To One who has been Long in City Pent by John Keats Questions and Answers

To One who has been Long in City Pent by John Keats - Questions and Answers, Study Guide:-

Question:-
Why does the city-dweller think that the day has passed very quickly?

Answer:-
The city-dweller has fully enjoyed a day’s outing in the country. In the evening, he morns that such a pleasant day has passed so quickly like a dew-drop that falls down on the ground silently through the ether.
The day has neither passed quickly nor slowly. The city-dweller has enjoyed it so much that he cannot understand how it has been spent.

Question:-
What are the feelings of the city-dweller when he returns home after spending the day in the countryside?

Answer:-
After a long stay in the city Keats the romantic poet is delighted to move and breathe in the clear blue sky fills his heart with joy. There is no dust and smoke, no din and bustle as in the city. He prays to God in gratitude. When he feels tired he lies down on a bed of soft wavy grass and reads a sweet love-story. He then thinks himself as the happiest man on earth.

To One who has been Long in City Pent by John Keats Nature Poem

John Keats is one of my most favourite English poets, in fact, my most favourite English poet. I love very much the poems written by John Keats. “To One who has been Long in City Pent” is one of his romantic poems. The poem shows his love to nature.

To One who has been Long in City Pent
by John Keats

To one who has been long in city pent,
    'Tis very sweet to look into the fair
    And open face of heaven,--to breathe a prayer
Full in the smile of the blue firmament.
Who is more happy, when, with heart's content,
    Fatigued he sinks into some pleasant lair
    Of wavy grass, and reads a debonair
And gentle tale of love and languishment?
Returning home at evening, with an ear
    Catching the notes of Philomel,--an eye
Watching the sailing cloudlet's bright career,
    He mourns that day so soon has glided by:
E'en like the passage of an angel's tear
    That falls through the clear ether silently.