Tuesday, December 11, 2007

Great Regulars: But he employs a rhetorical question

to assert that people do not face loss with equanimity. Instead, they "writhe" "at passed joy."

He then makes an odd claim: he says that no poetry has been written about what it is like "To know the change and feel it,/When there is none to heal it,/Nor numbed sense to steal it."

from Linda Sue Grimes: Suite101.com: Keats in Winter

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Because of his great talent, the speaker knows he is not "lame, poor, nor despis'd." In the "shadow" of his creations, he can live abundantly. He is "suffic'd" by the glory of is works, but he claims only a part of that glory, giving much credit to the mystery that is talent.

from Linda Sue Grimes: Suite101.com: Shakespeare Sonnet 37

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