...margin-sand large foot-marks went, No further than to where his feet had stray'd, 16 And slept there since. Upon the sodden ground His old right hand lay nerveless, listless, dead, Unsceptred; and his realmless eyes were closed; While his bow'd head seem'd list'ning to the Earth,...

...margin-sand large foot-marks went, No further than to where his feet had strayed, And slept there since. Upon the sodden ground His old right hand lay nerveless, listless, dead, Unsceptred; and his realmless eyes were closed; While his bowed head seemed list'ning to the Earth,...

...margin-sand large foot-marks went, No further than to where his feet had stray'd, And slept there since. Upon the sodden ground His old right hand lay nerveless, listless, dead, Unsceptred ; and his realmless eyes were closed ; While his buw'd head seem'd list'ning to the Earth,...

...margin-sand large foot-marks went, No further than to where his feet had stray 'd, And slept there since. Upon the sodden ground His old right hand lay nerveless, listless, dead, Unsceptred; and his realmless eyes were closed; While his bow'd head seem'd listening to the Earth,...

...his reasoning when reading, as it is to respond to Keats' sense perception of dethroned Saturn when Upon the sodden ground His old right hand lay nerveless, listless, dead, Unsceptred; and his realmless eyes were closed. Keats' sensuous impression is identified with the thing...

...retreat with which Keats begins, Saturn, the king of the Titans, has come — a fallen, more epic Lear: Upon the sodden ground His old right hand lay nerveless, listless, dead, Unsceptred; and his realmless eyes were closed. Thea, Hyperion's spouse, approaches him, a "listening...

...margin-sand large foot-marks went, No further than to where his feet had strayed, And slept there since. Upon the sodden ground His old right hand lay nerveless, listless, dead, Unsceptred; and his realmless eyes were closed, While his bowed head seemed listening to the earth,...

...fall of the Titans. The realmless Saturn is described as being "quiet as a stone" ; lines 17-18 read: "Upon the sodden ground / His old right hand lay nerveless, listless, dead." See also, for example, Thomas Mann's short story about Schiller, "Schwere Stunde" : "Zuweilen brauchte...

...margin-sand large foot-marks went, No further than to where his feet had strayed, And slept there since. Upon the sodden ground His old right hand lay nerveless, listless, dead, Unsceptred; and his realmless eyes were closed; While his bowed head seemed listening to the Earth,...

...the poem interdicts speech, language, poetry and prefigures the dead hand of Saturn four lines later: Upon the sodden ground His old right hand lay nerveless, listless, dead, Unsceptred (1, 17-19). In poems written two years later, Keats twice figured the hand as a synecdoche...