Register now, 7 days free trial. Agnes" is a poem 42 stanzas. It is widely considered to be amongst his finest poems and was influential in 19th century literature. The poem is in Spenserian stanzas. Agnes as a basis for theorizing about the reading process, Stillinger's book explores the nature and whereabouts of "meaning" in complex works. A proponent of authorial intent, Stillinger argues a theoretical compromise between author and reader, applying a theory of interpretive democracy that includes the endlessly multifarious reader's response as well as Keats's guessed-at intent.
Stillinger also considers the process of constructing meaning, and posits an answer to why Keats's work is. This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore, you will see the original copyright references, library stamps as most of these works have been housed in our most important libraries around the world , and other notations in the work.
This work is in the public. Comprised of 42 Spenserian stanzas, it was considered one of his best poems by his contemporaries and remained influential well into the 19th century. The title comes from the day or evening before the feast of Saint Agnes or St. Agnes' Eve. Agnes, the patron saint of virgins, died a martyr in 4th century Rome. The eve falls on January 20th; the feast day on the 21st. The divinations referred to by Keats in this poem are referred to by John Aubrey in his Miscellanies as being associated with St.
Agnes' night. Keats based his poem on the superstition that a girl could see her future husband in a dream if she performed certain rites on the eve of St. Agnes; that is she would go to bed without any supper, undress herself so that she was completely naked and lie on her bed with her hands under the pillow and looking up to the heavens and not to look behind.
Then the proposed husband would appear in her dream, kiss her, and feast with her. Stillinger also considers the process of constructing meaning, and posits an answer to why Keats's work is considered canonical, and why it is still being read and admired. This ebook has been designed and formatted to the highest digital standards and adjusted for readability on all devices.
John Keats — was an English Romantic poet. John Keats - was an English Romantic poet. It is based on the Titanomachia, and tells of the despair of the Titans after their fall to the Olympians. Keats wrote the poem from late until the spring of , when he gave it up as having "too many Miltonic inversions. According to Brown, a nightingale had built its nest near his home in the spring of Inspired by the bird's song, Keats composed the poem in one day.
It soon became one of his odes and was first published in Annals of the Fine Arts the following July. The tone of the poem rejects the optimistic pursuit of pleasure found within Keats's earlier poems and explores the themes of nature, transience and mortality, the latter being particularly personal to Keats.
The nightingale described within the poem experiences a type of death but does not actually die. Instead, the songbird is capable of living through its song, which is a fate that humans cannot expect.
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