Question

What do you mean by 'sheety lake' in ode to evening?

Answer 1

Answer:

Collins is renowned as the Via media, the transitional mediator between the said classicism of the preceding poets like Pope and Dryden on the one hand and bridled romanticism of his successors like, Wordsworth and Shelly on the other. In a poem like Ode to Evening what he ushered in were emotion and imagination in place of reason, the rustic and the homely in place of metropolitan sophistry, lyric freedom in place of rigid couplets, and finally external nature and passion in place of ethical moralism. Rightly did Stoopford Brooke comment that ‘this poem seems to precedent the poetic temper of his successors - -- - - - - and prophecy the romantic poetry to come in the future’ (Naturalism in English poetry ).