Monday, July 28, 2008

Audio: "Ode on Melancholy"


A couple of separate references to John Keats today led me to revisit "Ode on Melancholy." I'm not the biggest Keats fan, but this is an exceptionally fine poem.







3 comments:

Brenda Schmidt said...

Fine indeed.

Keats and Crane both died young, I see. Yeesh.

Finn Harvor said...

This poem gives me a shiver every time I read/hear it. Have always wondered why "Ode on a Grecian Urn" receives more play.

Zachariah Wells said...

I think it's the aphoristic quotability of "truth is beauty" etc. Most people who quote it don't understand it very well, I think.