| John R. Strachan - 2003 - 218 pagine
...had drunk, Or emptied some dull opiate to the drains16 One minute past,17 and Lethe-wards18 had sunk: Tis not through envy of thy happy lot, But being too...happy in thine happiness, That thou, light-winged Dryad19 of the trees In some melodious plot 6 Modern Poetry and the Tradition, Chapel Hill, NC: University... | |
| Richard Hayman - 2003 - 300 pagine
...on suffering and the consolation of art through the bird in its greenwood habitat. The nightingale In some melodious plot Of beechen green, and shadows numberless, Singest of summer in full-throated ease.10 This is contrasted with the world of men where 'to think is to be full of sorrow'. The only... | |
| Geoffrey O'Brien, Billy Collins - 2007 - 778 pagine
...hemlock I had drunk, Or emptied some dull opiate to the drains One minute past, and Lethe-wards had sunk: 'Tis not through envy of thy happy lot, But being...numberless, Singest of summer in full-throated ease. O, for a draught of vintage! that hath been Cool'da long age in the deep -delved earth, Tasting of... | |
| Deborah Forbes - 2004 - 260 pagine
...the poem abruptly seeks an external reason for it in order to secure the speaker's flickering mind: Tis not through envy of thy happy lot, But being too...shadows numberless, Singest of summer in full-throated ease.19 But the state of mind in the first part of the stanza and the "light-winged Dryad" retrospectively... | |
| Shin'ichiro Ishikawa - 2004 - 408 pagine
...Lawrence's most influential precursors, writes in his famous poem, 'Ode to a Nightingale,' —""Pis not through envy of thy happy lot, / But being too happy in thine happiness—" (11. 5-6, Keats: Poetical Works 207). Criticising Keats, Lawrence writes, "Poor Keats, he has to be... | |
| C. C. Barfoot - 2006 - 504 pagine
...of place. But by the fifth and sixth lines, the reason for the vividly depressing images is clear: 'Tis not through envy of thy happy lot, But being too happy in thine happiness Far from being led to a melancholy emotion by the nightingale's song itself, it is the external appreciation... | |
| Diane Ravitch, Michael Ravitch - 2006 - 512 pagine
...hemlock I had drunk, Or emptied some dull opiate to the drains One minute past, and Lethe-wards had sunk: 'Tis not through envy of thy happy lot, But being too happy in thy happiness, — That thou, light-winged Dryad of the trees, 230 JOHN KEATS II O for a draught of... | |
| Nancy Bogen - 2007 - 426 pagine
...hemlock I had drunk, Or emptied some dull opiate to the drains One minute past, and Lethe-wards had sunk: Tis not through envy of thy happy lot, But being too...numberless, Singest of summer in full-throated ease. II O, for a draught of vintage! that hath been Cool'da long age in the deep-delved earth, Tasting of... | |
| Jean Aitchison - 2007 - 284 pagine
...set of topics only. In his 'Ode to a nightingale', the poet John Keats envies the nightingale: . . . thou, light-winged Dryad of the trees, In some melodious...shadows numberless, Singest of summer in full-throated ease.12 Yet birds are restricted in what they can warble about. Keats's nightingale was more likely... | |
| Jean Aitchison - 2007 - 213 pagine
...topics only. In his 'Ode to a nightingale', the poet John Keats envies the nightingale: . . . them, light-winged Dryad of the trees, In some melodious...shadows numberless, Singest of summer in full-throated ease.12 Yet birds are restricted in what they can warble about. Keats's nightingale was more likely... | |
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