Commentary on "On Sitting Down to Read King Lear Once Again" by John Keats

POEM : On Sitting Down to Read office Lear once Again

O golden-tongued Romance with serene lute!

Fair plumed Syren! Queen of remote away!

Leave melodizing on this wintry day,

Shut up thine olden pages, and be mute:

Adieu! for once again the fierce dispute,

Betwixt damnation and impassiond clay

Must I burn through; once more humbly assay

The bitter-sweet of this Shakespearian fruit.

Chief Poet! and ye clouds of Albion,

Begetters of our deep eternal theme,

When through the old oak plant I am gone,

Let me not wander in a barren dream,

But when I am consumed in the fire,

Give me new phoenix wings to fly at my desire.

COMMENTARY :

The rime under find out was written in 1818 after the completion of John Keatss 4,000-line poem Endymion. We are facing a traditional and fixed stochastic variable of poem as Sitting Down to Read King Lear Once Again is an Elizabethan sonnet composed of fourteen lines which are divided up into three quatrains, that is four-line stanzas, and a last-place couplet -or two lines of verse. The rhyming pattern is abba, cddc, efef, gg as, notably lute (l.1) rhymes with mute (l.4), far-away (l.2) with day (l.3) and dispute (l.5) with fruit (l.8).



Moreover, the lines are iambic pentameters since they contain five iambic feet for instance :

_ / _ / _ / _ / _ /

O Gol/den-tongued /Romance, /with se/rene Lute!

Like most of Keatss poems, this text deals with the speakers encounter with something which incites him to meditate and alters significantly his vision of life. It is the perusal of King Lear written by William Shakespeare in 1605 which affects him this time and this is not a first reading judging by the presence of Once Again in the title. Keats was a...

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