John Keats‚ born in London in 1795‚ wrote the sonnet To Sleep when he was only twenty years old. In an iambic pentameter‚ the narrator talks directly to Sleep‚ asking "him" to provide escape from reality. With rimes in A-B-A-B structure‚ the author here makes a very melodic and harmonious poem. The author uses several figures of speech to address sleep in a very specific way. More over‚ it is possible that there was a relation between the context and Keat’s personal life. The author first starts
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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 the
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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 with Fanny Brawne‚ so she could have been the inspiration to appreciate the nature’s beauty in time
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Hennery Longfellow and Emily Dickson wrote books during the puritan era and they were very much alike. The themes of each authors writing are very much similar and to match. As for the mood it also is similar and much related. Both authors and their writing are very closely related in theme‚ and writing styles. Emily Dickson’s poem was an acceptance of death and very calm and carefree. The theme of her poem was based off of the human life cycle and how we must all accept death. The mood on her poem
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“The Sound of the Sea” is a sonnet by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow‚ describing the sounds of the sea and relating it to human inspiration. Through only auditory images of the sea and other powerful natural forces‚ Longfellow effectively alludes to the nature of human inspiration. Through detailed and sensory imagery‚ Longfellow communicates the subtle details of the human soul and how inspiration functions. “The Sound of the Sea” consists of fourteen lines and a particular rhyme scheme (abba abba
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John Keats poems "Ode to a Nightingale" and "Ode on a Grecian Urn" seem to have been written with the intention of describing a moment in one’s life‚ like that of the fleeting tune of a nightingale or a scene pictured on an urn. Within each of these moments a multitude of emotions are established‚ with each morphing from one to another very subtly. What is also more subtle about these two poems is their differences. While they do touch on very similar topics‚ the objects used to personify Keats’ ideas
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Everyone loved Longfellow’s poems‚ all adults and children have read his poems. Longfellow went to Harvard for college and made a amazing work there. He had a good life growing up and he well just did amazing things. But do you see the diffrence between this two authors? One came from a bad life and the other not so much. As i see it
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John Keats‚ a poet of the romantic era‚ composed this poem in the spring of 1819. Being a poet of the Romantic era‚ he was a Nature lover‚ but instead of looking at Nature as a guide or teacher‚ he was in pursuit of beauty within Nature. The romantic poets emphasized on emotions‚ they believed in the power of imagination and experimented with new ideas and concepts. Keats is generally considered the most tragic of the Romantic poets as he was faced by a series of sad experiences in his life. The
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in writer John Keats’ odes is the idea of permanence versus temporality. They investigate the relationships‚ or barriers to relationship‚ between always changing human beings and the eternal‚ static and unalterable forces superior to humans. In John Keats’ poems‚ "Ode to a Nightingale" and "To Autumn" Keats longs for the immortality of the beauty of the season and of the song of the nightingale but deep down he knows he can not obtain it. In the ode "To Autumn" author John Keats longs to have everlasting
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Death‚ Beauty & Fame : Life experiences and feelings of John Keats as they influenced his writing. John Keats was born in 1979‚ the son of Horse-stable keeper. Keats was an orphan by the age of fourteen; he was an apprentice of a surgeon for certain time but decided to move on to poetry instead. His early works were famously savaged by the critics‚ but Keats remained assured in "drive" that eventually be "among the English poets". Keats ’s longed for marriage to Fanny Brawne was prevented by the
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