor ever bid the Spring adieu!."

But those last few lines---well-quoted and so familiar to many---sum up the message that all beautiful objects have, regardless of when they were created:

" 'Beauty is truth, truth beauty,—that is all
Ye know on earth, and all ye need to know!.' "


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O Solitude! If I Must With Thee Dwell by John Keats

O Solitude! if I must with thee dwell,
Let it not be among the jumbled heap
Of murky buildings: climb with me the steep,—
Nature's observatory—whence the dell,
In flowery slopes, its river's crystal swell,
May seem a span; let me thy vigils keep
'Mongst boughs pavilioned, where the deer's swift leap
Startles the wild bee from the foxglove bell!.
But though I'll gladly trace these scenes with thee,
Yet the sweet converse of an innocent mind,
Whose words are images of thoughts refined,
Is my soul's pleasure; and it sure must be
Almost the highest bliss of human-kind,
When to thy haunts two kindred spirits flee!.

This is beyond description!. It's a work of art in words and it is one of my favs from John Keats!. It holds special meaning for me, personally!. That's what I like so much about Keats works, he had a way of crawling into your soul and warming your heart with dimensional triumphs!.Www@QuestionHome@Com

Ode To A Nightingale is a favorite!.
There are so many messages here - The voice I hear this passing night was heard in ancient days by emperor and clown!.

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