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A review by kenbooky
Odes by John Keats
Part 1 of my summer reading series
I have been on a mission to refamiliarize myself with the poetic canon. I’ve been taking this online poetry workshop and Keat’s Ode’s was our first stop on said poetry tour de force.
Things learned: to truly understand poetry, especially the romantics you have to have a good handle on Greek mythology.
Keats is pretty emo. I am surprised he is not marketed like a Poe or Dickinson the way he talks of self harm and suicide ideation in ode to melancholy.
We had some pretty interesting conversations about Keat’s lost stanzas and if it’s revisionist of us to go back and read the poem with the stanza included.
I have been on a mission to refamiliarize myself with the poetic canon. I’ve been taking this online poetry workshop and Keat’s Ode’s was our first stop on said poetry tour de force.
Things learned: to truly understand poetry, especially the romantics you have to have a good handle on Greek mythology.
Keats is pretty emo. I am surprised he is not marketed like a Poe or Dickinson the way he talks of self harm and suicide ideation in ode to melancholy.
We had some pretty interesting conversations about Keat’s lost stanzas and if it’s revisionist of us to go back and read the poem with the stanza included.