Apollonius wrote:I would reject all religious interpretations. Didn't Keats himself dismiss religion as "vulgar superstition"?
Scrib wrote: it's still beautiful and it will last much longer than any of us will.
Black Fire wrote:I got a different meaning from this poem. I focused on Keats biography. This poem was written when he was on his voyage to Italy. The voyage where he was making an attempt about get out of his sickness, going to Italy to get the fresher air to help him. Anyways in lines 5 and 6 "The moving waters at their priestlike task Of pure ablution round earth's human shores," on the ship he is traveling on he is hoping that the trip would cure him, with the priestlike task, task of healing. In lines 10 and 11 " pillow'd upon my fair love's ripening breast, To feel for ever its soft fall and swell," from his biography also it was said that once his ship reached ital he was not allowed off the ship for a week or two after, so pillow'd I saw as imagery as in holding him back, and "to feel for ever its soft fall and swell", the sea's tides going up and down is what he feels, and too him those days of waiting would have felt like forever with being stuck on the ship. The theme I came up with this poem was a Journey of dying hope, because in the beginning of the poem he was being optimistic with the voyage, yet at the end he wasn't having such a great feeling of any hope.
Scrib wrote:Instead I think Keats is trying to let it through in our minds that repeatedly the Earth goes through it's stages, spring, summer, winter, fall, and even though it's the same stages over and over again, it's still beautiful and it will last much longer than any of us will.
Apollo wrote:
I'm afraid that I can't see where you are getting some of that. I can understand you pulling something from the few lines that even mention earth and/or it's features; but I believe it is a stretch to say that Keats is talking about the season changing. Tell me were you got the changing seasons if you would?
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