Please provide the answer to these questions very urgently with reference to the poem "A Thing of Beauty"
Dear student,
The answers are as follows:
The answers are as follows:
- Human beings become unhappy and disillusioned with life as they come to observe the banality of their own existence. The dearth of noble natures, of gloomy days and unhealthy ways bog down the human spirit. It brings a sense of despondence because the search for beauty amidst that gloom and monotony becomes doubtful. One begins to wonder if the exercise of trying to find beauty in this world is a worthwhile quest or not.
- Keats mentions various objects of nature as a source of joy in his poem. Some of them are the flowers, the sun, the moon, the trees and clear streams.
- Grandeur is associated with mighty dead because they are our legendary heroes. The heroic struggles of their life, as well as death, are a source of inspiration for the new generation. The beauty of their heroic deeds will never fade away. Thus, the mighty dead can be a thing of beauty.