![]() ![]() The tour was filled with highs and lows, many of which are detailed in letters. For a time, he also walked with his brother and his wife. He traveled through Scotland, Ireland, and the Lake District along with one of his close friends. ‘A Song About Myself’ was inspired by a walking tour that Keats began in June of 1818. The poem ends on this note, creating a nice moral for a young reader to consider. This is something that surprised and left him somewhat in shock. Weights, distances, and people were exactly alike. ![]() When he got there, he realized that everything was very similar to the country he’d just left. In the last stanza, the poet returns to the image of the child walking north to Scotland. The following stanza is about the child’s love of fishing and how he’d keep the fish in a washing tub. There, he’s seen “witches” and “ditches” and more. In the second stanza, he spends time talking about the boy’s love for poetry, another clear reference to the poet’s own interests, and how he wanted to disappear into the mountains and write. Keats uses the humorous description of the boy following his “nose” there. He packed a lot into his small bag and set out exactly when and where he chose. In the first stanza of ‘A Song About Myself,’ the speaker begins by describing a naughty young boy who decided to pack up his bag and travel to the north, to Scotland. ![]() ‘ A Song About Myself’ by John Keats is a light-hearted, nonsensical poem in which the speaker describes a boy’s travels, habits, and eccentricities. ![]()
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