reputation of being one of the great Romantic poets. His verse celebrates the moral influence exerted by nature on human thought and feeling. Considered one of England’s greatest poets‚ John Keats was a key element in the Romantic Movement ‚ know especially for his love of nature ‚ his poetry also resonated with deep philosophic questions. Wordsworth has secured the reputation of being one of the great Romantic poets. Although often viewed as a ’nature poet ’ ‚ his poetry is not simply concerned
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the short life span of John Keats’‚ his work best representation of Romanticism. At the age of 21‚ Keats gives up his pursuit to be a surgeon and starts to be a full-time poet. Keats change his occupation to be a poet after reading Edmund Spenser’s 16th-century epic poem The Faerie Queen‚ which leads Keats to write his poem Lines in Imitation of Spenser. Addition to Spenser’s work influencing Keats to be a poet‚ William Wordsworth and Samuel Taylor Coleridge influence Keats to change his style of
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stanza has got eleven lines. Obviously‚ there is a change of pattern which makes this odes even more interesting. The rhyme scheme of the first stanza is: ABABCDEDCCE while the rhyme scheme of the last two stanzas is: ABABCDECDDE. As one can see‚ Keats creates the first four lines of each stanza equally. After that‚ he changes the scheme. Furthermore in line 15‚ third stanza‚ the word “wind” has to be pronounced differently so that it rhymes with the word “find” two lines earlier. All these little
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Many people in today’s world are suffering due to their enhanced focus on their limitations‚ while neglecting their numerous talents‚ which causes great emotional suffering. In John Keats’s Odes‚ he developed a humble acceptance of both his limitations and talents through the immense suffering that he endured throughout his life. This view was also shown in The Breakfast Club where a brilliant young man‚ Brian Johnson‚ was upset by his inability to create a lamp in shop class so he contemplated committing
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In the poem “To Autumn‚” the author John Keats uses a multitude of poetic elements such as rhythm‚ diction‚ sound‚ imagery and voice to develop a theme that both nature and our lives follow a similar and beautiful path while living‚ even as they come close to death. The poem itself is comprised of three stanzas of similar length. Each of these stanzas describes a different part of autumn‚ the beginning‚ middle and end. The speaker in the poem acknowledges that time passes by in the poem. Furthermore
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Looking at two or more poems by William Blake consider what makes these works Romantic. “Romanticism... is an international artistic and philosophical movement that redefined the fundamental ways in which people in Western cultures thought about themselves and about their world.” Blake was born into a state of social change an ‘Age of Revolution’ and his poetry certainly reflected his strong opinion of how society was being oppressed by political and cultural influences. He believed that the
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Discuss the role of the imagination in the work of one or more Romantic poets. The 19th century witnessed a shift in the perception of literary art‚ particularly poetry. The 18th century conception of art and literature was founded upon reason‚ logic and rationality. Tradition had valued art and literature for its ability to imitate human life. This however arguably took a step back and paved the way for the 19th century view that art and literature was to established on the grounds of pure
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refined the tradition bequeathed to him by his predecessors in the Romantic Movement (especially Wordsworth‚ Byron‚ Keats‚ Shelley). Beginning in the after math of Romantic Movement‚ Tennyson’s development as a poet is a romantic progression from introverted and inert states of mind towards emancipated consciousness. The growth of consciousness‚ and the relationship between the self and the world beyond‚ are fundamental concerns of romantic poetry and poetic theory. The aesthetic implications of this
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Keats “If poetry come not as naturally as the leaves to a tree‚ it had better not come at all.” Negative capability: Keats believed that great people‚ especially poets‚ have to the ability to accept that not everything can be resolved. The truths found in the imagination access holy authority and cannot be otherwise understood. John Keats claimed that great artists possessed what he called “Negative Capability.” Such artists were “capable of being in uncertainties‚ Mysteries‚ doubts‚ without any
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‘On the sea’ by John Keats It keeps eternal whisperings around Desolate shores‚ and with its mighty swell Gluts twice ten thousand caverns‚ till the spell Of Hecate leaves them their old shadowy sound. Often ’tis in such gentle temper found‚ That scarcely will the very smallest shell Be moved for days from where it sometime fell‚ When last the winds of heaven were unbound. O ye! who have your eyeballs vexed and tired‚ Feast them upon the wideness of the Sea; O ye! whose ears are dinn’d
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