briefly discuss the Sturutue of the poem. "The human seasons"
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The structure of a poem refers to the way it is presented to the reader. This could include technical things such as the line length and stanza format. Or it could include the flow of the words used and ideas conveyed. Line length shows the reader how it should be read.
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John Keats (1795-1821) was an English Romantic poet who contributed several great works to the canon of English-language poetry. Though Keats trained formally as a surgeon, his literary pursuits distinguished him as a tactful writer even in his own time. He often employed picturesque imagery that reflects his upbringing at a stable, as in this poem where the bucolic suggestions conjure images of the countryside.
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This poem presents the different stages of life rendered as the four seasons of the year. Instead of describing the physical nature of these stages however, they are the seasons present in “the mind of man.” For every “season” of life, man has a different outlook. First, he lives his “lusty spring” during which anything seems possible and he observes “all beauty.” The idea that in Spring man can take in all beauty with an “easy span” suggests a certain naiveté in youth where one thinks all beauty may be observed in singularity. Keats personifies Spring as “lusty” to emphasize the parallel between the season and the youthful state of mind. Spring occupies only two lines of this sonnet, which further reflects the brevity of a childish outlook on life.
Next comes his Summer, which lacks the same lust and ease of Spring, but during which he can “ruminate” on Spring’s “honied cud of youthful thought.” What were once youthful, fleeting thoughts can, in Summer, be reflected on with more clarity, and pondered or chewed over as a cow or ruminant animal would chew and re-chew its cud. This is no regular cud, however, but “honied” cud that retains the sweetness of youth and its wistful musings. During his Summer, by reflecting on his Spring, man gains a sense of enlightenment, or “dreaming high,” that is “nearest unto heaven.” While growing nearer to heaven, both in acquiring a sense of self and more literally aging towards a time of death, man enters the “quiet coves” of Autumn. These “quiet coves” contrast the image of man’s mind ruminating on his “honied cud”