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Son of the old Moon-mountains African! Chief of the Pyramid and Crocodile! We call thee fruitful, and that very while A desert fills our seeing's inward span: Nurse of swart nations since the world began, Art thou so fruitful? or dost thou beguile Such men to honour thee, who, worn with toil, Rest for a space 'twixt Cairo and Decan? O may dark fancies err! They surely do; 'Tis ignorance that makes a barren waste Of all beyond itself. Thou dost bedew Green rushes like our rivers, and dost taste The pleasant sunrise. Green isles hast thou too, And to the sea as happily dost haste.
Absolutley fantastic poem!!!!! How can you write a poem like that, i wold love to be in your choes writinfg those types of beautiufl poems!
This poem was written late at night on February 4, 1818 in a poetry writing contest between Keats and Shelley. Leigh Hunt gave the two poets fifteen minutes to produce a sonnet on the subject of the Nile. This is Keats' sonnet from that night.
This poem bonds so much with nature, written with so much heart! One of the best poems ever.. Inspiring and develops attitude towards nature..
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this poem is an tought of Sir John keats who was bon in the 18th century. He wrote this poem because he was in a situa tion to write it so it was the greatest poem of Sir John Keats.......
Theme of To The Nile
Sir John Keats has urged to think beauty of the Nile river which is flowing through Africa, Cairo and Decan. Black people had toiled fertile the land. Their attempt area win attraction of the world nation. Today these great nation no more. They were rest for a space. Today have no see these great nation work. Only green rushes like rivers.
English literature
This poem written by John Keats. This poem mainly build up by the Nile river. In the first line he explains the river as heaven. Because The mountain is filled with snow,cold andsurrounded by beautifull nature. Here the poet provides majority to river nile. Because he says the river is the chief of animated and inanimated things. The river provide protection to two nations.
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this poem was written by a famous poet called john keats he address in this poem about the flowing river nile this poem has 14 line it is called as a sonnet it has 2 parts they are octave & sestet personification , inversion & methaphor are the poetry thechniques it is very interresting poem for all students
to the nile
Keats in this poem presents two images of the Nile. First, in the octave he points out how it is venerated and feared by the black nations juxtaposing it with heaven ,the son of the old moon -mountain and in the sestet he brings it out as any other ordinary river with natural beauty.
English Litreature
The poem To the Nile is really an amazing poem by John Keats. Keats sensitivity to beautiful objects,birds and human could be remarkable in this poem. This is an petrachian or Italian sonet with the rhyming pattern "abbaabbacdcdcd" . First eight lines are considered as OCTAVE and the last six lines are considered as SESTET. The poem is very raverential at the beginning. Nile is a river which irrigates water for everything. Its is honoured as a god by them.The writer is casting the doubt of the fruitfulness of the river in the last three lines of the octave and he clears it in sestet part. This poem is really interesting to study!
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the poet presents two images of the nile , in first as "that of myth and legend " as a holy river which fertilized desert and built ancient civilizations . in the past people who laboured under the hot sun and had to travel thousand of miles in the desert , deified the nile next as "as an ordinary river " like any other watering the land and making it lush. from its shores sprang swart nations perhaps referring to the egyptians who held sway over the nile valley for centuries
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perspective of the Nile
In the first eight lines of the poem (the octave), the poet gives a broad sweep of the Nile-a
historical and mythical vision. He deifies it by personification. The Nile is no ordinary river. It
is the son of the African moon- mountains (connoting the heavens).Rising from the snowcapped
Deccan plateau, it flows across the desert. It has nursed swarthy nations (dark skinned
Egyptians and Nubians who were strong military personnel). Apparently the power and the
capacity of the Nile had been exaggerated. But in the sestet (the last six lines), the poet shows a
very real vision of the Nile as a river watering and making the land lush.
To The Nile
Please explain the last line of the octave: "O may dark fancies err! They surely do;"
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to The Nile
At the beginning the poet dedicates the river Nile as a very powerful god who gave lives to Egyptians. But then after he understands that it is a myth and then paves the path to the reality by saying that Nile also same as other rivers.
The sonnet to the nile by John keats is really a beautiful poem that is of more mythical and legendary. In the octave section of the poem Keats regards the river as a god who has blessed the Egyptians who had led a hard life among the deserts.Using pronouns such as thou thee etc the poet has personified the river as a god.The poet has expressed the mythical and legendary views in the poem to remind the readers of…
Read the whole commentThe sonnet to the nile by John keats is really a beautiful poem that is of more mythical and legendary. In the octave section of the poem Keats regards the river as a god who has blessed the Egyptians who had led a hard life among the deserts.Using pronouns such as thou thee etc the poet has personified the river as a god.The poet has expressed the mythical and legendary views in the poem to remind the readers of the ancient Egyptian civilization which was a great one in the human history.Although he has defied the river in the section of the octave, he expressed his doubt about it, that The Nile is no more than other rivers In the sestet of the poem Keats deals with the doubt whether the river fruitful but it makes the vast deserts fruitful with its watwr/
To the Nile
The poem "To the Nile" is a very beautiful and thought provoking poem by John Keats. This poem is a sonnet and according to the rhyming pattern we can divide this poem into 3 stanzas. There are 2 quartets and 1 sestet. According to the meaning we can divide it into 2 parts. In the first part the poet appreciates, venerates, respects it thinking as a god. But in the second part he looks upon it as an ordinary river.He says that this river also does the things that other rivers do and because of this this is a normal river. So in the second part this poet conveys a realistic picture of the river, Nile.