ENGL200B Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Elegy
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Not high-born looked down upon by journals and editors. Looking at things that are old and speechless and endowing them with speech romantics want to get into dialogue with everything. Keats likes to write in stanzas song-like, complex, beauty of sound. Unravished bride of quietness like a nun. Ekphrastic poem: poem of description, particularly of a work of art. Asking lots of questions about the stories on the urn. Paradox heard melodies are sweet, but those unheard are sweeter . A third level of ekphrastic-ness: poem about a piece of art. More elevated to not just listen to music, but to play directly to the spirit. Bold lover, never, never canst thou kiss a story about an elegy; people forever stuck in a tormenting situation. A very negative view of images and painting life frozen is not life. Regarded as his epitaph how he shaped his life.
