and dont i deserve the best?
im listning to beauty and the beast. yes. i know im a dork. you dont need to rub it in. livejournal made they event box so much bigger, and this makes me sad because it makes it feel like i havnt written that much. :( oh well. yeah. i finally finished my english paper. its under the cut code if you wish to read it.
Elizabeth House
Mr. Costello
English Poetry Paper
12 December 2003
Ode to a Nightingale
In John Keats’s poem Ode to a Nightingale, he uses his poetry to bring out romantic elements. The romantic elements that are portrayed in this poem are, glorification of emotion, revival of folklore, reverence for nature and an inclination to things “long ago and far away”. The emotion that is glorified is a sense of hopelessness. When reading this poem the reader is left wondering if this is existence and truth. “Was it a vision, or a waking dream? Fled is that music: -Do I wake or sleep?”
Folklore is a major part of this poem; in many of the beginning stanzas Keats has named some form of Roman deity or thing. Hippocrene is a fountain that Pegasus made when trying to limit the muses merriment. Flora is the goddess of flowers, she gave Juno the flower, which she touched to conceive mars without a father. Dryads and hamadryads are two types of wood nymphs in Greek mythology. These female nature spirits were thought to inhabit trees and forests, and they were especially fond of oak trees. Dryads were often depicted in myth and art accompanied - or being pursued by - their male counterparts, the satyr. In Greek and Roman mythology Bacchus was the God of Wine and Fertility.
Another romantic element used in this poem was a reverence for nature, besides the poem being an ode to a nightingale, he mentions the “deep-delved earth...leaves…The grass, the thicket, and the fruit-tree wild…Past up near meadows, over the still stream, up the hill side; and now ‘tis buried deep in the next valley-glades.” He also makes an inclination to things “long ago and far away” with the lines, “Fade far away” and “Away! Away! For I will fly to thee.”
The structure of this poem in metrical feel and lines would be described as anapestic trimeter. The rhyme scheme for this poem is ababcdecde.
A major theme in Keats’s poem is conflict, these conflicts being reality and dream. “Was it a vision, or a waking dream…Do I wake or sleep.” Another conflict in Ode to a Nightingale is, the nightingale itself seeming in some stanzas in a heightened state of reality, while in others seemingly drugging the person into a state of sublime.
Keats is called the poet, who unlike his peers is the poet of emotions, and it shows in this poem through his structure with many other romantic elements.
whoot yes. poems. are sooooo great.
today dan umm.... reemsnyder, yeah. him. (popular guy. usually i dont really like him that much but he can be nice) so i was knitting last period and he came up to me (passing across the senior area) and stopped and was like. is that a scarf( i had to take the earphones out of my ears and had him repeat the question) so he did and i was like. yep. so then he asks, you know how to do that? and i itched to be all sarcastic and say... why no. i dont know how to knit. ive just been wiggling these sticks here and the scarf made itself. but i didnt. i was all nice and like. yep and he was like. cool. and walked off. i paused, then laughed put my earphones in and returned to my knitting. until i saw gonzalo. i waved him over to me and told him about the peer couseling thing tomorrow and he said ok
then he asked me about my scarf and told me he thought it was cool. and that he used to knit. lol
gonzalo is so nice now. its hard to think that he was once the person who called me such vicious names and such, but oh well. thats in the past.
i guess im gone.
later
Elizabeth House
Mr. Costello
English Poetry Paper
12 December 2003
Ode to a Nightingale
In John Keats’s poem Ode to a Nightingale, he uses his poetry to bring out romantic elements. The romantic elements that are portrayed in this poem are, glorification of emotion, revival of folklore, reverence for nature and an inclination to things “long ago and far away”. The emotion that is glorified is a sense of hopelessness. When reading this poem the reader is left wondering if this is existence and truth. “Was it a vision, or a waking dream? Fled is that music: -Do I wake or sleep?”
Folklore is a major part of this poem; in many of the beginning stanzas Keats has named some form of Roman deity or thing. Hippocrene is a fountain that Pegasus made when trying to limit the muses merriment. Flora is the goddess of flowers, she gave Juno the flower, which she touched to conceive mars without a father. Dryads and hamadryads are two types of wood nymphs in Greek mythology. These female nature spirits were thought to inhabit trees and forests, and they were especially fond of oak trees. Dryads were often depicted in myth and art accompanied - or being pursued by - their male counterparts, the satyr. In Greek and Roman mythology Bacchus was the God of Wine and Fertility.
Another romantic element used in this poem was a reverence for nature, besides the poem being an ode to a nightingale, he mentions the “deep-delved earth...leaves…The grass, the thicket, and the fruit-tree wild…Past up near meadows, over the still stream, up the hill side; and now ‘tis buried deep in the next valley-glades.” He also makes an inclination to things “long ago and far away” with the lines, “Fade far away” and “Away! Away! For I will fly to thee.”
The structure of this poem in metrical feel and lines would be described as anapestic trimeter. The rhyme scheme for this poem is ababcdecde.
A major theme in Keats’s poem is conflict, these conflicts being reality and dream. “Was it a vision, or a waking dream…Do I wake or sleep.” Another conflict in Ode to a Nightingale is, the nightingale itself seeming in some stanzas in a heightened state of reality, while in others seemingly drugging the person into a state of sublime.
Keats is called the poet, who unlike his peers is the poet of emotions, and it shows in this poem through his structure with many other romantic elements.
whoot yes. poems. are sooooo great.
today dan umm.... reemsnyder, yeah. him. (popular guy. usually i dont really like him that much but he can be nice) so i was knitting last period and he came up to me (passing across the senior area) and stopped and was like. is that a scarf( i had to take the earphones out of my ears and had him repeat the question) so he did and i was like. yep. so then he asks, you know how to do that? and i itched to be all sarcastic and say... why no. i dont know how to knit. ive just been wiggling these sticks here and the scarf made itself. but i didnt. i was all nice and like. yep and he was like. cool. and walked off. i paused, then laughed put my earphones in and returned to my knitting. until i saw gonzalo. i waved him over to me and told him about the peer couseling thing tomorrow and he said ok
then he asked me about my scarf and told me he thought it was cool. and that he used to knit. lol
gonzalo is so nice now. its hard to think that he was once the person who called me such vicious names and such, but oh well. thats in the past.
i guess im gone.
later