General Comments Keats was so moved by the power and aliveness of Chapman’s translation of Homer that he wrote this sonnet--after spending all night reading Homer with a friend. The poem expresses the intensity of Keats’s experience; it also reveals how passionately he cared about poetry. To communicate how profoundly the revelation of Homer’s genius affected him‚ Keats uses imagery of exploration and discovery. In a sense‚ the reading experience itself becomes a Homeric voyage‚ both for the
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Serenade" by Percy Shelley‚ "The Little Black Boy" by William Blake‚ and "Lamia" by John Keats. The exaggerations‚ cultural expressions‚ references to African or Indian background‚ and fictional story lines and characters play as proof that Romantic Orientalism is pieced into these author ’s writings‚ considering these are characteristics of which Romantic Orientalism displays. Each author‚ Shelley‚ Blake‚ and Keats‚ all display different characteristics of these Romantic Orientalism qualities. First
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Keats was inspired to write “Ode to Autumn” after walking through the water meadows of Winchester‚ England‚ in an early autumn evening of 1819. The poem has three stanzas of eleven lines describing the taste‚ sights and sounds of autumn. Much of the third stanza‚ however‚ is dedicated to diction‚ symbolism‚ and literary devices with decisively negative connotations‚ as it describes the end of the day and the end of autumn. The author makes an intense description of autumn at least at first sight
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second generation of the Romantic period. Even though Shelley and Keats literary works are both lyric poems they portray some similarities as well as differences. To begin with‚ both poems share a similar genre‚ form and theme. First‚ it can be mentioned that both are odes since they are short lyric poems that have a complicated formal structure. This ancient form of poetry was extremely popular among the Romantic poets such as Keats and Shelley. Another similarity is that both odes are written in
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decided to memorize the description of Lamia’s snake-woman appearance to force myself into a very careful close reading that would help me with the term paper for this class. This passage is the first visual impression the reader gets of Lamia‚ and Keats depicts her as a creature whose appearance overflows with striking sensual detail that ultimately cannot be sufficiently described in language. I began memorizing the poem two lines at a time whenever I found a few minutes to spare—the five minutes
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Beauty Is Truth‚ Truth Beauty: Beauty is truth‚ truth beauty that is all‚ You know on earth and that you need to know! (John Keats) There exist innumerable definitions and quotations regarding what beauty really are! A number of philosophers‚ poets and thinkers have tried to define it yet there exists such a wide gap between their teachings that one becomes skeptical of all. Through skepticism is no conclusion‚ needless to say that it is identifiable‚ according to one’s personal perceptions but
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more emotion and amazement in the experience of discovering something new. Keats looked with eyes of wonder at new adventures and expressed them verbally with delicacy and reserve. In the poem On First Looking into Chapman’s Homer‚ the description of his experiences overflows with youth and excitement. But as the poem continues the writing is toned down to convey the most important and meaningful experience. Keats describes how after traveling in lands of gold‚ and seeing many great states
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"Always is as scary a word as never. That phrase relates to the theme of Keats’ "Ode on a Grecian Urn"‚ which is an exploration of the border between desire and fulfillment in human life. Keats’ "Ode on a Grecian Urn" features a narrator musing upon the face of an urn that holds‚ for him‚ more life in its earthenware curves than does the curves of the temporal earth. The title itself reflects the reader-response reading of the urn’s text: the ode is on (about ) the urn‚ and the ode is also depicted
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GCSE English coursework: comparison of poems. There are many similarities and differences between the two poems: "When We Two Parted"‚ written by Lord Bryon‚ and "La Belle Dames Sans Merci"‚ written by John Keats. I shall be exploring these poems and seeing connections and differences between them‚ so that I am able to compare them. The storyline of both poems is based around love‚ and so they are similar in that respect‚ however I think the poems bring out different types of emotions. When
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In Western thought the understanding of Zen and Japanese Buddhism‚ and even Japanese faith‚ remains somewhat elusive. The word ‘zen’ is thrown around rather casually in conversation‚ but whether or not people in the West actually understand the meaning of that word has yet to be seen. However the elusiveness of the Zen Buddhist tradition is not a Western failure‚ but instead a factor of the Zen faith itself. It is an elusive faith - the main focus is not going to heaven‚ honoring certain gods‚ or
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