John Keats in his Italian Sonnet, On Seeing the Elgin Marbles shows the deterioration of mans body through synechdoche and metonomy to empahasize that "Fueds of the Heart."
Synechdoche presents itself clearly in this poem to highlight the disjointedness of the physical state showing that when man is segmented and not seen in his full colors he subjects himself to tourment. Words such as "spirit" "heart" and "brain" demonstate how cohesiveness does not exist within this man. The tourmant becaomes prevelant through the symbol of the clouds and weeping.
Also Keats employs a poignant example of metonomy in his opening line, "Mortality is an unwilling sleep." From the word "sleep" the reader can derive that the narrator is in a place of malcontent because sleep can be inturrpreted as death. Keats demonstates an ungrateful tone because paraphrased he basically is saying i didnt choose to live and this life you cannot even call living because it suffers from so much turmoil. Another example of metonomy is when Keats uses diction like "steep" and "pinnacle." These inclines tell the narrator that, "harships tell me i must die." From these two words alone a new emotion of terror and hopelessness is aroused inside the reader.
Through synechdoche and metonomy Keats utilizes every oppurtunity he gets in his writing to capture the picture he is trying to paint. The over all message which he attempts to convey is this: What makes your spirit weak and body disjointed and how can you repair it?
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