"A sense of real things come doubly strong, / And, like a muddy stream, would bear along / My soul to nothingness."
— Keats, John (1795-1821)
Author
Work Title
Date
1817
Metaphor
"A sense of real things come doubly strong, / And, like a muddy stream, would bear along / My soul to nothingness."
Metaphor in Context
The visions all are fled--the car is fled
Into the light of heaven, and in their stead
A sense of real things come doubly strong,
And, like a muddy stream, would bear along
My soul to nothingness: but I will strive
Against all doubtings, and will keep alive
The thought of that same chariot, and the strange
Journey it went.
(ll. 155-62)
Into the light of heaven, and in their stead
A sense of real things come doubly strong,
And, like a muddy stream, would bear along
My soul to nothingness: but I will strive
Against all doubtings, and will keep alive
The thought of that same chariot, and the strange
Journey it went.
(ll. 155-62)
Categories
Provenance
Reading Clifford Siskin's The Historicity of Romantic Discourse. New York: OUP, 1988. p. 181.
Citation
Keats, John. Complete Poems. Ed. Jack Stillinger. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1982.
Date of Entry
12/15/2007
