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"To Sleep" by John Keats

Theme: Imagery

- "gloom-pleased eyes" reminds me of paintings from one of my favorite artists, Angelina Wrona. She always paints the eyes to look sad, but the girls still look peaceful

- "poppies" represent both sleep and death. Sleep because of the opium extracted from them, and death because of their blood-red colour. People in pain are prescribed opiates

- *Song: "Opium" by Marcy Playground*

Theme: Metaphor

- John Keats uses the word "sleep" as a metaphor

- actually means "to die"

- Keats interprets that to die is like to fall asleep; a state of unconsciousness.

Review

- "To Sleep" is actually a metaphor for death

- Keats interprets that to die will be peaceful by the use of words like "soft", "careful", and "benign"

- Takes place in the last minutes of his life

Definitions

Theme: Structure

Theme: Tone

Embalmer: to treat (a corpse) with preservatives in order to prevent decay

Benign: gentle; kindly

Embowered: surround or shelter (a place or person)

Thine: the word thou (in most dialects) is a second person singular pronoun in English

Hymn: a religious song or poem, typically of praise to a god

Lulling: calm or send to sleep, typically with soothing sounds or movements

Deftly: quick & skillful

- Keats uses pleasant words through the poem to express his feelings about death (ex. soft, careful, benign, soothest sleep, etc.)

- Poem has a certain flow, which makes it easier to read

-"To Sleep" by John Keats is a sonnet composed of 14 verses.

- rhyme structure: ababcdcd fgfg

- words that rhyme: "midnight"/"light"; "hoards"/"wards"; "benign"/"divine"

Meaning:

- takes place in the last minutes of his life

- the speaker wants to be saved of the life or state of consciousness that he's in (ex. wonders if God will take him in the middle of this sonnet, or after the priest blesses him).

-Save me from curious conscience..."shows that the speaker is curious as to what awaits him on the other side,

-"Turn the key deftly in the oiled wards,/And seal the hushed Casket of my Soul” shows that he is in a hospital-like setting, and makes me think of when a patient passes away, they put them in the morgue where it keeps the bodies cold until the funeral director arrives.

"To Sleep" - John Keats

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