What is your favorite line or lines from the ode? The choice is, ...

[corkyiscool3328]

What is your favorite line or lines from the ode? The choice is, of course,personal, but give your reasons, if possible, for your choice.
 
  What will be an ideal response?

Question 2

By the time Keats wrote this poem, he knew he might die young fromtuberculosis. Do you see any evidence of this knowledge in the text of the poem?
 
  What will be an ideal response?

[leahm14]

Answer to Question 1

• There is no single answer to this open question, but here are two of our favorites. The line I have been half in love with easeful Death (line 52) is famous; it is a perfect pentameter line, and a striking one, thanks largely to the surprising word easeful. Thou wast not born for death, immortal Bird (line 61) is also a famous line, which quite neatly sums up the Romantic poets sensibility, viewing a bird not as a mortal being but as a part of undying nature. Also note the words tender is the night, which F. Scott Fitzgerald borrowed for the title for his famous novel.

Answer to Question 2

• The line about how youth grows pale, and spectre-thin, and dies, reads like a vision of his own fate. It is also a vivid recollection of the death of Keatss brother Tom (see introductory note above). The speaker is clearly haunted by the image of suffering and death. Otherwise, it seems strange for a young man to say that even to think is to be full of sorrow.

[corkyiscool3328]

Both answers were spot on, thank you once again

[leahm14]

Great! Please up vote