Analyzing Keat's sonnets

In both sonnets I can find that the author is comparing his feelings with features of the nature. In the sonnet On Seeing the Elgin Marbles for the First Time I could see that characteristic: “Of godlike hardship tells me I must die like a sick eagle looking at the sky”, he compares himself with a weak bird which is about to die. In other words, he is showing he is unpleasant due to the idea of mortality. Here the main topic is the death “mortality”. The author feels the need to get rid of the idea of dying which oppressed him, as another characteristic of Romanticism.

In the sonnet When I have Fears that I may Cease to Be the author also shows a need to express what he feels (fear). The topic here is “fear”. Here is a connection between what he feels and the feature of the nature: “Before high-piled books, in charactery, Hold like rich garners the full ripen'd grain;…”Here he may try to make readers to understand what he feels, although it is an uneasy quote.

Analysing Kubla Khan (S.T Coleridge)

In the poem Kubla Khan the elements of the nature are described, such as river, hills, gardens, and so on. Here, the author wanted to represent “external nature and human thoughts affection”. The mention of a savage holy and enchanted place and it relation with the characters in the poem is a good example of it.

The inclusion of a maid playing her instrument shows a part of the characteristics of Romanticism: the need to free men from oppression. The woman in this poem might play music as a way to get rid of bad feelings that oppressed her.

The poem is also simple because each line is adaptable for readers to comprehend the main idea of the context in the poem. Most of the lines have a meaning which can be able to move readers’ feelings and affections. For that reason, each line of the poem can produce a feeleng of sadness in expressions like “sunless sea”and a “lifeless ocean” It can also produce happiness in expressions like the miracle of “a sunny pleasure-dome with caves of ice”.