John Keats: Force Of The Dead

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In the poem Keats starts by saying how the hand is warm and alive then cold and dead then reborn in the afterlife just to meet you again. This line from John Keats poem evokes an experience of how the living might feel the force of the dead. The presence of the dead could be an ominous feeling or the feeling of assurance. For me I got the sense of assurance when coming in contact with the dead because when I was younger I was really close with grandmother we did lots of things together when I would come visit, which was regularly because of my mother’s erratic work schedule. Suddenly the visiting stop and I soon found out it was because she had died. Even though my grandmother died I would still get the sensuous that I was being touch by her