It was composed as an elegy to his friend, Hallam, who died at the age of 22 from a fever. ... The poet compares himself to the yews and so to the death, I think because these animals live underground, and as human being they born and die; moreover he envies "the sullen tree" and "for thy stubborn hardihood" because the tree does not die and in my opinion he imagines to free himself from hishuman nature, represented by the blood, and therefore incorporating himself into nature. ... In my opinion winter represents the death of nature, but the difference is that nature regenerates, whereas h...

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He realises the transitory nature of human life; and by the end of stanza six recognises that the Nightingale would not cease to sing if he were to die "Still wouldst thou sing, an I have ears in vain- To thy high requiem become a sod." ... The more that the happiness of the Nightingale is shown by Keats as it "singist in summer of full fronted ease", the more pain it ultimately brings to the poet. ... They inherently show through lines such as "She dwells with Beauty- Beauty that must die" the inescapable truth of reality, that which Keats himself termed "misery, heartbreak, pain, sickness an...

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"My heart is to intensify the expression of things, as is done by Crivelli, Bellini, ect, so that the heart and inner meaning is made vividly visible."" Thomas Hardy states on January 3rd, 1886, about his works (Scott 2). A common thread that is in three of Hardy's many poems is a passion or mourn...

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