Assignment of paper 5
Name :Gediya Disha Vijaybhai
Class :sem 2
Paper no:5
Subject: John Keats use of myth in his ode.
Roll no:9
Email
:dishagediya11@gmail.com
Submitted to: Department of
English Maharaja krishna kumar
sinhji Bhavnagar University
Words:2,261
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John Keats use of myth in his ode.
About John Keats:
Keats was born in Moorgate, London, on 31 October 1795 to Thomas Keats and his wife, born Frances Jennings. There is little evidence of his exact birth place. Although Keats and his family seem to have marked his birthday on 29 October, baptism records give the date as the 31st. He was the eldest of four surviving children; another son was lost in infancy. His father first worked as a hostler at the stables attached to the Swan and Hoop Inn, an establishment he later managed, and where the growing family lived for some years. Keats believed that he was born at the inn, a birthplace of humble origins, but there is no evidence to support his belief. He died 23 February 1821 in Rome.
Keats use of myth:
Ode to Grecian urn
Ode to Grecian urn was written by John Keats. In this odd he uses urn for giving example of his feelings. In this ode he use myth in it .
He talked about unravish bride as urn because urn has not any kind of change. Silence and time adopt urn. It is time of change. Urn is kind if silven historians who lives in border of flowers.
People are in urns painting and it’s bound by leaf's border. Arcady is place which near to nature . Temple is pond and arcady seating on it poet ask here to urn and imagine that this man escape from struggle. In this picture someone plays flute and timbrels .
Lover and beloved seat under the tree. Lover plays flute and beloved listen it. They are with together but still away from each other . They are there like they were. They cannot move and touch each other. It is only a picture which is in urn .poet explain urn that not to be disappointed by it because their love still forever.
In season of spring in painting there have no changes. Group of people going to sacrifice if heifer in it. It is preparing like garland. An attic shape urn made up of marble. In this beauty is truth and truth is beauty shown by Keats. This urn will remain forever.
Myth of Prometheus:
Many years ago, according to the stories told by the people of ancient Greece, there lived two brothers who were not like either men or like the gods and goddesses of Mount Olympus. They were the sons of one of the Titans who had fought against Zeus and been sent in chains to the prison of the lover world. The name of the elder of this brother was Prometheus (which means forethought). Prometheus was always thinking of the future and making things ready for what might happen tomorrow or next week or next year, or even in a hundred years time. The younger was called Epimetheus (which means after thought). Epimetheus was always so busy thinker of yesterday or past year, or a hundred years ago that he never worried at all about what might come to pass in the future. Prometheus did not want to live amongst the clouds on Mount Olympus. He was too busy for that while the God was spending their time in emeses drinking nectar and eating ambrosia. He was planning how to the world wiser and better than it had been before so unsteady of living on Olympus. Prometheus went out amongst mess to live with them and he quickly noticed that they were no longer happy as they had been during the golden days when Kronos, the Titan was king. He found them living is caves and in holes of the earth, shivering with the cold because there was no fire, dying of starvation, hunted by wild beasts and by one another the most miserable of all living creature. If they only had fire, said Prometheus to him they could learn to make tools and build themselves houses without fire, they worse off than the beast. Prometheus went to Zeus and begged him to give fire to people, so that so they might have a little comfort through the long, dreary Mont of winter. Prometheus didn't answer but his heart on helping mankind and he did not give up. As he walking by the seashore he found a fall stalk of fennel. He broke off and then saw that its hollow center was filled with a dry soft substance which would burn slowly and stay alight for a long time. He carried the stalk with him as he began a long journey to the top of mount Olympus. Mankind shall have fire despite what Zeus has decided he said to himself. And with that thought he snuck quietly into Zeus domain and stole a spark from Zeus own lightning bolt. Prometheus touched the end of the long speed to the spark and the dry substance within it caught on fire and burned slowly. Prometheus hurried back to his own land carrying with him .The precious spark hidden in the hollow center of the plant. When he reached home he called some of the shivering people from them caves and built a fire for them and showed them how to warm themselves by it and use it to cook their food. Men and women gathered round the fire and happy and thankful to Prometheus for the wonderful gift which he had brought to them. One chilly winter evening Zeus gazed down from Mount Olympus and noticed fires burning cheerfully at the heaths of men and women in every village across the land. It did not take him long to realize Prometheus has disobeyed him and give fire to men. Zeus was very angry and order that Prometheus be changed to the side of a mountain to suffer there for all eternity. And there Prometheus stayed thinking of the future happy in the knowledge that he had given fire to men until he was one day rescued by the mortal, which is a story for another day.
Ode to psyche:
Psyche is daughter if king and most beautiful girl . In this ode Keats address psyche that to pardon him for sung this song. He also sees her . He wanders her in forest and found two creatures. Near by them there was booklet. There had many of flowers of many colours. So many flowers are spread as bed. Their lips not meets with each other but not also departed . They leave that place .poet calling psyche as a dove.
Now poet appreciate her and compare her with phoebe 's sapphire regoin'd stat. She was too much white. In there that is not temple of her. In night bachelor girls were not singing song not to worship for her. He called her as o brightest . He changed his tone and do be her priest. He had not any capacity to do the temple but he says that let him to do something. He told her that he will sing a song for her, play pipe for her etc.
He will prepare a rosy sanctuary. This man has all imagination so he will make a Gardener for fancy of that rosy garden.
Myth of psyche:
Cupid and Psyche is a story from the Latin novel Metamorphoses, also known as the Golden Ass, written in the second century AD by Apuleius. It concerns the overcoming of obstacles to the love between Psyche and Cupid or Amor and their ultimate union in marriage.
Psyche is a former mortal woman and goddess of the soul in Greek mythology. She is the wife of Eros (Cupid) and the mother of Hedone. She is always pictured with butterfly wings.
Once upon a time, there was a beautiful princess, admired by everyone, but whom no one dared to proposed to. Desperate, the king consulted the god Apollo, who said that Psyche should be left alone, in a mourning dress, at the top of a mountain. Before daybreak, a serpent would come to her and marry her. The king obeyed, and throughout the night the princess waited, terrified and freezing, for the arrival of her husband. She ended up falling asleep. As she awoke, she was in a beautiful palace, transformed into a queen. Every night her husband would come to her, they made love, and he had just one condition. Psyche could have anything she desired, but she should trust him completely and never see his face. The young woman lived happily for a very long time; she had comfort, affection, joy, she was in love with the man who came to her every night. Once in a while, however, she was afraid of being married to a horrible serpent. One night, while her husband slept, she illuminated their bed with a lantern and found Cupid, a man of incredible beauty, beside her. The light woke him up and found out that the woman he loved wasn't able to fulfill his only desire, and disappeared. Concluding the Greek myth desperate to have her love back, Psyche submits herself to a series of tasks imposed by Venus, Cupid’s mother, who was envious of her beauty.
Ode to Nightingale:
Before to write this ode poet drunk hemlock and then he write if. His heart aches and he felt like drunk. He is listen someone that is Nightingale. He felt that it was happy of sad so it is singing song.
In it not becoming all this for drinking but there has a kief of Nightingale. He felt that he will going with Nightingale with Hippocrene.
Poet wants to fade away with Nightingale and also wants to forget all the pins. Poet also shows his pain of life and tell it that to fly away. He also said that to fly with wings of poesy. He also use white Hawthorne,pastoral eglantine all this for the ode and for his imagination.
At last he wants to die with listing sing of Nightingale and without any pain. Poet think that all these poetry will give all kind of pleasure . We also come back to reality. So he ask himself that it is vision or dream . Now Nightingale also fly away but he will wake or sleep he does not know.
Myth of Philomela:
Philomela is a minor figure in Greek mythology. She is identified as being the “princess of Athens” and the younger of two daughter of Pardion I, king of Athens and Zeuxippe. Her sister Procne was the wife of king Tereus of Thrace. While the myth has several variations, the general depiction is that Philomela, a migratory passerine bird native to Europe and southwest Asia noted for its song. Because of the violence associated with the myth, the song of the nightingale is often depicted or interpreted as a sorrowful lament.
Tereus had raped Philomela who was his wife’s sister and cut out her tongue. Rendered unable to speak, she moves a tapestry and told her story to Procne. Procne was incensed and in revenge, she killed her son and served it as a meal to her husband. After eating, the sisters presented him with the severe head of his son and he became aware of their conspiracy and his cannibalistic meal. He snatched up an axe and pursued them with the intent to kill the sisters. They fled but mere almost overtaken by Tereus at Daulia in Phocis. In desperation, they prayed to the gods to be turned into binds and escape Tereus rage and vengeance. The gods transformed Procne into a swallow and Philomela into a nightingale.
Myth of Hippocrene:
In Greek mythology Hippocrene was a spring as sacred to the Muses and formed by the hooves of Pegasus's. Its name literally translates as "Horse's Fountain" and the water was supposed to bring forth poetic inspiration when imbibed. Keats refers to Hippocrene in his poem Ode to a Nightingale.
O for a beaker full of the warm South
Full of the true, the blushful Hippocrene,
With beaded bubbles winking at the brim,
And purple-stained mouth;
That I might drink, and leave the world unseen,
And with thee fade away into the forest dim.
In this ode he also use myth of Bacchus and myth of Dryad.
Conclusion:
So John Keats use this kind of myth in his ode. He also wrote ode to Autumn and in this he describe the effect of autumn season on trees . With this ode he tries to give knowledge about real life that how our life if like autumn and how it effect on us .
So wrote these kind of ode he use all mythical approach and show perfectly the experience of life.
He use perfect rhymes scheme and use full stanza for it.
Generally ode has 5 stanza with 10 line but somewhere he break this rule and tries to give his own effect of his ode.
So he used myth in this way in to his ode. He also use some of his life’s experience to express these all ode.
In ode Nightingale we can see that how he reflect his life in it with the example of birds life.
So like this he use myth in his ode show his interest for use of myth. Use of myth is also an Indian tradition and he properly use it in his ode.
Work cited:
http://ranjanvelari201416.blogspot.com/2015/02/my-assignment-on-keats-use-of-myths-in.html?m=1
Class :sem 2
Paper no:5
Subject: John Keats use of myth in his ode.
Roll no:9
:dishagediya11@gmail.com
Submitted to: Department of
English Maharaja krishna kumar
sinhji Bhavnagar University
Words:2,261
to evaluate my assignment clikc here
John Keats use of myth in his ode.
About John Keats:
Keats was born in Moorgate, London, on 31 October 1795 to Thomas Keats and his wife, born Frances Jennings. There is little evidence of his exact birth place. Although Keats and his family seem to have marked his birthday on 29 October, baptism records give the date as the 31st. He was the eldest of four surviving children; another son was lost in infancy. His father first worked as a hostler at the stables attached to the Swan and Hoop Inn, an establishment he later managed, and where the growing family lived for some years. Keats believed that he was born at the inn, a birthplace of humble origins, but there is no evidence to support his belief. He died 23 February 1821 in Rome.
Keats use of myth:
Ode to Grecian urn
Ode to Grecian urn was written by John Keats. In this odd he uses urn for giving example of his feelings. In this ode he use myth in it .
He talked about unravish bride as urn because urn has not any kind of change. Silence and time adopt urn. It is time of change. Urn is kind if silven historians who lives in border of flowers.
People are in urns painting and it’s bound by leaf's border. Arcady is place which near to nature . Temple is pond and arcady seating on it poet ask here to urn and imagine that this man escape from struggle. In this picture someone plays flute and timbrels .
Lover and beloved seat under the tree. Lover plays flute and beloved listen it. They are with together but still away from each other . They are there like they were. They cannot move and touch each other. It is only a picture which is in urn .poet explain urn that not to be disappointed by it because their love still forever.
In season of spring in painting there have no changes. Group of people going to sacrifice if heifer in it. It is preparing like garland. An attic shape urn made up of marble. In this beauty is truth and truth is beauty shown by Keats. This urn will remain forever.
Myth of Prometheus:
Many years ago, according to the stories told by the people of ancient Greece, there lived two brothers who were not like either men or like the gods and goddesses of Mount Olympus. They were the sons of one of the Titans who had fought against Zeus and been sent in chains to the prison of the lover world. The name of the elder of this brother was Prometheus (which means forethought). Prometheus was always thinking of the future and making things ready for what might happen tomorrow or next week or next year, or even in a hundred years time. The younger was called Epimetheus (which means after thought). Epimetheus was always so busy thinker of yesterday or past year, or a hundred years ago that he never worried at all about what might come to pass in the future. Prometheus did not want to live amongst the clouds on Mount Olympus. He was too busy for that while the God was spending their time in emeses drinking nectar and eating ambrosia. He was planning how to the world wiser and better than it had been before so unsteady of living on Olympus. Prometheus went out amongst mess to live with them and he quickly noticed that they were no longer happy as they had been during the golden days when Kronos, the Titan was king. He found them living is caves and in holes of the earth, shivering with the cold because there was no fire, dying of starvation, hunted by wild beasts and by one another the most miserable of all living creature. If they only had fire, said Prometheus to him they could learn to make tools and build themselves houses without fire, they worse off than the beast. Prometheus went to Zeus and begged him to give fire to people, so that so they might have a little comfort through the long, dreary Mont of winter. Prometheus didn't answer but his heart on helping mankind and he did not give up. As he walking by the seashore he found a fall stalk of fennel. He broke off and then saw that its hollow center was filled with a dry soft substance which would burn slowly and stay alight for a long time. He carried the stalk with him as he began a long journey to the top of mount Olympus. Mankind shall have fire despite what Zeus has decided he said to himself. And with that thought he snuck quietly into Zeus domain and stole a spark from Zeus own lightning bolt. Prometheus touched the end of the long speed to the spark and the dry substance within it caught on fire and burned slowly. Prometheus hurried back to his own land carrying with him .The precious spark hidden in the hollow center of the plant. When he reached home he called some of the shivering people from them caves and built a fire for them and showed them how to warm themselves by it and use it to cook their food. Men and women gathered round the fire and happy and thankful to Prometheus for the wonderful gift which he had brought to them. One chilly winter evening Zeus gazed down from Mount Olympus and noticed fires burning cheerfully at the heaths of men and women in every village across the land. It did not take him long to realize Prometheus has disobeyed him and give fire to men. Zeus was very angry and order that Prometheus be changed to the side of a mountain to suffer there for all eternity. And there Prometheus stayed thinking of the future happy in the knowledge that he had given fire to men until he was one day rescued by the mortal, which is a story for another day.
Ode to psyche:
Psyche is daughter if king and most beautiful girl . In this ode Keats address psyche that to pardon him for sung this song. He also sees her . He wanders her in forest and found two creatures. Near by them there was booklet. There had many of flowers of many colours. So many flowers are spread as bed. Their lips not meets with each other but not also departed . They leave that place .poet calling psyche as a dove.
Now poet appreciate her and compare her with phoebe 's sapphire regoin'd stat. She was too much white. In there that is not temple of her. In night bachelor girls were not singing song not to worship for her. He called her as o brightest . He changed his tone and do be her priest. He had not any capacity to do the temple but he says that let him to do something. He told her that he will sing a song for her, play pipe for her etc.
He will prepare a rosy sanctuary. This man has all imagination so he will make a Gardener for fancy of that rosy garden.
Myth of psyche:
Cupid and Psyche is a story from the Latin novel Metamorphoses, also known as the Golden Ass, written in the second century AD by Apuleius. It concerns the overcoming of obstacles to the love between Psyche and Cupid or Amor and their ultimate union in marriage.
Psyche is a former mortal woman and goddess of the soul in Greek mythology. She is the wife of Eros (Cupid) and the mother of Hedone. She is always pictured with butterfly wings.
Once upon a time, there was a beautiful princess, admired by everyone, but whom no one dared to proposed to. Desperate, the king consulted the god Apollo, who said that Psyche should be left alone, in a mourning dress, at the top of a mountain. Before daybreak, a serpent would come to her and marry her. The king obeyed, and throughout the night the princess waited, terrified and freezing, for the arrival of her husband. She ended up falling asleep. As she awoke, she was in a beautiful palace, transformed into a queen. Every night her husband would come to her, they made love, and he had just one condition. Psyche could have anything she desired, but she should trust him completely and never see his face. The young woman lived happily for a very long time; she had comfort, affection, joy, she was in love with the man who came to her every night. Once in a while, however, she was afraid of being married to a horrible serpent. One night, while her husband slept, she illuminated their bed with a lantern and found Cupid, a man of incredible beauty, beside her. The light woke him up and found out that the woman he loved wasn't able to fulfill his only desire, and disappeared. Concluding the Greek myth desperate to have her love back, Psyche submits herself to a series of tasks imposed by Venus, Cupid’s mother, who was envious of her beauty.
Ode to Nightingale:
Before to write this ode poet drunk hemlock and then he write if. His heart aches and he felt like drunk. He is listen someone that is Nightingale. He felt that it was happy of sad so it is singing song.
In it not becoming all this for drinking but there has a kief of Nightingale. He felt that he will going with Nightingale with Hippocrene.
Poet wants to fade away with Nightingale and also wants to forget all the pins. Poet also shows his pain of life and tell it that to fly away. He also said that to fly with wings of poesy. He also use white Hawthorne,pastoral eglantine all this for the ode and for his imagination.
At last he wants to die with listing sing of Nightingale and without any pain. Poet think that all these poetry will give all kind of pleasure . We also come back to reality. So he ask himself that it is vision or dream . Now Nightingale also fly away but he will wake or sleep he does not know.
Myth of Philomela:
Philomela is a minor figure in Greek mythology. She is identified as being the “princess of Athens” and the younger of two daughter of Pardion I, king of Athens and Zeuxippe. Her sister Procne was the wife of king Tereus of Thrace. While the myth has several variations, the general depiction is that Philomela, a migratory passerine bird native to Europe and southwest Asia noted for its song. Because of the violence associated with the myth, the song of the nightingale is often depicted or interpreted as a sorrowful lament.
Tereus had raped Philomela who was his wife’s sister and cut out her tongue. Rendered unable to speak, she moves a tapestry and told her story to Procne. Procne was incensed and in revenge, she killed her son and served it as a meal to her husband. After eating, the sisters presented him with the severe head of his son and he became aware of their conspiracy and his cannibalistic meal. He snatched up an axe and pursued them with the intent to kill the sisters. They fled but mere almost overtaken by Tereus at Daulia in Phocis. In desperation, they prayed to the gods to be turned into binds and escape Tereus rage and vengeance. The gods transformed Procne into a swallow and Philomela into a nightingale.
Myth of Hippocrene:
In Greek mythology Hippocrene was a spring as sacred to the Muses and formed by the hooves of Pegasus's. Its name literally translates as "Horse's Fountain" and the water was supposed to bring forth poetic inspiration when imbibed. Keats refers to Hippocrene in his poem Ode to a Nightingale.
O for a beaker full of the warm South
Full of the true, the blushful Hippocrene,
With beaded bubbles winking at the brim,
And purple-stained mouth;
That I might drink, and leave the world unseen,
And with thee fade away into the forest dim.
In this ode he also use myth of Bacchus and myth of Dryad.
Conclusion:
So John Keats use this kind of myth in his ode. He also wrote ode to Autumn and in this he describe the effect of autumn season on trees . With this ode he tries to give knowledge about real life that how our life if like autumn and how it effect on us .
So wrote these kind of ode he use all mythical approach and show perfectly the experience of life.
He use perfect rhymes scheme and use full stanza for it.
Generally ode has 5 stanza with 10 line but somewhere he break this rule and tries to give his own effect of his ode.
So he used myth in this way in to his ode. He also use some of his life’s experience to express these all ode.
In ode Nightingale we can see that how he reflect his life in it with the example of birds life.
So like this he use myth in his ode show his interest for use of myth. Use of myth is also an Indian tradition and he properly use it in his ode.
Work cited:
http://ranjanvelari201416.blogspot.com/2015/02/my-assignment-on-keats-use-of-myths-in.html?m=1
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