John Keats lived his life with influences coming through death and destruction. One of the most powerful influences in his life was his childhood school John Clarks Academy. There he was introduced to literature by Reverend John Clarke. Clarke showed him different things about life and politics. Charles Cowden Clark‚ the reverend’s son‚ was eight years older than Keats. As a mentor to Keats‚ Charles helped Keats develop his own personality. The death of Keats’s mother in 1810 caused a great impact
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Keats composed the ’Ode on a Grecian Urn’‚ based on a sonnet written by Wordsworth in 1811. The theme of transience and permanence‚ which struck Keats in Wordsworth’s poetry‚ forms the leading theme in the Odes. The ode‚ ’To Autumn’‚ may be seen as a temporary ’bridge’ in the debate between the two states‚ in this case symbolised by the seasons. A reprieve is achieved‚ although the problem is not solved‚ "Where are the songs of Spring Ay‚ Where are they? Think not of them..." In ’Ode to a Nightingale’
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terminal tuberculosis‚ Keats focused on death and its inevitability in his work. For Keats‚ small‚ slow acts of death occurred every day‚ and he chronicled these small mortal occurrences. The end of a lover’s embrace‚ the images on an ancient urn‚ the reaping of grain in autumn—all of these are not only symbols of death‚ but instances of it. Examples of great beauty and art also caused Keats to ponder mortality‚ as in “On Seeing the Elgin Marbles” (1817). As a writer‚ Keats hoped he would live long
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John Keats wrote many poems that had similar themes. Much of his work is considered to be a key part of Romantic Poetry. To understand one of his poems it is necessary to look beyond it to his other works and personal life. One poem worth just such a look is "Ode to a Grecian Urn". This poem contains not only aspects of his writing which are reflected in his other works but some certain stylistic elements that reflect aspects of his personal life. The stylistic elements mentioned also appear in
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John Keats and William Wordsworth ironically wrote two sonnets about the sonnet with contrasting attitudes. Both authors have different ideas and feelings about the constraints imposed on the poet by the sonnet form. Keats‚ although he feels negatively about the constraints imposed by the sonnet format‚ he writes the sonnet in his own creative unidentifiable form. Wordsworth however‚ tells the reader that he uses the format of the sonnet as a refuge and solace from "too much liberty." Both authors
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Truth versus Immortality in John Keats’ “Ode on a Grecian Urn” In John Keats’ “Ode on a Grecian Urn‚” the speaker admires the immortality and excitement of life depicted on an urn‚ before realizing that the truth of life and mortality is preferable to static eternal existence. The speaker suggests that the young figures depicted on the urn are frozen in time forever‚ and therefore will eternally be young‚ carefree‚ and beautiful. It’s suggested that such immortality is inferior to mortal existence
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When I have Fears is a poem written by John Keats. In this poem Keats expresses his feeling of fear about the possibility of die young and the consequences that this fact would suppose‚ and how he realizes about the real situation. The title indicates that Keats did not consider himself inmortal‚ he knew that even though he acomplish his goal of write all his thoughts‚ one of the fears he feels. The poem is a sonnet structured following the Shakespearean model with three quatrains and a couplet
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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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March 3‚ 2013 Summary/ Response Journal Entry 07 In comparing Samuel Taylor Coleridge‚ Percy Bysshe Shelley and John Keats I am privy to their very different worlds yet uniquely resembling epitomes in their writing(s). Coleridge‚ intellectually brilliant and highly learned‚ was a child prodigy. He was reading by the age of 3 and earned recognition for his writings in college (360) Shelley came from a wealthy aristocratic family English family.(395) He too gained recognition for his writings
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Have Fears That I May Cease to Be by John Keats) A morbid‚ yet necessary thought. What is one to accomplish before their natural life ends. Everyone has intentions‚ though‚ intentions evidently don’t always turn into reality if one does not have a plan. In When I Have Fears That I May Cease to Be‚ by John Keats‚ in this sonnet‚ the speaker‚ John Keats‚ despairs over the lost opportunities for creativity and love that his life’s brevity may yield. John Keats was born in 1795 and passed away in 1821
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