What is the summary of i stood up tip toe upon a little hill by john keats?

Answer 1

it's such a long poem- I never hope to read it in all my life- I mean, who would be such a fool as to write a poem 242 lines long? Many people write so, but their poems are hardly ever read- because of their longevity.

Answer 2

The first poem in John Keats's 1817 Poems was probably the last to be completed, and stands as a sort of monument to Leigh Hunt's tastes in seventeenth-century poetry. The volume is dedicated to Hunt, whose tutelage is also celebrated in Keats's concluding "Sleep and Poetry."

"I stood tip-toe" derives from the eighteenth-century "rhapsody," itself descended from Milton's L'Allegro and Il Penseroso - one might compare this ode with Thomas Warton's very popular descriptive odes in blank verse or octosyllabic couplets. Keats drops the usual formalities, though something like an address to the goddess does appear at the center of the poem: "O Maker of sweet poets, dear delight | Of this fair world, and all its gentle livers; | Spangler of clouds, halo of crystal rivers, | Mingler with leaves, and dew and tumbling streams, | Closer of lovely eyes to lovely dream, | Lover of loneliness, and wandering, | Of upcast eye, and tender pondering! | Thee must I praise above all other glories | That smile us on to tell delightful stories" p. 7.

The catalogue of mythological figures in the second half of the poem points to the seventeenth-century writers of Ovidian tales - Michael Drayton, Browne of Tavistock, Shakerley Marmion - whose metrical art Keats and Hunt had been studying. This passage corresponds to the tributes in L'Allegro and Il Penseroso where John Milton likewise salutes the English poets who had been the cynosure of his attention.

Leigh Hunt: "The first poem consists of a piece of luxury in a rural spot, ending with an allusion to the story of Endymion and to the origin of other lovely tales of mythology, on the ground suggested by Mr. Wordsworth in a beautiful passage of his Excursion. Here, and in the other largest poem, which closes the book, Mr. Keats is seen to his best advantage, and displays all that fertile power of association and imagery which constitutes the abstract poetical faculty as distinguished from every other. He wants age for a greater knowledge of humanity, but evidences of this also bud forth here and there" The Examiner (1 June 1817) 429.

George Saintsbury: "In Calidore and its induction, in 'I stood on tiptoe' and 'Sleep and Poetry' and others, we come to the most famous and important of his followings, the experiments in the enjambed decasyllabic couplet. That he took this directly from Leigh Hunt is always told, and is probably in great part true.... At the same time, the more I read the Jacobean and Caroline originals, the more convinced do I feel that Browne, Marmion, and probably Chamberlayne himself, had - whether at first or only later, but certainly before Endymion was finished - a great direct influence on Keats" History of English Prosody (1906-10) 3:118.

Answer 3

John Keats poem, I stood tiptoe upon a little hill, corresponds to the four elements, earth, fire, wind and water. These are the basics that rule and control everything.