Keats’ poems were very difficult. Ode on a Grecian Urn was
the easier of the two. Keats’ describes how time is frozen on the urn and how
while looking at it, he imagines the scenes with a vividness unique to the
imagination. The two sonnets were extremely difficult. I looked up the
references. Haydon is a writer. Helicon is a mountain in Greece, and nobody
knows what Hesperian shine is. My guess: Keats is playing on the Greeks spirit
of belief. He is fascinated with Greek mythology. He is especially fascinated
with how it is portrayed in the Elgin Marbles. Keats is lamenting to Haydon,
yearning for spirituality. Philosophically, Yeats brings up the gulf between
man and the divine.
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