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Poetry Of John Keats: 'Ode On Indolence'

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From: Monarch Notes
Date: 19630101
Author:Keats, John

Keats, John
Monarch Notes
01-01-1963
"Ode On Indolence":

The "Ode on Indolence" does not achieve the stature of the other odes,
perhaps because in it Keats prefers to strike an unconvincing pose rather than
to take a position which he cares deeply about defending. The poem is in the
first person and harks back to a letter the poet had written to his brother
George on March 19, describing his indolent state as one in which he was
relaxed "to such a happy degree that pleasure has no show of inticement and
pain no unbearable frown. Neither Poetry, nor Ambition, nor Love have any
alertness of ...

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