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22 Jan 03 - 02:32 AM (#872023) Subject: Ode to melancholy by John Keats From: GUEST,Jim Clark..London..England Melancholy must have been something the tragicaly short lived John Keats must have known from considerable experience....So perhaps it is fitting that he should have written this poem about this facet of the human condition..Heres the link to the page with the sound file.. Ode to melancholy by John Keats 1795 - 1821 (sound poem set to music) Regards. Jim Clark PS..Dont forget you can if you prefer listen to my sound poems at my Yahoo "sound poetry" web group (look in "files") heres that link Sound poetry Yahoo group All rights are reserved on this sound recording/copyright/patent Jim Clark 2002 Ode on Melancholy No, no, go not to Lethe, neither twist Wolf's-bane, tight-rooted, for its poisonous wine; Nor suffer thy pale forehead to be kiss'd By nightshade, ruby grape of Proserpine; Make not your rosary of yew-berries, Nor let the beetle, nor the death-moth be Your mournful Psyche, nor the downy owl A partner in your sorrow's mysteries; For shade to shade will come too drowsily, And drown the wakeful anguish of the soul. But when the melancholy fit shall fall Sudden from heaven like a weeping cloud, That fosters the droop-headed flowers all, And hides the green hill in an April shroud; Then glut thy sorrow on a morning rose, Or on the rainbow of the salt sand-wave, Or on the wealth of globed peonies; Or if thy mistress some rich anger shows, Emprison her soft hand, and let her rave, And feed deep, deep upon her peerless eyes. She dwells with Beauty--Beauty that must die; And Joy, whose hand is ever at his lips Bidding adieu; and aching Pleasure nigh, Turning to poison while the bee-mouth sips: Ay, in the very temple of Delight Veil'd Melancholy has her sovran shrine, Though seen of none save him whose strenuous tongue Can burst Joy's grape against his palate fine; His soul shalt taste the sadness of her might, And be among her cloudy trophies hung. |
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22 Jan 03 - 08:43 PM (#872482) Subject: RE: Ode to melancholy by John Keats From: mack/misophist Melancholy has a slightly different meaning in classical poetry. Thoughtful, or even quiet will do. |
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22 Jan 03 - 09:04 PM (#872501) Subject: RE: Ode to melancholy by John Keats From: Peter T. I am not sure which classical poetry you are referring to, but the classical definition of melancholy (melancholus, in fact) is associated with black bile and the serious glooms (for example, in Cicero). yours, Peter T. |
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22 Jan 03 - 09:34 PM (#872525) Subject: RE: Ode to melancholy by John Keats From: GUEST,Q For long, sleepless, winter nights, read the "Anatomy of Melancholy," by Robert Burton. Written in the 17th century, it still holds interest. |
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23 Jan 03 - 01:06 AM (#872604) Subject: RE: Ode to melancholy by John Keats From: GUEST,Jim Clark..London..England I think serious glooms will do.....its what most of us mean by the word.. |
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24 Jan 03 - 12:37 AM (#873532) Subject: RE: Ode to melancholy by John Keats From: mack/misophist My definition of melancholy came from a footnote in Milton's Il Penseroso. |
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24 Jan 03 - 09:52 AM (#873756) Subject: RE: Ode to melancholy by John Keats From: GUEST,Jim Clark..London..England I think this poem makes very clear its own interpretaion of this word.. |