.." As the youth is in a constant state of seeking, eternally about to experience the joy of a first kiss.

Relatable Human Emotion

Though Keats means for the symbols to be expressed as unknown through the expression of curiosity about who these individuals might be: "What leaf-fringed legend haunts about thy shape/

Of deities or mortals, or of both,/

In Tempe or the dales of Arcady?/

What men or gods are these? What maidens loth? / What mad pursuit? What struggle to escape?

What pipes and timbrels? What wild ecstasy?" This device makes the images even more approachable, as the individual viewer can then imagine the depictions as anyone or anything, even when the material is ancient. The modern viewer might not know what god is depicted in the eternal art but he or she can apply any modern character, perhaps even an individual he or she knows. It...
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