...supplies Keats with his epigraph - Keats creates instead a poetry of pleasure: looking over his landscape, "I was lighthearted, / And many pleasures to my vision...posey / Of luxuries bright, milky, soft and rosy" (11. 25-28). We get a typical Cockney near pun here on "posey" and Keats's favorite word for poetry,...

...wie er sich anschickt, die Schönheiten der Natur nach seinen Wünschen zusammenzustellen (27-28): So I straightway began to pluck a posey Of luxuries bright, milky, soft and rosy. Er baut einen "locus amoenus" nach seinem Geschmack auf (29-46): A bush of May flowers with the bees...

...clear: I gazed awhile, and felt as light, and free As though the fanning wings of Mercury Had played upon my heels: I was light-hearted, And many pleasures...a posey Of luxuries bright, milky, soft and rosy. (11. 13-18) Such possessiveness is apparently warranted by nature's own doings; the sweet peas, for...

...their quivering shades. When the pleasures awakened by the summer day had started to his vision he straightway began to pluck a posey Of luxuries bright, milky, soft and rosy. Lastly, on rising from the trance in which he had felt, rather than thought, out his career, he resolved...