John Keats attempted writing this poem with mythological characters to accurately express his ideas and to do it in a creative manner.
Was he indeed successful while appointing these characters to certain standpoints and involvements? In order to answer such a question, one must require an understanding of each mythological god who is referenced in the poem, and more importantly, a better knowledge of the man who's ideas are being expressed.It is necessary to learn which ideas Keats is expressing with his imagery using mythological symbolism, how certain audiences acted to this piece of literature, and what mightn't triggered such strong emotions in a man to the point of producing this poem in the manner that he had. By learning these things one will be able to tell which characteristics were favored by Keats within each god and goddess.Keats was born in London on the 31st day of October in the year of 1795, superseding his three younger siblings. Unfortunately, he lost his father when he was only eight years old, and was raised by his mother until she passed away due to tuberculosis Just six years later. The only person left to care for the fairly young boy t that time was his grandmother on his mother's side, who apparently was not able to care for him, being that she appointed two men who were London merchants to take over his guardianship.
The person who took the most of the responsibility caring for Keats was named Richard Abbey, a successful tea broker, who removed the boy from the school he was enrolled in at the time to study and practice medicine with an apothecary-surgeon in a hospital nearby. He soon became a licensed apothecary, but the study of medicine turned out not to be a career he was passionate about. However, Keats wisely pursued writing poetry. Academy of American Poets.
) It is safe to say that Keats had his share of unfortunate events in his early life, with his parent's passing away and the pressure of studying medicine from his guardians.On the other hand, he was lucky enough to realize his dream of being a poet in those years of strife. He became friends with a handful of successful poets such including William Wordsmith and Percy Shelley. He was introduced to them by the publisher of his first two poems. Keats went on to write a volume of poems that Shelley advised him to revise and edit before publishing.
The confident Keats refused to take his device and received rather negative reviews from critics. These well known critics discouraged Keats with their sharp words and even suggested he give up on writing any more poetry.According to Shelley, the criticism effected Keats so badly that his health had gotten worse. But needless to say, he did not give up and proceeded to write poetry, and as he got better at it, so did the criticism of his works. By the time he was writing Hyperfine: A Fragment, he was considered a literary genius. This unfinished work was published in his third volume of poems called Lamiae, Isabella, The Eve of SST.
Agnes, and Other Poems in the year of 1820. By this time, he had tuberculosis which he contracted from his brother. The disease proved to be fatal, taking Keats life when he was only 25 years old in the following year. Academy of American Poets. ) writer is symbolically transferred into the Hyperfine poem. He truly pours his heart and soul out onto paper, and creatively uses roman gods to represent different aspects of the human psyche and how they react under pressure.
It is almost as if he pulled himself apart, separated and compartmentalized each of his conflicting views onto different beings and threw them all into a situation representative of his mental state. For instance, one might say his willingness to gracefully slip into death is symbolically portrayed by the wise Ocean's.In roman mythology, this god was the "principal of that radical moisture diffused throughout universal matter" and are "ranked in the highest classes of sea deities". (Roman Coliseum) According to Homer, he is the beginning of everything, including every god. (upend) This god was one of the six gods of the titan race who ruled the universe. He specifically was in hare of the "river ocean" that formed Earth's outermost limits(world myths).
In his poem, Ocean's makes a speech urging the Titans to accept their defeat because they are only due to the law of Nature, which states "first in beauty should be first in might".Ocean's is trying to comfort his fellow Titans by saying these things, Just as Keats might be telling himself that it is clearly his time to accept defeat and die in order for someone better to take his place. (own idea) Another way to see into the mind of Keats through this poem, as stated by Tim Fen-shank Tsar, would be to link his story to that of the history of "the French Revolution and its aftermath. " Different critics have taken different opinions in relating it to the revolution and politics, such as Ronald Paulson and Alan J.
Swell.Paulson interprets the poem's political stance in that it "associates the process of revolution with the movement from sublime to beautiful", while Befell notices Skate's mixed feelings toward the 'liberal ideology of progress'. Paulson separates it from strictly being an allegorical revolutionary interpretation by insisting Ocean's' statement about beauty and might as "sees that the innocence of [the Titans'] existence required the revolution that transforms beauty into sublimity, and that this will in turn lead to a higher form of beauty-through-knowledge. Swell also distances the poem's political stance from "serious commitment", reading Ocean's' statement in which it "rewrites political revolution in non-violent, aesthetic terms.
" (Tsar) Paulson relates the revolution of politics to Skate's own progress with his writing. (Tsar) I find that this criticism could very well be on point, suggesting that Keats might have suffered in changing his somewhat vulgar style of writing poetry from when he iris began with writing the romantic poem Indention, which was not taken well by critics, to evolving with such formal perfected literature. (Academy of American Poets. In a sense, Keats might have had to strain himself to write this way, but the product turned into something beautiful, and therefore gained beauty through knowledge, and knowledge from pain. I have an understanding that Befell and Paulson have valid understandings relating to Keats wanting and not wanting change, being that I interpret this poem to be paradoxical in many ways.
Hypersonic name translated into English meaner "he who goes before the sun". He is said to be the oldest of the original 12 Titans. Sometimes he is called "titan of the light". He is also the father of the moon, sun, and dawn.His children were supposed anxiety and suspense. He is the last titan to still have power over his dominion.
All of his fellow Titans under Saturn are looking up to him to save their race and restore their power, especially Includes. Includes is said to be one of the giants who tried to defeat the Olympian and was hit with a lightning bolt by Zeus. From then on he was trapped under Met. Eaten and shook the mountain every time he lolled over.
(Pantheon) The character Includes represents in this poem is one of great pride and stubbornness, but also one of loyalty and hope.He rejects Ocean's' speech and has plans to gain back the power of the Titans in order to be loyal to his lord Saturn, but also because of his own self interest. He does not take losing his power very gracefully. His fellow defeated titan gods listen to him and agree to fight to retrieve their thrones, his reasoning behind his confidence is that Hyperfine has not yet been defeated, therefore they still have a fighting chance. The poem comes to n end where the Titan's are defeated, even Hyperfine and his effort to try and save the races divinity was a lost cause.
The wife and sister of Hyperfine is Theta.She is known in mythology as "mild-eyed Repurchases, the far shining one". (Princeton) She is the only goddess who is able to wake Saturn from his coma-like state of depression. She wakes him up and brings him to the place where the other titan gods and goddesses remain.
Saturn is to be the god of time in this story, but sources insist that he is really the god of agriculture and plants and such, and is commonly confused with Kronor, who is said to be the actual god of time. It is not uncommon that these mythological gods and goddesses were "not always well-defined" and sometimes get mixed up with one another. NASA) Saturn is the leader of the Titans according to Keats. In the beginning of the story he is in a deep sleep of depression from being conquered by the Olympian. It is interesting that Keats has chosen the "god of time" to be the leader of a whole race of gods and goddesses.
One might say this is because of Keats ideals of the concept of time, being that he was headed towards death and did not have much time left on earth. Apollo is another important god in this piece of literature, some might say he is the most important.The beautiful and very creative ending of Hyperfine: A Fragment involves Apollo and Moneys. Apollo, one of the most important gods of the Olympian, is the son of Zeus and Let and has a twin brother named Artemisia. He is a god of music and poetry, and is supposed to be very handsome and is able to give the gift of prophesy to the humans that he loved. The ancient Greeks were said to believe that diseases spread because of the arrows of Apollo and Artemisia getting hot at them, and that this shooting would only stop if they were to pray to Apollo himself.
This is how the myth of curing diseases responsible by Apollo came about. There is also a myth that he has a son named Secularism, who is said to be a mortal who healed humans so successfully that he had a reputation of resurrecting the dead. Hades, god of the underworld, complained about this and as a result, Zeus killed him with a thunderbolt in order to maintain peace in the godly realms. He became a god after he was killed by Zeus and remained in the stars, where he is en as a man holding a snake.
Apollo) Apollo is the god who replaced the titan sun god hyperfine in both Skate's poem responsible for memory and Muses in Greek mythology(MONEYS), but in this story she represents all human experience. She tells Apollo about how she has been watching him from when he was a child, day and night. He had been experiencing extreme sadness for a great while, along with "aching ignorance" about certain things like the stars, how nature worked, who ruled the whole universe, and why he had been overcome by melancholy for so long.Keats expresses that Anemone's ace is still and she does not say anything, but she gives away all of the answers he was looking for. The answers her eave gave away were "names, deeds, old legends, dire events, rebellions, majesties, sovereign voices, agonies, creations and destroying. " When he became aware of all these things he went through a surge of pain and he experienced the agony of death.
When he was done going through unbearable pain and suffering, he finally felt the ecstasy of becoming a god and was overjoyed. He then took Hypersonic throne and became able to write elite poetry and produce divine music
