John Keats, The Melancholy Young

Death is always in the mind of human beings. We usually try not to think about the moment of our death, because it causes affliction and sometimes anguish. We can not, however, avoid this issue that is so natural and unavoidable. In the poem “When I Have Fears that I may Cease to Be”, written by John Keats, death is always present. In his work he makes reference to the feeling of dying when you are young and have the whole life to enjoy it, but the adversity of our own destine is different and unlike. Keats shows us that his desire to live, to love and be famous was stronger than death. Likewise, the young poet lived under the frustration to be aware that he was losing his life every moment because of his health. Melancholy, sadness, hopeless and desire to live, all of these feelings, are part of his work, becoming this poem particularly one of the most romantic. Finally this powerful poem reminds us the feeling that being aware of our death, encourage us to live and enjoy our existence day to day.

Kubla Khan by Samuel T. Coleridge

“It is essential to poetry that it should be simple, and appeal to the elements and primary laws of nature; that it should be sensuous, and by its imagery elicit truth at a flash; that it should be impassioned, and be able to move our feelings and awaken affection”.

Poetry is clearly more than a complex art. It is in fact, the art of discovering the truth, connecting the external world with your inside. What a good poet does is to represent or externalize his or her feelings with a simple language which is full of images, colours, places and even music. And this is what the poet Samuel T. Coleridge does in his poem Kubla Khan. In his work, he includes certain poetic elements that let him known as the poet of the Supernatural. Nature, passion, fervour, music and fantasy are essential elements of his poetry.

Kubla Khan is a poem that invites the reader to another dimension, a place that is beyond of the common or ordinary world, and where the people cannot even imagine it could exist. After reading the poem, I got the feeling I was reading a love song with sounds that belong to another Universe. It is truthfully a world that it could really exists. We could realized of it, if we just open our eyes and then we will able to see that in this Earth there are places which are in front of us. However, we are so far of our human nature that we are not capable to perceive them. Nevertheless, thanks to Coleridge, he invites us to that foreign World through out his supernatural and fantastic poetry.

The Little Black Boy

The Little Black Boy is an English poem written by William Blake that makes reference to the Universal. In Blake’s work all the elements which are present evoke to the Nature. Elements such are: air, trees, sun, light, flowers, are related to the God’s world, where everyone and everything is the same at God´s eyes. In fact, it is important to mention that the mother taught her son about the love of the father God, because this one is the same as the love of any mother. In fact, it is an unconditional love. At the same time, the mother showed to her child that everyone belongs to the Earth as if we were just one.

Making reference to Blake’s poem, I have chosen The Wild Puppies by Claude Monet. In this master piece Nature is also present as in the poem. The child of the painting is guided by his mother, showing him about the marvelous and beauties that God has created for us. And, men and women are elemental part of this world.