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A 5 page paper which compares Keats’ “Ode on Indolence” to 5 other odes. The other odes are “Ode on a Grecian Urn,” “Ode on Melancholy,” “Ode to a Nightingale,” “Ode to Psyche,” and “To Autumn.” Bibliography lists 7 sources.
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at a particularly harsh time of his life, when he had already been stricken with the tuberculosis that would eventually kill him at a very early age" (Poole). Throughout the
Odes there is a sense of longing, pain, suffering, and a clear element of unrequited love that he yearned for (Poole). At the same time, there is also an element
of universality, wherein "Keats seems to be telling us that melancholy is an integral part of experience which must be accepted willingly as an inevitable element in life" (Poole). The
following paper first presents his Ode on Indolence and then presents 5 other Odes, comparing them to Ode on Indolence. The 5 Odes compared in the second section are "Ode
on a Grecian Urn," "Ode on Melancholy," "Ode to a Nightingale," "Ode to Psyche," and "To Autumn." Ode on Indolence This poem, as the titled suggests, is a
poem to the state of indolence. In this state the narrator is enjoying a sense of sluggishness and laziness where no powerful emotions or desires intervene in his world. However,
at the beginning he sees three figures which try to tempt and lure him into feeling and desiring. They arrived once, and "were strange to" the narrator for he was
immersed in his indolence (Keats 9). These figures appear to be figures he envisions on an urn, evasive yet real figures that urge him into awareness and action. They
came a second time and the narrator states, "The blissful cloud of summer-indolence/ Benumbd my eyes; my pulse grew less and less" indicating he was in no position to even
desiring any change, any action, any emotion or pain, for good or bad (Keats 16-17). But, these three figures returned to urge and perhaps torment him more, to bring him
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