Romantic period analysis The beauty of nature and its ability to set you free‚ the powers of imagination‚ individuality and a rebellion to tyranny are some of the ideas the romantic period brought to society’s attention. While rejecting neoclassical views of order‚ reason‚ tradition‚ society and formal diction. Romanticism allowed people to get away from the constrained rational views of life and concentrate on an emotional and sentimental side of humanity. The definition of poetry by
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In Romantic poetry‚ lonely feelings associated with love are often seen. Through this idea‚ many authors were able to express how lonely they felt in society because of the absence of love in their life. In “La Belle Dam Sans Merci”‚ Keats uses metonymy‚ imagery‚ and symbolism to convey how loneliness associates with love. Metonymy is used to express in vivid detail the loneliness of the knight and the emptiness in his life. As the knight walks through the swamp he observes
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With "Ode to a Nightingale‚" the speaker in the poem begins with an in-depth exploration of the mortality of human life. In this ode‚ the briefness of life and the tragedy of old age is set against the eternal continuation of the smooth music of the nightingale. Hearing the song of the bird‚ the speaker longs to run away from his usual life in the human world and join the magical nightingale. His first thought is to reach the bird’s state through alcohol consumption‚ but as the poem goes on he
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"Ode to the West Wind‚" Shelley invokes Zephyrus‚ the west wind‚ to free his "dead thoughts" and words‚ "as from an unextinguished hearth / Ashes and sparks" (63‚ 66-67)‚ in order to prophesy a renaissance among humanity‚ "to quicken a new birth" (64). This ode‚ one of a few personal lyrics published with his great verse drama‚ "Prometheus Unbound‚" identifies Shelley with his heroic‚ tormented Titan. By stealing fire from heaven‚ Prometheus enabled humanity to found civilization. In punishment‚
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Life is like walking through Paradise with peas in your shoes. CHARLES EDWARD JERNINGHAM‚ The Maxims of Marmaduke Life is for each man a solitary cell whose walls are mirrors. EUGENE O’NEILL‚ Lazarus Laughed Live on‚ survive‚ for the earth gives forth wonders. It may swallow your heart‚ but the wonders keep on coming. You stand before them bareheaded‚ shriven. What is expected of you is attention. SALMAN RUSHDIE‚ The Ground Beneath Her Feet Life itself‚ too‚ is forever turning an infinitely
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of this impression becomes a constant source of joy. Beautiful objects are a source of inspiration for poets to compose poetry. Poets are more moved by beautiful sights than people of ordinary imagination. Keats was a great lover of beauty in all its varied forms. In most of his poems‚ Keats appreciate different forms of beauty. The dancing daffodils seen by Wordsworth during his travel left a mark in his memory. He composed a poem on daffodils after four years of that visit but he felt the same
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If they are inherently good‚ bad or both‚ this affects the way they and the reader respond - either with shame or without. Miller’s ‘Death of a Salesman’ is arguably entirely based around the Loman family’s collective shame‚ whereas whether or not Keats’ character’s in the poems ‘Eve of St Agnes’ and ‘Isabella’ feel any is decidedly more unclear. The choices that Madeline and Porphyro make in the ‘Eve of St Agnes’ - going against their families wishes‚ Porphyro dubiously manipulating
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“ The only means of strengthening one’s intellect is to make-up one’s mind about nothing- to let the mind be a thoroughfare for all thoughts” – John Keats. John Keats says‚“ The only means of strengthening one’s intellect is to make-up one’s mind about nothing- to let the mind be a thoroughfare for all thoughts.” This quote is saying‚ the only way to become smarter is to listen to all opinions‚ and to be open to all ideas (although many readers have different opinions as to what this is saying)
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Ode on a Grecian Urn Keats’ poetry depicts an enchanted world of beauty. It is a world of melody‚ imagination‚ sensuous delight. It also resounds with a note of melancholy and tragic sense of human suffering. He is often classed with Shakespeare and his poems attain the perfection of classic art. It has a felicity of expression‚ excellence of vision and wealth of imagery‚ which are purely Keatsian. Unlike Lord Byron or Shelley‚ he does not have an intellectual attitude towards
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The Cambridge ladies who live in furnished souls are unbeautiful and have comfortable minds ( also‚ with the church’s protestant blessings daughters‚ un scented shapeless spirited) they believe in Christ and Longfellow‚ both dead are invariably interested in so many things_ at the present writing one still finds delighted fingers knitting for the is it Poles? Perhaps. While permanent faces coyly bandy scandal of Mrs. N and Professor D. ...the Cambridge ladies do not care‚ above Cambridge
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