"O solitude ! if i must with thee dwell" Flashcards
keats
summary
through apopstrophe the speaker adresses solitude and that if he must live with it
he would rather be in a natural environment
however volta line 9
it would be even better if he could escape with somebody else
structure
pastoral idyll
romanticises rural life - agricultural life
context
living in london at the time as a surgical pupil
dirty rough unsanitary
keats = depression - wanting to leave
‘O Solitude! if I must with thee dwell’
vocative
! celebratory tone - reaching out to a deity
becomes a prayer
direct address to solitude
apostrophe
personified solitude
tone of praise and worship
“must” - permanance
“of murky buildings “
pollution
romantiscm against the industrial revolution
“jumpled heap “
negative connotations
city - overwhelming
untidy
“its flowery slopes , its river’s crystal swell”
allows him to see the expanse of nature
metaphor
contrasted with murky
“span”
contrasts with detailed focused images below
“where the dears swift leap startles the wild bee from the foxglove bell “
nature is coneccted
the grand big swift leap contasted with small bee
reinforced by rhyme
a small measure but imagination is magifying image of bee
“but though ill gladly trace these scenes with thee “
volta
ultimatley doesnt want to be alone
“trace” pictoral, recreative
