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soccerdreamer_17

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on: Jul 20, 2018
What specifically is the attraction the speaker feels for death?
 
  What will be an ideal response?

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Why cant the speaker (in stanza V) see the flowers at his feet or in thebranches above him?
 
  What will be an ideal response?


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Reply #1 on: Jul 20, 2018
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  • Death brings an end to pain: seems it rich to die, / To cease upon the midnight with no pain (lines 5556). Keatss ode is a classic expression of the death wish in which one sees death as a rest from the exhaustion and pain of existence. This is not a suicidal impulse, but rather a more generalized fantasy of escape from lifes turmoil.



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  • Because there is no light; he is in what he calls embalmed darkness.



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Reply 2 on: Jul 20, 2018
Great answer, keep it coming :)

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Excellent

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