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A 5 page paper which examines the poetry of
several individuals and discusses changes in European, as well as American thought. The
poets examined are Dickinson, Keats, Wordsworth, and Baudelaire. Bibliography lists 1
source.
Page Count:
5 pages (~225 words per page)
File: JR7_RAdckson.rtf
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to the colonists, much of the poetry was a reflection of domestic endeavors and of religious, Puritan, thought. As thought changed within the society, poetry reflected, as well as instigated
perhaps, the changes that took place as the society moved into a new period of thought. In the following paper we examine some of these conditions and realities in history.
The paper begins with an examination of Keats and his poem "Ode to a Grecian Urn" as it relates to Romanticism. The paper then discusses the poetry of Emily Dickinson
as it reflects Baudelaires thoughts regarding changes in poetry. The paper finishes with an examination of how Europes optimistic thought of the eighteenth century seemed to slowly change to one
of pessimism in the twentieth century, as is reflected in poetry and literature. Keats Ode to a Grecian Urn In Keats "Ode to a Grecian Urn" we have
what appears to be a relatively simple poem about a vase. It is a poem, like any other, that can be interpreted differently by any reader. In this particular readers
perspective the poem seems to clearly indicate that the historians of the time, and the people of the time, gaze upon such a vase and ask of what the pictures
speak: "Thou still unravishd bride of quietness, / Thou foster-child of silence and slow time,/ Sylvan historian, who canst thus express/ A flowery tale more sweetly than our rhyme:/ What
leaf-fringd legend haunts about thy shape/ Of deities or mortals, or of both,/ In Tempe or the dales of Arcady?/ What men or gods are these? What maidens loth?/ What
mad pursuit? What struggle to escape?/ pipes and timbrels? What wild ecstasy?" (Keats 1-10). The poem continues, elaborating on the possibilities presented within the images portrayed on the vase. In
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