Melancholy

Recently I have been reading alot of John Cage, and I have found the way he writes through different texts brilliant. By using his methods I am able to manipulate the words and lines of my favourite poets into something even more emotive, altering their meanings through editing. I change the rhythm and rhyme scheme. Experimenting. Tell me what you think?


Ode on Melancholy By Keats

No, no! … not to Lethe, neither …….
……………………for its poisonous wine;
…..suffer thy pale forehead to be kissed
By night……….………………………….
…………………………………………….
Nor …………………… death…………..
Your mournful …………………………
……………….. in your sorrow's mysteries;
…………………………come too drowsily,
And drown the……….anguish of the soul

.……………….the melancholy……shall fall
Sudden ……………. like a weeping cloud,
………………………………………………..........
And hides ………………………………….......
…………….thy sorrow……a morning rose,
……………………………………………….
………………………………………….......
.….if thy mistress some.……anger shows,
Emprison her soft hand, and let her rave,
And feed.…………..upon her peerless eyes

.…………Beauty -- Beauty that must die;
……………whose hand is ever at his lips
………………….. aching Pleasure…….
Turning to poison …………………………
…….in the very temple of delight
Veiled Melancholy has her ………………
……………. none save……………………….
Can burst ………………………………………
His soul shall taste the sadness of her might,
And be among her cloudy trophies hung.