The title (*) emotion, whose shrine is ironically in the "temple of Delight", can only be shattered by individuals that can "burst Joy's grape against his palate fine.
A deleted first stanza of this poem described a hero's quest to find the title figure in the underworld, which involves "build[ing] a bark of dead men's bones" and using a dragon's tail as a rudder, though a reference to Lethe still remains in its current opening line. The title figure maintains the company of a figure "whose hand is ever at his lips bidding adieu", and her victims are described as "her cloudy trophies hung." This poem advises the reader to "make not your rosary of yew-berries" nor to consume "the ruby grape of Prosperpine", an allusion to suicide. The title (*) emotion, whose shrine is ironically in the "temple of Delight", can only be shattered by individuals that can "burst Joy's grape against his palate fine." The shortest of its author's odes, this poem tells the reader to "glut they sorrow on a morning rose", one of the few direct allusions to the title emotion. For 10 points, name this Keatsian ode imploring the reader to seek joy rather than the titular sad emotion.
A deleted first stanza of this poem described a hero's quest to find the title figure in the underworld, which involves "build[ing] a bark of dead men's bones" and using a dragon's tail as a rudder, though a reference to Lethe still remains in its current opening line.
"Ode on Melancholy"