Poet John Keats wrote about the compassion of mortal relationships, a metaphor for all life. Whether he was describing art on cold stone or people and their pets, his words reflect the complications, the sorrows, the joys of life in general.
Dear Ones,
This paradoxical classic poem is considered one of the greatest odes in the English language. Its imagery of life and death the poet captured on Earth–man's [short for human)] triumphs and sorrows from natural death or those from sickness or strife from gun.
Whether in art, portraits or photographs, people in all forms of how they lived never change. They all stay the same in memory as they were depicted. Forever they are engraved in our minds and etched for eternity on beautiful works of art. Cherished moments in the silence of thought.
Keats' passion expresses "Forever they will love and be fair." As the trees also "bid the Spring adieu," they, too, cannot change their appearance in the autumn of our souls. "Truth is beauty, and beauty truth. That is all ye need to know." Mortals are we all, but our tears in saying goodbye to our loved ones, are also tears of joy having had them in reality and now spiritual through the pictures of life.
Mame,
historian-author of many poems and book Gentle Heart, the Life of Stephen Foster helensmith1.blogspot.com
