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Criticism of Keats' Melancholy
After reading the title of John Keats’s “Ode on Melancholy,” I was immediately intrigued. I thought it odd to base a poem on the feeling of melancholy. The poem touched me and after I completed reading it, I felt depressed and sad. I feel that it was Keats’s choice and arrangement of words and lines that helped to draw me in and, thus, feel the particular emotion that the poem is all about, ....
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.... discussion of the structure, language, theme and imagery of the poem as a full four-stanza work”(19). Gaillard believes that the deleted first stanza’s inclusion is very vital to the symmetry and structure to the poem. He states,
“With stanza one’s omission the poem ‘s original symmetry
is destroyed, and we lose the effect of Keats’s careful balancing
of equal stanza pairs to embody negative and positive locations
and methods in the search of melancholy. Replacing the original
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