Written on a Blank Space
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Sonnets of Gentle Simplicity
Keats frames the poem as a short sonnet celebrating modest, natural art. He likens a pleasant tale to a little copse whose interlaced lines and wandering melody produce immediate sensory effects. The speaker admires the quiet power of "white Simplicity" and admits that, despite a habitual thirst for glory, he could be content to lie meekly on the grass, moved by small, private sorrow and the song of robins.
Read Complete AnalysesThis pleasant tale is like a little copse: The honied lines so freshly interlace, To keep the reader in so sweet a place, So that he here and there full-hearted stops; And oftentimes he feels the dewy drops Come cool and suddenly against his face, And, by the wandering melody, may trace Which way the tender-legged linnet hops. Oh! what a power has white Simplicity! What mighty power has this gentle story! I, that do ever feel athirst for glory, Could at this moment be content to lie Meekly upon the grass, as those whose sobbings Were heard of none beside the mournful robins.
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