Showing posts with label John Keats. Show all posts
Showing posts with label John Keats. Show all posts

November 03, 2023

#08-355: Ode on a Grecian Urn

Tracing of an engraving of the Sosibios vase by Keats (Wikipedia)

Note: Some people are just--different. John Keats saw the world with fresh eyes, and left it at age 25, after creating such masterpieces as this poem.


Get Ready: Which is "truer": one's own experience of a thing or event (say, a mountain) or the lasting art produced of that thing or event (say, a painting of a mountain)? A woman, or the painting of her (say, the Mona Lisa)?


April 15, 2021

#08-071: La Belle Dame sans Merci

opulent painting of a woman seated in a garden-like setting, clutching a scarf around the neck of a man dressed as a knight, as they gaze into each others' eyes and seem about to kiss
La Belle Dame sans Merci
(Wikipedia)

Note: Read about John Keat's ghostly poem of a knight's love for a "faery's child," and the dire results it brought him.


Get Ready: Would you be willing to die for some "peak experience," whether romantic or otherwise?