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Poems
Title: Poems
Category: Literature / English
Details: Words: 564 | Pages: 2.4 (approximately 235 words/page)
Poems
from 'Poems', 1817
This is easily one of the two most beautifully evocative poems I've ever
read, the other one being Coleridge's 'Kublai Khan' . It's no
coincidence that both poems were written within a few years of each
other, by poets who would come to symbolize their time: the Romantic
Revolution of the early 18th century occasioned a paradigm shift in the
theory of poetic expression, and the Romantic poets (Byron, Shelley,
Keats, Coleridge and Wordsworth, …showed first 75 words of 564 total…
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…showed last 75 words of 564 total…later, when
I discovered the wonderful free-verse translation by Robert Fitzgerald,
that I first came to breathe the pure serene of Homer's original. Then felt
I like some watcher of the skies when a new planet swims into his ken...on
first looking into Fitzgerald's Homer.
One detail worth pointing out in Keats's sonnet is "deep-browed Homer"--a
Homeresque epithet in itself, like "grey-eyed Athena" or "ox-eyed Hera" or
"rosy-fingered dawn" or "the wine-dark sea."
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