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John Keats: Ode on Melancholy (Sprache & Litteratur).

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John Keats: Ode on Melancholy (Sprache & Litteratur). John Keats war eine der größten Lyrikerbegabungen der englischen Literatur in den ersten Dekaden des 19. Jahrhunderts, vor allem seine Oden zählen zu den poetischen Höhepunkten der romantischen Epoche in England. Ode on Melancholy, eine Pindarische Ode aus seinem dritten Gedichtband Lamia, Isabella, The Eve of St. Agnes, and Other Poems (1820), demonstriert den enormen Reichtum seines sprachlichen Ausdrucksvermögens. John Keats: Ode on Melancholy 1 No, no, go not to Lethe, neither twist Wolf's-bane, tight-rooted, for its poisonous wine; Nor suffer thy pale forehead to be kiss'd By nightshade, ruby grape of Proserpine; Make not your rosary of yew-berries, Nor let the beetle, nor the death-moth be Your mournful Psyche, nor the downy owl A partner in your sorrow's mysteries; For shade to shade will come too drowsily, And drown the wakeful anguish of the soul. 2 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; Or if thy mistress some rich anger shows, Emprison her soft hand, and let her rave, And feed deep, deep upon her peerless eyes. 3 She dwells with Beauty - Beauty 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: 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; His soul shall taste the sadness of her might, And be among her cloudy trophies hung. John Keats: The Poems. Edited, with an Introduction by Ernest de Selincourt. London 1954, S. 206. Microsoft ® Encarta ® 2009. © 1993-2008 Microsoft Corporation. Alle Rechte vorbehalten.

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