Sonnet why did i laugh tonight

The Eve of St. The Human Seasons. To Ailsa Rock. To Autumn. To Charles Cowden Clarke. To Fanny. To George Felton Mathew. To Haydon. To Homer. To Hope. To John Hamilton Reynolds. To Kosciusko. To Leight Hunt, Esq. To My Brother George. And the world's gaudy ensigns see in shreds; Verse, Fame, and Beauty are intense indeed, But Death intenser -Death is Life's high meed.

These two lines display the idea of relishing in what is important in life. Also involves romantic imagery the idea of drinking in Beauty and Nature or even life. It also can be seen as Keats revelation and the answer to the question that he put forward in the beginning. When asking the rhetorical question Keats is trying to follow the trajectory of the human condition which is the mind possessing the knowledge that we are going to die and the heart trying to deny this knowledge and reject it.

Within the poem the conflict between the heart and mind over death is explored. There are many poems out there by the same author with the same piece that have different titles. Edgar Allen Poe was one who did this at a constant because he never considered even after he published his work, that his work was finish.

So, he would re-write them after they were published and publish the same poem written differently with the same name or a different name. Other poets have done the same thing. I know Shakespeare has about 20 poems with the same name called The Madrigal but they are all different, and so for people to tell them 'from each other' they would name them different names, so they could tell them a part tho the original name is The Madrigal of all the pieces.

Now, to the poem. I don't believe I've ever read a piece by Keats where I can honestly state there are errors, or they are flawed etc, I am sure there is one out there, but, this one is not it. John Keats Follow John Keats [], was one of the greatest English poets and a major figure in the Romantic movement. Although he had a very brief life he wrote much and influenced many.

Not surprisingly, the third quatrain returns exclusively to iambic pentameter, a resemblance to the first quatrain, which represents, again, a confident calmness in the verse, especially since now the truth has been uncovered: "I know this being's lease.

Nevertheless, Keats announces the unimaginable possibility of death or the end of the world: "And the world's gaudy ensigns see in shreds. The thirteenth line switches to trochaic meter and utilizes another spondee to stress "Verse" and "fame.

Familiarly, a caesura is placed in the middle of line fourteen to set off the closing words, the moral of the sonnet. No voice will tell" follows the trajectory of the internal dilemma of the human condition: every man must encounter the grotesque beauty of his fate in both the Heart and the Mind.

Even though the Mind knows that it will die one day, it is the Heart that often beats a vicious and foolish refusal to believe it. There then arises the potential for man to become incresingly furious in an attempt to deny his mortality, but Keats approaches the frightening subject with graceful zest.

Yet, why did he laugh? Keats laughed because he is alive! To be able to laugh in the ominous face of death is to also laugh [note: split infinitive] at the absurdity of the world, reminding Man that the ultimate purpose of life is to live.