Musings On Keats

In my poetry class we have started learning about Keats. I am so excited about his poems. So far we have read two of his odes, Nightingale and Grecian Urn. What I love so much is the artistry:  things like his use of alliteration and consonance; metaphor; imagery; assonance; symbolism, etc. They’re like a super fun puzzle to solve, his poems. In our last class, Judy spent most of our class showing us cool things in Nightingale. It was like the most amazing thing ever to see how carefully constructed it is. 


That’s the greatest thing about poetry. If you think about it as the music of language, it’s easy to see it like a symphony. The words are all like different instruments, intertwined together to make it meaningful and beautiful. Shelley and Keats were master composers. I cannot get over how their poems are so complex underneath even seemingly simple words. 

This beauty makes my heart hurt in a good way.