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On Seeing the Elgin Marbles (34)
- The Hellenistic Ideal
- The Romantics often viewed
this period as the cultural ideal
- The Romantics often viewed
this period as the cultural ideal
- Appreciation of Beauty
- 'Such dim-conceived glories of the brain, bring round the heart
an indescribable feud; so do these wonders a most dizzy pain
that mingles Grecian grandeur with the rude wasting of old
Time'
- The Beauty of the Marbles create a
conflict within Keats, he is grappling
with how something can be so beautiful
and so eternal - 'rude wasting of old
time' relays that he understands time
will ruin them at a point but they will
outlive human life
- Time wastes away, causes damage and therefore suffering.
- Time wastes away, causes damage and therefore suffering.
- Impermeance of the human soul
- The Beauty of the Marbles create a
conflict within Keats, he is grappling
with how something can be so beautiful
and so eternal - 'rude wasting of old
time' relays that he understands time
will ruin them at a point but they will
outlive human life
- Keats mixes nature with manmade beauty to show true appreciation
- 'With a billowy wave - a sun'
- Nature is absolutely permanent, the
final thought in the poem
- Nature is absolutely permanent, the
final thought in the poem
- 'With a billowy wave - a sun'
- 'Such dim-conceived glories of the brain, bring round the heart
an indescribable feud; so do these wonders a most dizzy pain
that mingles Grecian grandeur with the rude wasting of old
Time'
- Mortality
- My spirit is too weak - mortality weighs heavily on me like unwilling sleep
- The soul, physically and emotionally weakened by the beauty of the marbles
- 'Unwilling sleep' - connotations of
death & the inevitability of it, humans
cannot prevent sleep just like we
cannot prevent death - the Marbles
outlive humans therefore they have
more worth
- Irony: Sleep is
restorative
therefore why
would it be
unwilling
- Or unwilling as in it will not come
- Irony: Sleep is
restorative
therefore why
would it be
unwilling
- 'Unwilling sleep' - connotations of
death & the inevitability of it, humans
cannot prevent sleep just like we
cannot prevent death - the Marbles
outlive humans therefore they have
more worth
- The soul, physically and emotionally weakened by the beauty of the marbles
- 'Like a sick eagle looking at the sky'
- Simile: longing and escapism - typical of the
Romantics. The image of freedom being
denied; extremely sad, especially as Eagles
are symbols of strength it makes the sickness
almost seem inadequate
- Image provokes a contradiction and
therefore somewhat of a conflict - which
is mirrored in 'an indescribable feud'
- The Eagle is longing - does the Speaker long for death?
- Simile: longing and escapism - typical of the
Romantics. The image of freedom being
denied; extremely sad, especially as Eagles
are symbols of strength it makes the sickness
almost seem inadequate
- My spirit is too weak - mortality weighs heavily on me like unwilling sleep
- Context: The Elgin Marbles are from
the Parthenon, they were brought
to England by Lord Elgin and
purchased by the Government
- PETRARCHAN SONNET
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