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John Keats
1856
Poem
Allegory
The Fall of Hyperion is told in the first-person perspective and is related by an unnamed speaker.
The poem is written in a mixture of present and past tense. The present tense is used during the speaker's general musings, and the past tense is used when the poem becomes more narrative.
John Keats's The Fall of Hyperion: A Dream is an allegory that follows a speaker's journey toward spiritual truth and occurs in a dreamlike state. The poem's title derives from the downfall of the Titan sun god Hyperion.
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