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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John Keats’s poem‚ When I Have Fears that I May Cease to Be‚ conveys the equivocal and elusive state of our futures. Yet in the poem‚ Keats provides‚ in a traditional Romantic fashion‚ a brutal‚ but incredibly honest depiction of the world. Keats offers a reminder of the state we exist in‚ leaving us with a lesson in perspective and also in a state of discomfort. Keats’ poem begins with a dominantly apprehensive tone mitigated by an underlying hopeful voice. The first line of the poem exactly mirrors
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extract from Jane Eyre‚ by Charlotte Bronte‚ a soliloquy from Hamlet‚ by William Shakespeare and Ode to Autumn‚ by John Keats all have a number of striking similarities between them‚ as well as a few differences‚ which will be analysed to show. Unlike Hamlet and Autumn‚ the extract from Jane Eyre‚ doesn ’t have any particular argument‚ but the use of language is similar to that of Keats and to some extent Hamlet. Jane Eyre is a character existing in a narrative in the first person‚ as is Hamlet in
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Sutterfield IB English III 10 May 2012 Keats and Longfellow: Poem Comparison “When I Have Fears” by John Keats and “Mezzo Cammin” by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow provide a complex perspective of each author’s own description for impending doom‚ and how failure is an inevitable force that will consume them in the near future. Although both poems deal with a similar theme‚ the situations in which the authors have placed themselves reflect through the poems themselves. Keats‚ who speaks with little to no ardor
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internal struggle between the preference of an authentic mortality or the artificial futile immortality. As a Romantic Poet‚ Keats elaborates on the necessity of self-expression and imagination in order to understand the power of introspection and the inner workings of the mind‚ rather than through a systematic‚ scientific process. In the Poem ‘’Ode on a Grecian Urn’’ Keats explores the struggle with the bittersweet frailty of the human experience‚ largely concerning love and romance. On the other
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The names Keats and Wordsworth are to a certain extent tantamount to Romanticism‚ especially from the perspective of modern academics. To many‚ Wordsworth and Coleridge are seen as the fathers of English Romanticism as they were the first to publish literary works that were seen as romantic with Lyrical Ballads in 1798. Yet although John Keats was only born in 1795‚ he still contributed much to the Romantic Movement and is in essence regarded just as highly as William Wordsworth. One can argue
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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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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 Grecian Urn”. Although they take opposite approaches--Shelley uses “Ozymandias” to express the mutability of life‚ while Keats uses the Urn to show that art can be timeless--both poems revolve around an object struggling against the passing of time. Both “Ozymandias” and “Ode on a Grecian urn” exemplify
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Similarities and dissimilarities Though P. B. Shelley and John Keats were mutual friends‚ but they have possessed the diversified qualities in their creativity. These two are the great contributors of English Literature‚ though their lifecycle were very short. Their comparison are also little with each other‚ while each are very much similar in thoughts‚ imagination‚ creation and also their lifetime. 01) Attitude towards the Nature P. B. Shelley: Whereas older Romantic poets looked at nature as
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