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Haydon had been one of the most passionate advocates for the purchase of the marbles for the nation.
John keats elgin marbles poem. The longman anthology of poetry palgrave 2006. The sonnet on seeing the elgin marbles tells the reader how john keats struggles with mortality and that struggle brought this sonnet to express that accepting fate exceeds denying an inevitable death. He states how he knows that his mortality means that one day he must die. In this poem keats begins with lush natural description although his purpose is wordsworthian to write poetry inspired by nature that will rise to myth.
On seeing the elgin marbles john keats 1795 1821 my spirit is too weak mortality weighs heavily on me like unwilling sleep and each imagined pinnacle and steep of godlike hardship tells me i must die like a sick eagle looking at the sky. Find poems find poets poem a day library texts books more materials for teachers poetry near you to haydon with a sonnet written on seeing the elgin marbles john keats 1795 1821. He wrote this sonnet the same evening. For what has made the sage or poet write but the fair paradise of nature s light.
They are glories of the brain that have endured through time yet even they are subject to the wasting effects of time displacement and decay. Keats wrote a sonnet in 1816 entitled on seeing the elgin marbles in which the young fragile poet s own mortality is contrasted with each imagined pinnacle and steep of godlike hardship the. Lord elgin made an expedition to the parthenon in greece returning with a significant number of marble statues and friezes which he subsequently sold to the british museum in 1816. The poem is a reflection on the pleasures and the pains of human creativity.
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