martes, 26 de agosto de 2008

Keat's sonnets

Keat's sonnets show us a contradiction of feelings, for example: " Till love and fame to nothingness to do sink" , " My spirit is too weak; mortality". Presenting different point of views about the life and the deth. Both sonnets talk about these two themes which are so complicated because they can produce a lot of emotions (frustation, happiness, distress, and so on), but all these emotions are naturally necessary in order to live our own life depending on our age. In effect, young people really do not care what the life and the deth mean, but older people become to ask themselves about these topics.

According to characteristics of Romanticism, I think that Keat expresses his thoughts about deth because is the only thing that men can not manupulate at all. In addition, the deth is a good demostration of FREEDOM because when a person dies his or her body and spirit are totally away from Earth's life, and also from all human beings' law and culture.

miércoles, 20 de agosto de 2008

Kubla Khan

Inside Kubla Khan, I could perceive a description of external natural and how all natural elements affect human affections throughout the poem for example: “The sacred river, ran through caverns measureless to man Down to a sunless sea". This poem shows us how natural can inspire people to think and create a lot of things in order to represent in words or in pictures their thoughts and feelings.

According to what kind of feelings a poem can produce in readers, when I read Kubla Khan I could imagine all things that the author describes because he presents a world like a parades where everything was made by God’s hands “and close your eyes with holy dread, for he on honey-dew hath fed, and drunk the milk of paradise”. Also, it was a moment when I read a verse where the author says “by woman wailing for her demon-lover!” I was able to feel and reproduce this image in my mind, and I felt so sad and depress because it is a cruel figure of woman who is falling in love with someone who is not a good person at all.

In conclusion, it is incredible how a poem produces in readers a lot of different kind of feelings like: happiness, sadness, annoyance, etc; at the same time. However, poems are also a good way to show and represent the authors’ point of views about how they see and perceive the world and all things that happened inside it during their life.