John Keats

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cows making low deep sounds

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lowing

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Elizabethan playwright and poet well know for his translations of the Illiad and the Odyssey

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George Chapman

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collected gradually bit by bit

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gleaned

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a rustic; one who lives in the forest

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Sylvan historian

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storehouses; granaries

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garners

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deserted; dismal

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desolate

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literary and cultural realms

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realms of gold

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branches; limbs of trees

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boughs

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a lyric poem in the form of an address to a particular subject, usually praising it, often elevated in style or manner and written in varied or irregular meter

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ode

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overflowing; filled fully

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teeming

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region or domain

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demesne

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the Italian word for “turn.” In a sonnet, the turn of thought or turn in the argument.

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volta

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a fortress high upon a hill that serves as protection for a city

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citadel

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excessively sweetened with sentiment

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cloyed

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a beautiful valley in Greece sacred to Apollo that has become a symbol of rustic beauty

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Tempe

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“Hold like rich garners the full-ripen’d grain”

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alliteration

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the scenes on the urn

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deities and mortals; a mad pursuit, a struggle to escape; pipes and timbrels; wild ecstasy; a young person chasing his lover amidst a setting of trees and piping musicians

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Keats’s encouragement to the lover

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“She cannot fade, though thou hast not thy bliss,

For ever wilt thou love, and she be fair!”

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why the lover is grieving

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because he cannot catch up to her

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Keats fears that he will die before he can express in writing all that he has in his mind and imagination.

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“Before my pen has glean’d my teeming brain”

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“Beauty is truth …”

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truth beauty”

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This poem turned out to be ominously prophetic for Keats.

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“when I Have Fears That I May Cease to Be”

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places Keats has traveled in his readings of Homer

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realms of gold; goodly states and kingdoms

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Keats’s closing imagery of famous explorations and discoveries

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Cortez, the Pacific, Darien

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“When I behold, upon the night’s starr’d face,
Huge cloudy symbols of high romance,
And think that I may never live to trace
Their shadows …”

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Keats beholds the mysterious expanse of the world and nature (and their underlying truths and meanings), and wishes he would be around long enough to write about it.