Addressed to the Same
Addressed to the Same - meaning Summary
Emerging Poetic Forces
Keats’s sonnet praises contemporary and forthcoming creative spirits who renew the world’s heart. Using vivid natural and artistic imagery, the speaker honors established literary figures and those rising within his circle, projecting their influence into the future. The poem reads as a tribute and a summons: great artists are at work now, reshaping feeling and politics, and nations should pause and heed their transformative labors.
Read Complete AnalysesGreat spirits now on earth are sojourning; He of the cloud, the cataract, the lake, Who on Helvellyn’s summit, wide awake, Catches his freshness from Archangel’s wing: He of the rose, the violet, the spring, The social smile, the chain for Freedom’s sake: And lo!—whose stedfastness would never take A meaner sound than Raphael’s whispering. And other spirits there are standing apart Upon the forehead of the age to come; These, these will give the world another heart, And other pulses. Hear ye not the hum Of mighty workings? Listen awhile ye nations, and be dumb.
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