My reflection

I started this blog for four days and it was a very fruitful experience.
 I try to understand John Keats's words and to elaborate his poetry and his ideas and to put it down in words. During the process, I found out some of my previous interpretation of his poems are not correct. Take "Where is the poet?" as an example.  " This is a man with a man is an equal, " Before, I thought he meant the poet treats every one the same, no matter he is rich or poor, high status or low in class. The concept of non- discrimination. Then I read his letter about the Chemeleon Poet with no self and continueouslly fills in others. Now I thought " with a man is an equal " means the poet can identify with every one.
 An other example, A Song of Opposite, I  try hard to think how to welcome joy and welcome sorrow. And try to give some answers. Then I reread the poem and found the tone of this poem is just playful and is not in any serious sense or about any philosophy for life. I also read his letter to John Taylor which he shared his axiom on writing poetry: " 1st. I think poetry should surprise by a fine excess,and not by singularity" And this axiom is exactly shown in A Song of Opposite.  So it is good to write and to reread what I wrote and to correct my thought so that I can more understand John Keats. During the writing process, it is also a thinking process. I am more aware of the ideas of mine and those of John Keats. It is important to differentiate and to write clearly what is my own ideas and what is his.
By writing this blog, I find a good way to learn to think and to write and to appreciate John Keats more and deeper.