ENG308Y1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 12: Stout
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John keats, on first looking into chapman"s homer. Octave and sextet and there"s a resolution to a tension or a problem in the last lines of. Realms of gold suggestive of gold leaf in book spines. Move to astronomy sense of astronomy is literal and physical transcendence. Dominant image of travel superimposed on the dominant motif of reading. Encapsulation/distillation of some of the central motifs of romanticism. Speaker who describes the way he is transported, achieves a sense of transcendence from his encounter with a poem (cultural artefact) The poem is his response to the translation. The travel is a literary travel travel of reading rather than voyaging. Travel establishes a sense of discovery through the travel imagery. This is imagery of movement, which is situated on a solitary immobility. He"s sitting down and he"s reading but the reading is described is terms of travel.
