1. John Keats JOHNKEATSJOHNKEATS

2. When I have fears that I cease to be “teeming brain” = fertile imagination Line 4 = harvest metaphor Paradox = He is a field of grain to be harvested, and he is the harvester (the poet) Lines 5-8 = The world is full of material he could transform into poetry Lines 9-12 = Love: His beloved is short- lived just as, by implication, love is

3. The fears described in this sonnet are increasingly human, mortal, and intimate. Keats fears first that death may cut short the writing of his imagined “high-piled books”; then theat he may never trace the “shadows” of “huge cloudy symbols of a high romance”; and, finally, that he might not see his beloved again. In the couplet, love and fame sink to nothingness, but Keats confronts his fear and is deepened by the experience.

4. Keats is able to reach a resolution by achieving some distance from his own feelings and ordinary life. He thinks about human solitariness and human insignificance (The contrast between his lone self and the wide world). The shore is the threshold between two worlds or conditions, land and sea; so Keats is crossing a threshold, from his desire for fame and love to accepting their unimportance and ceasing to fear and yearn.

5. There is a subtle organization of Keats’s objects of regret. Comment on how one item seems to lead to the next and how their arrangement lends form and substance to the sonnet

6. Ode on a Grecian Urn

7. Tone Rapt expression of awe at its evocative and truth-bearing power and presence

8. Ode A relitavely long, serious, and usually meditative lyric poem that treats a noble or otherwise elevated subject in a dignified and calm manner.

9. This ode explores the human desire to escape the inevitable effects of living in a temporal world, expressing his desire in response to the permanence of an art object. The poem is a meditation on the continuing beauty of a painted vase from classical Greece and what it seems to communicate to man who knows that his time on earth is brief by comparison

10. Cold Pastoral! Has the speaker discovered, in essence, that even though the urn portrays the sensouous ideal of courtship and pursuit, it is still merely a cold form that, because it is deathless, can never feel the warmth of human life The urn beautifully exists beyond time (as the speaker had said in the first stanza), and cannot teach the meaning of living in time.