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A 4 page paper which compares John Keats “Ode to a Nightingale” to William Wordsworth’s “Lines Composed a Few Miles Above Tintern Abbey.” Bibliography lists 5 sources.
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They were, in essence, perhaps very different sorts of individuals, but there was also something quite similar about their works or their attitudes towards life which would show up in
their poetry. The following paper looks for that similarity, a similarity that involves the nature of man at the darkest, or quietest, of times, as seen in Keats "Ode to
a Nightingale" and Wordsworths "Lines Composed a Few Miles Above Tintern Abbey." Keats and Wordsworth To begin with one author notes that Keats work spoke of "negative capability, that
is, when a man is capable of being in uncertainty, Mysteries, doubts, without an irritable reaching after fact and reason" (Romanticism: Wordsworth, Keats, Leopardi). This same author notes that Wordsworth
stated that poetry "takes its origin from emotion recollected in tranquillity: the emotion is contemplated till by a species of reaction the tranquillity gradually disappears, and an emotion, kindred to
that which was before the subject of contemplation, is gradually reproduced, and does itself actually exist in the mind" (Romanticism: Wordsworth, Keats, Leopardi In these two apparently different illustrations of
the great poets we see powerful similarities for when a man is still, whether it be in darkness or tranquility (which can obviously be a form of darkness wherein we
envision more positive feelings) a human being can better come into contact with their nature, their creative side, their truths without seeking solid facts or reasons. Darkness does not need
to symbolize death or depression but can represent a sort of silent location that is void of activity and light and emotion. This can also be the case with the
symbolic nature of tranquility. With this in mind we look at such elements as seen in the poems of the two men. One author notes that Wordsworths poem is
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