KEATS AND WILLIAM WORDSWORTH AGE OF REASON EMPIRICISM "a statement is meaningful only if it can be verified empirically (Sproul 103)." "Man was born free‚ but everywhere he is in chains" - Rousseau Rousseau (1712-1778) cried: "Let us return to nature" (Schaeffer154) Characterized by freedom of the mind and an idealistic view of human nature‚ Romanticism slowly crept out of Neoclassicism (1798-1832 ) ROMANTICISM • Rousseau saw this as dangerous to the freedom of mankind and thus sparked
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Throughout the history of literature‚ Keats is arguable the most influential writers of the romantic era. Although‚ at the time of his life‚ his poetry was unread and frankly unheard of. Those who did read his writing were appalled and stated that he wouldn’t make it as a writer. This started Keats disbelief in himself‚ but he continued writing because his dream was to become recognized for his work. It’s clearly seen that his writing was matured much beyond his time‚ therefore his recognition did
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called “Negative Capability.” Such artists were “capable of being in uncertainties‚ Mysteries‚ doubts‚ without any irritable reaching after fact & reason.” Explain how Keats’ concept of “negative capability” might be applied to a reading of Keats’ “Ode on a Grecian Urn.” Keats doesn’t focus on the same subjects as the other romantic poets‚ like religion‚ ethics‚ morals or politics. He writes about sensations and experiencing the richness of life. Conflicts in Keats’ poetry Transient sensation/enduring
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John Keats (1795-1821) TO AUTUMN. 1. SEASON of mists and mellow fruitfulness‚ Close bosom-friend of the maturing sun; Conspiring with him how to load and bless With fruit the vines that round the thatch-eves run; To bend with apples the moss’d cottage-trees‚ And fill all fruit with ripeness to the core; To swell the gourd‚ and plump the hazel shells With
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Cited: John Keats “Ode to a Nightingale” The Norton Anthology of English Literature (Ninth Edition) Ed. Stephen Greenblatt. 2012. Print Lord Alfred Tennyson “In Memoriam A.H.H” The Norton Anthology of English Literature (Ninth Edition) Ed. Stephen Greenblatt. 2012. Print Walt Whitman
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CIRCUS ANIMALS DESERTION The speaker describes searching in vain for a poetic theme: he says that he had tried to find one for “six weeks or so‚” but had been unable to do so. He thinks that perhaps‚ now that he is “but a broken man‚” he will have to be satisfied with writing about his heart‚ although for his entire life (“Winter and summer till old age began”) he had played with elaborate‚ showy poetic themes that paraded like “circus animals”: “Those stilted boys‚ that burnished chariot‚ / Lion
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This landmark biography of celebrated Romantic poet John Keats explodes entrenched conceptions of him as a delicate‚ overly sensitive‚ tragic figure. Instead‚ Nicholas Roe reveals the real flesh-and-blood poet: a passionate man driven by ambition but prey to doubt‚ suspicion‚ and jealousy; sure of his vocation while bitterly resentful of the obstacles that blighted his career; devoured by sexual desire and frustration; and in thrall to alcohol and opium. Through unparalleled original research‚ Roe
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the “b” sound to reinforce the idea of blackness In “Ode on Melancholy“ by Keats‚ stanza 3 line 3‚ “aching pleasure” is an example of oxymoron‚ 2 contradicting ideas together such as ache and pleasure. In “Ode to a Nightingale” by Keats‚ stanza 6 line 2‚ “easeful death” is an example of synesthesia that is when 2 senses opposing that would be the case of easeful as something easily and death‚ death is not something easy In “Ode to a Grecian Urn” by Keats‚ the is an instance of paradox
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joy so often is. Neurotic‚ yet quintessential‚ poet of the late Romantic era‚ Percy Bysshe Shelley‚ explores the deeply ingrained yet paradoxical state of permanence and impermanent thought within and around humans as idealised in his poems “Hymn to Intellectual Beauty” and “To a Skylark”. Both poems illustrate revelations of humanities transience in comparison to nature as well as the nexus of idealism and escapism‚ a thematic prose of the eccentric unworldliness of Romantic poets. Shelley’s 1816
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1712 - Birth of philosopher‚ writer Jean Jacques Rousseau. Some of his works marked the beginnings of the Romantic Movement. 1764 - The Castle of Otranto by Horace Walpole published 1775 - American war of Independence 1787 - Society for the abolition of slavery founded 1789 - Fall of Bastille - the storming of the fortress that represented authority in France; began the French Revolution 1793 - Execution of Louis XVI and Marie Antoinette. France declares war against Britain (and then Britain
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