ENGL-2130 Lecture Notes - Lecture 22: Assonance, Pathetic Fallacy
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Didn"t actually see the region, but read about them. Bards fealty (loyalty) to apollo (god of song, poetry) Western islands (such as sicily) near italy. Keats is taking in all of chapman"s translation breathe its pure serene . Compares his astonishment to an astronomer discovering a new planet. Balboa error could have been an accident or put in on purpose to inject a theme of delayed discovery. Poem comes off as melancholy being a good thing. Stanza 1: gives warning and command, states melancholy. Stanza 3: personifies melancholy, puts it on a pedestal. Stanza2: uses pathetic fallacy (ex: weeping cloud, image of clouds covering green hill, glut thy sorrow dump your sorrow, expand it with something beautiful, theme: embrace bad parts to rise up.