Poets are artists who carve their way in life through words. It is their own craft, as much as woodcarving is a carpenter's craft. We always take it for granted that artists who make their living with their own craft do it because they like doing what they’re doing; but it is not the only reason one might choose to exercise their own craft. In the three poems, we each see contrasting perspectives on their relationship with the same craft as shown in the poems primarily through tone and imagery. In “When I have Fears That I May Cease to Be” by John Keats, he paints an image of the beautiful nature. Throughout the poem, especially in lines 5-11 he describes the magnificence of the view. The tone of the poem starts off as having a worrisome tone,
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The reason for this need to write what his imagination conjures is given in the later lines, through the imagery of the majestic nature. “Huge cloudy symbols of a high romance” (line 6) suggests an adventure, or a fairy tale in the clouds. Herein lies his source of limitless imagination - in nature itself. Nature is not cannot be bound in one shape forever. Furthermore, it is always changing, and the clouds, with their various shapes, is only one example of its inconsistency. In addition to this, the diction used in its description of nature (e.g. magic, fair, faery power, unreflecting love, etc.) all convey to us just how brilliant the view is. Keats feels the irresistible urge to write this beauty down in “high-piléd books, in charactery,” (line 3), before he dies. The need to describe in words what one cannot hold on is clear, for in lines 12-14 it is written “then on the shore Of the wide world I stand alone, and think Till love and fame and …show more content…
Conversely to Keats, who writes of nature, Neruda writes for humans, to anyone who is a prisoner of a situation. This can be inferred to from lines 1-4 “....to whoever is cooped up in house…or dry prison cell”. Looking closely at the diction of the lines - “cooped up” (line 2) - we can deduce that this is addressed to anyone held in a difficult situation. This imagery portrayed in the first few lines make us imagine something bleak and gray. As we can infer to from the title of this poem, Neruda feels his job as a poet to be his obligation, and something similar to this is written in line 13 “...Drawn by my destiny,” which must be pointing to his calling in life to make poems. His tone is obligatory, as seen in the diction he uses such as “I must” (line 16). What he is obliged to do is to go to these prisoners of a circumstance, and free them from their prison (lines 1-6). In the second stanza, we find a similarity with Keats’s poem. Imagination is found in nature, Keats from nature all around us and Neruda from the sea. “To whoever is not listening to the sea” (line 1) and “asking “How can I reach the sea?”” (line 23) is an indication of this. The world is surrounded by the sea; it is the common ground for everyone. Something every person would have had at some point in their lives is the imagination. The “sentence of autumn” (line 19), which is the season of decline
The reason for this need to write what his imagination conjures is given in the later lines, through the imagery of the majestic nature. “Huge cloudy symbols of a high romance” (line 6) suggests an adventure, or a fairy tale in the clouds. Herein lies his source of limitless imagination - in nature itself. Nature is not cannot be bound in one shape forever. Furthermore, it is always changing, and the clouds, with their various shapes, is only one example of its inconsistency. In addition to this, the diction used in its description of nature (e.g. magic, fair, faery power, unreflecting love, etc.) all convey to us just how brilliant the view is. Keats feels the irresistible urge to write this beauty down in “high-piléd books, in charactery,” (line 3), before he dies. The need to describe in words what one cannot hold on is clear, for in lines 12-14 it is written “then on the shore Of the wide world I stand alone, and think Till love and fame and …show more content…
Conversely to Keats, who writes of nature, Neruda writes for humans, to anyone who is a prisoner of a situation. This can be inferred to from lines 1-4 “....to whoever is cooped up in house…or dry prison cell”. Looking closely at the diction of the lines - “cooped up” (line 2) - we can deduce that this is addressed to anyone held in a difficult situation. This imagery portrayed in the first few lines make us imagine something bleak and gray. As we can infer to from the title of this poem, Neruda feels his job as a poet to be his obligation, and something similar to this is written in line 13 “...Drawn by my destiny,” which must be pointing to his calling in life to make poems. His tone is obligatory, as seen in the diction he uses such as “I must” (line 16). What he is obliged to do is to go to these prisoners of a circumstance, and free them from their prison (lines 1-6). In the second stanza, we find a similarity with Keats’s poem. Imagination is found in nature, Keats from nature all around us and Neruda from the sea. “To whoever is not listening to the sea” (line 1) and “asking “How can I reach the sea?”” (line 23) is an indication of this. The world is surrounded by the sea; it is the common ground for everyone. Something every person would have had at some point in their lives is the imagination. The “sentence of autumn” (line 19), which is the season of decline