Saturn, quiet as a stone, Still as the silence round about his lair; Forest on forest hung about his head Like cloud on cloud. No stir of air was there, Not so much life as on a summer's day Robs not one light seed from the feather'd grass, But where... Poems - Seite 191von John Keats - 1896 - 302 SeitenVollansicht - Über dieses Buch
| Christoph Loreck - 2005 - 236 Seiten
...Hyperion. For example, as De Selincourt has pointed out, Keats's description of the deposed Saturn sitting "Deep in the shady sadness of a vale / Far sunken from the healthy breath of morn,"28 is based on Chapman's Iliad.2'' The passage in question is part of the eighth book. In it,... | |
| Martin Aske - 2005 - 212 Seiten
...the authority of those very texts which had been present, so to speak, at the poem's inception. IV Deep in the shady sadness of a vale Far sunken from...stone, Still as the silence round about his lair; Forest on forest hung above his head Like cloud on cloud. No stir of air was there, Not so much life... | |
| David Rosen - 2008 - 224 Seiten
...Keats's most developed response to the egotistical sublime, and must have disturbed Yeats considerably: Deep in the shady sadness of a vale Far sunken from...stone; Still as the silence round about his lair; Forest on forest hung above his head Like cloud on cloud. No stir of air was there, Not so much life... | |
| Robert Burns Shaw - 2007 - 321 Seiten
...of Keats's absorption of Milton (especially of Milton's quieter lyric touches) shows in every line: Deep in the shady sadness of a vale Far sunken from...from the fiery noon, and eve's one star, / / / / Sat gray-hair 'd Saturn, quiet as a stone, Still as the silence round about his lair; Forest on forest... | |
| Jean Aitchison - 2007 - 213 Seiten
...lines of John Keats's 'Hyperion' (1820) where he heaps up different descriptions of absolute silence: Deep in the shady sadness of a vale Far sunken from the holy breath of morn, Far from the fiery noon, and eve's one star, Sat gray-hair'd Saturn, quiet as... | |
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