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ODE ON
MELANCHOLY
Knowledge is our
Teacher.

John Keats
Romantic Poet
British Romantic movement
Poet of passions and emotions
Tuberculosis
Heartbroken
Youngest of the Six
First to die
Gravestone to read
Here lies one whose name was writ in water

Ode On Melancholy
Overview of the poem
Three stanzas
How to cope with sadness
1st Stanza
What not to do?

Not

2nd

to relieve the pain of melancholy with poison

Stanza

Overcome

3rd

Stanza

Pleasure

What to do?
sorrow with natural beauty

Explains these injunctions

and pain are inextricably linked

Beauty must die, joy is fleeting
To experience joy, feel pain and grief

Ode On Melancholy

No, no, go not to Lethe, neither twist

Wolf's-bane, tight-rooted, for its
poisonous wine;
Poem

starts with repeated denial

Lethe
Oblivion river in Greek myth
Not to twist the wolfs-bane for its poisonous
wine
Wolfs-bane flower
harmful in large dose
At tiny quantity
Confusion,

mild pain killer

at what level it is taken

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Nor suffer thy pale forehead to be kiss'd

By
nightshade,
ruby
grape
of
Proserpine;
Make not your rosary of yewberries,
Forbad

not taking nightshade to relieve pain

Nightshade
the ruby grape of Proserpine
Proserpine
daughter of Demeter, goddess of
fertility and growing things
Hades god of underworld
kidnapped
Proserpine

Ode On Melancholy

Nor let the beetle, nor the death-moth be

Your mournful Psyche,
Beetle

ancient Egyptian myth

Regarded

as sacred symbol of resurrection

Regenerate from nothing
Seems to be linked with transformation and renewal
Death-moth

common name for Acherontia

atropos
Not allow both to follow
mornful Psyche
Psyche
human lover of Cupid
Son of
Aphrodite
the goddess of
love

Ode On Melancholy

nor the downy owl

A partner in your sorrow's
mysteries;
Owl
symbol of death
Not attached the symbol of sadness

For shade to shade will come too

drowsily,
And drown the wakeful anguish of the
soul.

wakeful to be alert to soul to relish the

melancholy

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But when the melancholy fit shall fall

Sudden from heaven like a weeping
cloud,
That fosters the droop-headed flowers all,
And hides the green hill in an April
shroud;
Then glut thy sorrow on a morning rose,
Or on the rainbow of the salt sand-wave,
Or on the wealth of globed peonies;
Glut

= eat immodestly
Globed peonies like morning rose fade and turn

Ode On Melancholy

Or if thy mistress some rich anger shows,

Emprison her soft hand, and let her
rave,
And feed deep, deep upon her
peerless eyes.
Rave

= yell
Peerless = matchless

Ode On Melancholy

She dwells with BeautyBeauty that must

die;
And Joy, whose hand is ever at his lips
Bidding adieu; and aching Pleasure nigh,
Turning to poison while the bee-mouth
sips:
Adieu

= farewell
Nigh = nearby

Ode On Melancholy
Ay, in the very temple of Delight
Veil'd Melancholy has her sovran shrine
Though seen of none save him whose
strenuous tongue
Can burst Joy's grape against his palate
fine;

Ay

= yes
Delight personified as god
Sovran = sovereign

Ode On Melancholy

His soul shalt taste the sadness of her might,

And be among her cloudy trophies hung.