Random Notes
...the subject 2nd and the object last (what the verb is doing, doesn’t always have to be near the verb.) and 3rd, modifier of the object.
Verb compliment: something that defines the verb.
If you have an infinitive like “to eat” don’t put anything between them.
When the verb describes a state the word that defines the subject is the compliment.
Ode to a Nightingale - Keats:
Definition of ‘Ode’ song of praise. It came back into style in the romantic period.
Lyric poem
Contrast between mortality and immortality with himself and the nightingale. But the song of the nightingale is what is immortal.
First reaction is surprise because he cannot understand why the bird is so happy.
So the bird has linked him with good things like wine like summer
The bird is poetry
Suffering is his personal and of the world
Ruth is from the bible. She stands in a cornfield homesick for her own people and she heard the same nightingale’s song. So because she was comforted by the same song thousands of years before then the bird must be immortal.
Was it a vision or seeing or a waking dream or day dream. The difference is that a vision is truer. You can use the imagery of doubt to argue it is a day dream because he cant believe what he has experienced therefore he has to ask. The question can also be am I alive or dead because the whole poem is about the in between state and if he is in a visionary state it is because he is in between.
Tuesday 20/01/2009
Grammar Getaway
“Vladimir is a brilliant designer” there is no object or compliment there is a completion of subject
“ing” words ARE NEVER verbs
Ode on a Grecian Urn Keats
Different tot the nightingale’s song because it is static, visual, and spatial.
There are 3 personifications in the first part. Bride who is a foster child parented by silence and slow time, the urn is a sylvan historian who does a better...
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