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Although the poem contains no overt sexual references, allegations of a hidden sexuality in the poem's text appear in Christopher John Murray's Encyclopedia of the Romantic Era. Murray suggests that the poem instructs the reader to approach melancholy in a manner that will result in the most pleasurable outcome for the reader. [11]
The poem describes the narrator's opinions on melancholy and is addressed specifically to the reader, unlike the narrative of many of the other odes. [10] The lyric nature of the poem allows the poet to describe the onset of melancholy and then provides the reader with different methods of dealing with the emotions involved.
The poem is another of Kendall's poems about melancholy aspects of Australian bush life. The poem describes the lonely death of a shepherd in the bush, alone except for his patient wife. After word of the man's death spreads people start arriving "to see their neighbour and to bury him."
The Nightingale: A Conversation Poem is a poem written by Samuel Taylor Coleridge in April 1798. Originally included in the first edition of Lyrical Ballads, which he published with William Wordsworth, the poem disputes the traditional idea that nightingales are connected to the idea of melancholy.
The Pleasures of Melancholy. Observations on the Faerie Queene of Spenser. 1754. The Oxford Sausage. 1764. – an anthology of verse and Oxford wit; Inquiry into the Authenticity of the Rowley Poems. 1770. History of English Poetry. 1774–1781. The History and Antiquities of Kiddington. 1782.
In particular, Il Penseroso celebrates Melancholy through the traditional Theocritan pastoral model. The setting focuses on a Gothic scene and emphasises a solitary scholarly life. The speaker of the poem invokes a melancholic mood main character wanders through an urban environment and the descriptions are reminiscent of medieval settings.
Romantic poetry is the poetry of the Romantic era, an artistic, literary, musical and intellectual movement that originated in Europe towards the end of the 18th century. It involved a reaction against prevailing Enlightenment ideas of the 18th century, [ 1 ] and lasted approximately from 1800 to 1850.
A.C. Swinburne placed it with "Ode on a Grecian Urn" as "the nearest to absolute perfection" of Keats's odes; Aileen Ward declared it "Keats's most perfect and untroubled poem"; and Douglas Bush has stated that the poem is "flawless in structure, texture, tone, and rhythm"; [53] Walter Evert, in 1965, stated that "To Autumn" is "the only ...