John Keats

111 · #1 Tuesday, March 07, 2006

O Solitude! if I must with thee dwell,

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,
Its flowery slopes, its river’s crystal swell,
May seem a span; let me thy vigils keep
’Mongst boughs pavillion’d, where the deer’s swift leap
Startles the wild bee from the fox-glove 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 refin’d,
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.

111 · #2 Tuesday, March 07, 2006

Song - I had a dove

I HAD a dove and the sweet dove died;
And I have thought it died of grieving:
O, what could it grieve for? Its feet were tied,
With a silken thread of my own hand's weaving;
Sweet little red feet! why should you die -
Why should you leave me, sweet bird! why?
You liv'd alone in the forest-tree,
Why, pretty thing! would you not live with me?
I kiss'd you oft and gave you white peas;
Why not live sweetly, as in the green trees?

Waheed khattak · #3 Thursday, April 13, 2006

I also liked him very much but he is an escapist. Wat abt Robert Browning?

Muskan Ghuman · #4 Friday, April 14, 2006

Salam,

John Keats is not an escapist ....no doubt in his poems he tries to escape from the realities of life but in the end of poem again returns to the same reality...the person who can appreciate even Autumn in these words,

"Where are the songs of the spring?............
Think not of them, thou hast thy music too"
can not be an escapist...

Similarly in his "Ode to Nightingale "in 1st 8 stanzas he tries to escape from the reality of the world but in the last stanza again comes back to the real world....same is the case in "Ode To the Grecian Urn",in which he comes out of the fancy world of Urn with a great message"
Beauty is truth;truth beauty,--that is all
ye know on earth & all ye need to Know"
So we cant blame him that he is a escapist only...

Robert Browening no doubt good poet also...master of dramatic monologues...

with regards,
Muskan

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