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    knowledge of death forthcoming. In the poem by Keats‚ he expresses that he is frightened of the fact that he will not accomplish any of his desires and wants. However‚ being hope and recognizing the potential of life he comes to the conclusion that his goals are meaningless. On the flip side‚ Longfellow is uncertain of his future and mourns inaction. Ultimately‚ Longfellow creates a grim‚ petrified tone‚ while Keats is more optimistic. The poems between Keat and Longfellow compare starting from the

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    What is it that causes us to be so busy that we ignore the natural beauty that life presents to us every single day? There is so much for us to do everyday that we rarely take notice to what is surrounding us‚ be it if it’s even the snow that’s sparsely scattered about the town and countryside. A day can even go by so quickly that we simply don’t have enough time to see what we want to see. Those who study nature or writers who write about it would agree that we are in dire need of real and or imaginative

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    with nature’s beauty. In some of the odes eternal beauty is achieved by death‚ and in others the present moment is the opportunity to appreciate nature’s beauty in a more passionate way. Possibly the fact that John Keats had been witness to the slow and painful deaths of many close relatives from tuberculosis‚ as had happened with his younger brother Tom the previous winter of the composition of the odes‚ it has made him more concerned with these three “enemies”. On the other hand Keats was in love

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    Fears” and “Mezzo Cammin” by John Keats and Henry Wadsworth Longfellow respectively‚ have similar themes such as the inevitability of death and the fear of living unfulfilled and inadequate lives. John Keats fears that he will live a life of inadequacy and fail to accomplish all of his dreams‚ but he understands that his goals are miniscule in the larger scope of life. Conversely‚ Longfellow maintains a morbid view of death and of the future itself‚ while Keats is more captivated by the human experience

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    Beauty is Goodness‚ Goodness Beauty”: Shelley’s “Awful Shadow” and “Ethical Sublime” Chung-hsuan Tung Intergrams 8.2-9.1 (2008): http://benz.nchu.edu.tw/~intergrams/082-091/082-091-tung.pdf Abstract Truth‚ Beauty‚ and Goodness are three great human ideals belonging to epistemological‚ aesthetic‚ and ethical categories‚ respectively. all other Forms or Ideas including Truth and Beauty. But they are often not easily differentiated. For Plato Goodness is the supreme Form or Idea governing

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    Q- Keats wrote that he struggled to settle his mind on women‚ by turns adoring them as angels and reviling them as whores. Discuss Keats’s attitude to women in at least three poems in light of this opinion. Keats once wrote in a letter to Fanny Brawne “You have ravish ’d me away by a Power I cannot resist: and yet I could resist till I saw you; and even since I have seen you I have endeavoured often ‘to reason against the reasons of my Love’- I can do that no more”. The quote‚ from John Ford’s

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    Truth and Beauty of Passing Time Neglect‚ death‚ and immortality are powerful themes of not only Romantic poets‚ but poets throughout every age of history. Countless works of poetry dwell on the seemingly inconsequential passing of life‚ while still more endeavor to discover something so significant that it can entrench itself into the folds of history as truly immortal. Two Romantic poems that engage wonderfully with these themes are Percy Bysshe Shelley’s “Ozymandias” and John Keats’ “Ode on a

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    On Fame by John Keats

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    Close Reading Assignment: John Keats: “On Fame” John Keats talks about fame and the desire of people to posses it. He compares fame to a woman and the desire of people for fame is compared to men’s lust to women. John Keats as the speaker presents an “as matter-of-fact” tone. The speaker gives the reader a sense of knowledge about what fame is. He seems to know what he’s talking about and it seems like he’s giving a lecture about it. The speaker achieves this tone by his elaborate comparison between

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    Life Is Never Sweet When Things Fall Apart Change is something that is very hard to accept. Especially when you are use to everything going your way. The story Life Is Sweet at Kumansenu‚ by Abioseh Nicol‚ is about a woman named Bola who had six children. Unfortunately‚ all of the six children ended up dying young. After she gave birth to her sixth child‚ a medicine man demanded her to break her dead son’s bones so he couldn’t come back to mock her. However‚ she refuses to fulfill

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    introduced many prominent poets to the time period‚ one of these poets being John Keats. He “wrote some of the greatest English language poems including” Bright Star (Merriman 1). Although his life was very short‚ he left an imprint for poets such as Lord Alfred Tennyson and Wilfred Owen (Ziraldo 1). His work has been characterized as containing “elaborate word choice and sensual imagery” (1). Additionally‚ his poetry has been identified as “varied‚ intense‚ and rich in texture and experience‚” despite

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