ode on melancholy Flashcards
‘no, no no, go not to lethe’
river of forgetfulness
try not to forget sadness
‘nor suffer thy pale forehead to be kissed’
don’t escape sadness through death
‘from shade to shade will come too drowsily’
easy to go from a temporary lethargy to a permanent one
‘sudden from heaven like a weeping cloud’
temporal deixis
simile
melancholy is external to the individual
spring rains - pathetic fallacy - gives birth and life
‘droop headed flowers’
physical reaction to sadness
feeling sad is natural
‘hides the green hill in an april shroud’
sadness hides beautiful things
‘glut thy sorrow on a morning rose’
embrace sadness
natural beauties are temporary - easy to miss, small moment in time
‘rainbow’
duality
sun and rain
‘feed deep, deep upon her peerless eyes’
don’t try and solve sadness
embrace melancholy
beauty in sadness that can’t be found anywhere else
‘she dwells in beauty - beauty that must die’
wherever there’s beauty, there’s also sadness
‘joy, whose hand is ever at his lips’
always about to leave
‘aching pleasure’
oxymoron
there is pain in pleasure
‘turning to poison while the bee mouth sips:’
as joy is being felt, it is already leaving
pleasure disguised by pain
‘veil’d melancholy’
hidden sadness
‘can burst joy’s grape against his palate fine’
you’ll truly feel the essence of sadness
‘cloudy trophies hung’
elevated understanding of human nature when we accept that joy and sadness are dualities
structure
headlines
sadness is natural
we should embrace sadness
melancholy hides the positives in life
there is beauty in melancholy
only when we accept joy and sadness can we live a meaningful life
sadness is inevitable
to live freely and happily, we must accept the presence of sadness
