In stanza 2 Keats tries to display a long lost desire to see
a moment of happiness within his consciousness with the drug f opium. The clue
that the author desires opium towards the end of the stanza where he mentions a
liquid that opens the world he enjoys, in which he wishes to escape the reality
of the present moment. Also it appears that the stanza describes of a more
natural approach to what happiness is for Keats when he describes the desire
for the country side of the world. However, I believe Keats misunderstood
seeing the beauty of the world through opium is not the answer. Perhaps opium
opened a new world for the people who used them who wished to see an entirely
different world from the one they lived in. The time of Keats wasn’t any better
than ours apparently.
"O for a draught of vintage! that hath been" is a desire for wine and he further describes where the wine would come from. I think that stanza two is about a desire for alcohol and also about him being imaginative; he excesses some of the powers of gained through the faculty of imagination. Stanza two does describe a desire to escape from reality by means of indulging in drinking wine and perhaps getting drunk. Maybe it is a desire for opium because apparently Keats is a junkie. Stanza one talks about a desire for opium or hemlock which further suggest a desire for sedation in general.
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