Written In Disgust Of Vulgar Superstition

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Written in Disgust of Vulgar Superstition





The subject of John Keats "Written in Disgust of Vulgar Superstition" has to do with the opposition of religion and what people do to seek their "religious enlightenment". It seems more as if the theme is based on his personal dislike of religion and the things people do for religion. Keats suggestion that a preachers sermon tears you from "Fireside joys" and "Lydian airs" makes it seem as if the people in church do not want to be there, which is most likely not the case. He is trying to make his point about what he is speaking of by trying to make the reader agree with him. Which might work with …show more content…

On lines two and three of "Written in Disgust of Vulgar Superstition" Keats says "calling the people to some other prayers, some other gloominess, more dreadful cares." This image of people flocking to prayers so that their heads can be filled with nonsense (dreadful cares) which they do not need is the initial bash on church by Keats. From these two lines, it is obvious right away that the writer is no too fond of religion and the morals it preaches. He apparently feels as if church is a bunch of superstitious people trying to implant these ideas into public minds about how to live their life. Before you even begin to read his poem it is obvious of his dislike for something by the title "Written in Disgust of Vulgar Superstition", you can not tell exactly what his dislike is for until you begin reading. Then the images on lines two and three make you start thinking that his "disgust of superstition" could be a disgust of religious superstition. I feel that it is those images that set the tone for the rest of the …show more content…

Symbols like "The church bells toll a melancholy round" and "That fresh flowers will grow" present a rather humorous sense of irony in the poem. Here he is talking about "gloominess" and "More hearkening to the sermon's horrid sound" when he throws in melancholy round bells and fresh flowers, that is irony at its best. I find it funny that he describes how church rips you away form fireside joys and lydian airs and that the mind of man must be bound in some black spell and yet to start of the poem he uses a positive note, "The church bells toll a melancholy round", and to help end it he uses a positive note, "That fresh flower will grow". Both of these quotes seem out of place considering how Keats has described other things in his poem but that is what makes them

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