The Existence of Absence in Keats' "On Seeing the Elgin Marbles for the First Time"

In his Sonnet "Seeing the First Elgin Marbles", John Keats proposed a series of conflicts and tensions in various ways. Most remarkable is the eternal juxtaposition of his own existence of the poet and the eternal juxtaposition of Greek marble sculpture. This is probably related to the nature of eternal art. But there is another more subtle tension between presence and absence. It is a paradox that appears as a form of existence. This kind of confrontation in Sonnet shows the negative ability of Keats' self creation and it can be "uncertainty, mystery, doubt without any violent facts and rationality" (Keat 863) .

As Keats can easily title titles "When I saw Elgin Marble" in poetry, the situation he is related to is completely a thing of the past. Secondly, he turned his eyes to marble and it was his "soul" that first saw "marble". Weak "I did not accept the idea of" seeing "until the eleventh line of the poem where he was the only thing to directly refer to marble as" these miracles ". Perhaps from the start, Keats could not explain the marble; if he wants to complete a sentence for him, we might read it:

It is easy to look at poetry like "Seeing Elgin Marble" by John Keats or to classify it as many other old poems. "Viewing Elgin Marble" can be seen as a poem focusing on the concept of death, of course. However, due to this special poem, Keats seems to consciously write, aiming to present another meaning to the reader. If you choose to acknowledge this possible alternate meaning, you can see that this poem violates the strict Keats poetry; instead it can be regarded as a deliberately failed poem I will. Internal state capability

John Keats' s "Seeing Elgin Marble" was a sonnet written during a visit to the British Museum after purchasing marble statues originally belonging to the parthenon temple in Athens. This poem contains a series of potential tensions and conflicts, all of them are obvious in the words and images of poetry. However, unlike other sonnets, where conflicts are often resolved at the end, this sonnet leaves a permanent hopeless feel, which reveals internal confusion of the speaker itself.