This piece is about how John Keats personifies Death in his Odes
Death: Personified
The Romantic period is a time of emotional expression. John Keats uses this movement to convey his personal emotions regarding Death. Through his effective work choice, he paints an image. An image so strong it as though the reader is seeing it on a giant canvas. However, each person's interpretations may vary on some images, but the underlying symbolic representation of Death is apparent to all. He personifies Death in various selections, and creates the sense that why fight it, it our fate is sealed.
As all poets and writers convey events in their lives, Keats's is no different. One could safely assume that his own ailment of tuberculosis is the reason why he personifies Death so much in his works. "Ode on Melancholy" is an intense example:
She dwells with Beauty-Beauty that must die; and Joy whose had is ever at his lips Bidding adieu; and aching Pleasure nigh Turing to Poison while the bee-mouth sips; Aye in the very temple of Delight Veiled Melancholy has her sovereign shrine Though seen of one save him whose strenuous tongue Can burst Joy's grape against his palate fine; His soul shall taste the sadness of her might And be among her cloudy trophies hung (608).
In this selection, Death has been personified as a veiled woman, a beautiful woman, who seduces a man with poisonous grapes. When he bites into them, the juice bursts in his mouth, which causes him demise, and his soul, she claims. Keats's effective word choice conjures very vivid images, while giving Death a body and demonstrating her purpose. He continues to convey to the readers that no matter what we do, Death will happen to us all.
"Ode to a Nightingale" demonstrates the inevitability of death, and how one may even welcome it:
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