Monday, September 1, 2008

"...more on Keats.."

In the sonnets written by Coleridge is easy to find characteristics of romanticism such as Imagination, Nature, Freedom, Pleasure and Death. The three first concepts are revealed in the following stanza:

“…When I behold, upon the night's starr'd face, Huge cloudy symbols of a high romance,And think that I may never live to trace Their shadows, with the magic hand of chance…”

Here, we can perceive the capacity that Coleridge has giving deep meanings to the nature. In this stanza we can deduced that he is talking about the constellations. Probably he had found more pictures in the sky that nobody else did. Moreover the faces of the stars, how he could see them, if at night you just can see the light that stars reflect. We strongly believe that Coleridge imagination is as huge as the infinite. Even more, the passion which ones Coleridge gives us the poems is marvelous because if you start to read his poems after you finish you cannot feel strange to them. It means that they make you react.

However, he is always mixing any theme with Death. We can understand his reasons when you know about his life and how much difficult it was to him. To live without his mother, to be working at the hospital dealing closest with death are passages that mark your life forever. And that’s why he always knitted his poems with these topics.

1 comment:

Claudia Trajtemberg said...

Hi Paulina,
Your interpretation in fact is about Keats´s sonnets, but you refer to Coleridge. I suppose this is a mistake. Could you please rewrite it to make it clear?
Cheers,
Claudia