Friedrich Schiller: Ode to joy In this essay I will be examining “Ode to Joy” by Schiller‚ the part which was used by Beethoven as lyrics for his famous Ninth symphony. Definition of “ode’ is a poem in which a person expresses a strong feeling of love or respect for something‚ in this case for joy. In his fairly straightforward poem‚ Schiller wants to create a feeling and appreciation for the emotion of joy in the reader. The fairly simple theme‚ harmony and rhythm make it a
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John Keats’s poetry was greatly influenced by the Romantic Period and the Romantics‚ appreciation and exaggeration of nature’s beauty. Keats’s believed that the deepest meaning of life lay in the appreciation of material beauty‚ and that this beauty could be found in many different objects. He expresses this idea through the form of poetry. ‘To Autumn’‚ portrays the ideas of the abundance and fruitfulness of the season‚ the theme of mortality‚ and that Keats’s creativity will be immortalised through
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English Literature Biographical Speech Keats‚ John (1795-1821) English poet‚ one of the most gifted and appealing of the 19th century and a seminal figure of the romantic movement. Keats was born in London‚ October 31‚ 1795‚and was the eldest of four children. His father was a livery-stable owner‚ however he was killed in a riding accident when Keats was only nine and his mother died six years later of tuberculosis. Keats was educated at the Clarke School‚ in Enfield‚ and at the age of 15
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Tuesday‚ March 6‚ 2007 Ode to Evening - William Collins Introduction: “Ode to Evening‚” is one among the most enduring poems of William Collins. It is a beautiful poem of fifty-two lines‚ addressed to a goddess figure representing evening. This nymph‚ or maid‚ who personifies dusk‚ is chaste‚ reserv’d‚ and meek‚ in contrast to the bright-hair’d sun‚ a male figure who withdraws into his tent‚ making way for night. Thus evening is presented as the transition between light and darkness. Collins’
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English Romantic poet John Keats was born on October 31‚ 1795‚ in London. The oldest of four children‚ he lost both his parents at a young age. His father‚ a livery-stable keeper‚ died when Keats was eight; his mother died of tuberculosis six years later. After his mother’s death‚ Keats’s maternal grandmother appointed two London merchants‚ Richard Abbey and John Rowland Sandell‚ as guardians. Abbey‚ a prosperous tea broker‚ assumed the bulk of this responsibility‚ while Sandell played only a minor
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March 19‚ 2012 Explication on “Ode on Melancholy” In "Ode on Melancholy" John Keats expresses to readers the truth he sees‚ that joy and pain are inseparable and to experience joy fully we must experience sadness fully. Keats valued intensity of emotion‚ thought‚ and experience (“Classification Of Poem”). Keats does not stray away from the suggestion that feeling intensely means that grief or depression may cause sorrow and torture. Throughout the poem Keats expresses his values and emotions
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AN ODE To Autumn Summary Keats’s speaker opens his first stanza by addressing Autumn‚ describing its abundance and its intimacy with the sun‚ with whom Autumn ripens fruits and causes the late flowers to bloom. In the second stanza‚ the speaker describes the figure of Autumn as a female goddess‚ often seen sitting on the granary floor‚ her hair “soft-lifted” by the wind‚ and often seen sleeping in the fields or watching a cider-press squeezing the juice from apples. In the third stanza‚ the speaker
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Ode to the West Wind is a poem addressed to the west wind. It is personified both as a "Destroyer" and a "Preserver". It is seen as a great power of nature that destroys in order to create‚ that kills the unhealthy and the decaying to make way for the new and the fresh. The personification of the west wind as an enchanter‚ as a wild spirit is characteristic of Shelley’s poetry. Shelley’s personification of the west wind can be called "myth poesies"‚ another kind of metaphor. The poem is divided
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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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Keats: Ode to Autumn Analysis Ode to Autumn has a very different theme and style in comparison to many of Keat’s other poems. While most of Keats poems contain sharp cadences and emotionally charged themes‚ Ode to Autumn is a calm‚ descriptive poem about Keat’s perspective of the season Autumn and its relation to other season. In the Poem Ode to Autumn‚ Keats mainly utilizes rustic‚ vivid‚ visual and tactile imagery to describe the scenes of Autumn. The varying and slower cadences along with personification
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