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This paper critically analyzes 2 articles written on his style and imagery and contends that his writing was one of the most stylistic of his era and commended the Romantic poets of his time.

Tags:john, keats, romantic

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This paper discusses the part played by John Keats in the Romantic movement. The writer gives a brief overview of Keats' life and explains, giving examples from "Ode to a Nightingale and "Bright Star," how his writing shows his passion for appreciating the natural beauty of the known world, as well as his ability to express the tension between the desire and the reality of life. Doomed to an early death by his chronic tuberculosis, the contradictory force of wanting to live for his love, but also wanting to be somewhere else and to be something else to escape the truth was excruciating for Keats. He captured the moment of ecstasy amidst the pain, a moment in time where the human soul is able to leave suffering behind by escaping into the idealistic beauty of Nature. The paper concludes that Keats' influence on the Romantic period may have been greater than that of any other writer in his time.

From the Paper
"Keats was drawn to the organic, ethereal nostalgia of the earth. All of his poems include characteristics of natural phenomena that expose his perception of the world as the ultimate and perfect existence, the entity that a dying Keats strongly desires to identify with. For instance, in Ode to a Nightingale, the song of the bird heard from the window is immortalized in several of Keats's stanzas. By the third stanza, Keats encourages the bird to enjoy its freedom."

Tags:literary, anti-intellectualism, humanitarianism, Yeats, Shelley, conflict, death

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This paper explains that, whether or not it is a fragment, "The Fall of Hyperion" is somewhat a necessary component, to the precursor "Hyperion", which completes the poet's thoughts concerning history, language, art, poetry and mankind. The author points out that, in a sense, "Hyperion" and "The Fall of Hyperion" represent the life of John Keats, the poet; while the theme is still the same, the poet is definitely different. The paper stresses that "Hyperion" and "The Fall of Hyperion" remain faithful to the romantic movement that John Keats helped establish; however, they move in almost different directions--a talent Keats mastered with his text. Several quotations.

From the Paper
"Later, as the poet describes Apollo, we see less of a fully described man and more of a creature that allows the poet to expand his imaginative technique. In short, his character adds to the sensuality we are experiencing. An example of this style can be seen when the poet writes, "Beside the osiers of a rivulet,/Full ankle-deep in lilies of the vale" (III.33-5). These images enhance the style and theme of "Hyperion," which is one that is grand, beautiful, and hopeful. Hope for attaining truth and beauty do come with a price, however."

Tags:romantic, fragment, direction, poet, responsibility

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This paper describes the poetic, structural and thematic devices that John Keats uses in his poem "When I have Fears That I May Cease to Be" to show that his desire to write is artistic in nature rather than driven by ulterior motives. Although this poem appears to jar against the fundamental concepts of serenity and peace, the paper suggests that it has an innate tranquility. The realization that this poem served to ease the tensions and conflicting emotions Keats felt about his growing illness and disability, the paper concludes, is ultimately what makes this poem so popular. According to the paper, the poem displays Keats' depth of character.

From the Paper
"The basic argument he presents within the first nine lines of the sonnet is that his mental faculties will never be fully used because of his inability to write down all of the rich poems he has in his head. The paradox within his imagery and metaphor is also another example of how Keats shows his passion for artistic expression. Keats simultaneously compares himself to the field of grain that is being "glean'd" because it represents both the world around him, and Keats' imagination because it is so rich and fulfilling."

Tags:popularity, mental harvest, struggle disability character

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This paper describes the meaning and construction of John Keats' sonnet "On First Looking into Chapman's Homer" and explains that it was written as an immediate response to the revelation experienced by Keats on first reading George Chapman's classic translation of Homer's epic the "Odyssey". The paper further relates that Keats' poem expresses his excitement about what he has just discovered in reading Chapman's work, which leads him to want to make more discoveries about himself and about the world, especially the world of ancient times.

From the Paper
"As is the case with the sonnet form, this sonnet is in fourteen lines. The rhyme scheme may vary in different types of sonnet, and Keats her uses a scheme of ABBA ABBA CDCDCD. The Shakespearian sonnet would normally end with a couplet, but Keats does not do that, effectively using two quatrains followed by a six-line conclusion. The meter for the sonnet is iambic pentameter, with variations that emphasize words and thoughts. for instance, line 10 is ... a line that is hard to read in strict iambic pentameter and that begins with a trochee, an accented followed by an unaccented syllable, followed by a spondee, with two accented syllables."

Tags:romanticism travel discovery, rhyme scheme, meter

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This paper explains that John Keats is undoubtedly one of the finest poets of the Romantic era, but he was regularly criticized for being a follower of Cockney school of thought. The author states that the Cockney style was a derogatory term used to define a certain poetic or writing style, charged with vulgarity, superficiality, lack of class, and masculinity; thus, Keats's association with Leigh Hunt proved to be extremely disastrous for the young poet who was rudely and ruthlessly accused without actual study of his work. The paper concludes that Keats does exhibit Cockney influences, especially where defiance of cultural and political restrictions is concerned; however, his poems should be completely acquitted from the charges of vulgarity or lack of morality.

From the Paper
"However, the very same poem became an English classic and modern critics have explained the severe criticism of Keats' early poems. G. A. Mathews explains that Keats unfortunately published his work during a time when it "it was hardly possible for a creative writer associated with one side to receive fair treatment from a reviewer employed by the other." But Keats can be termed a Cockney poet if we focus on some of the positive aspects and similarities of his work with that of Leigh Hunt. Despite what critics said about Keats' work, the only real Cockney influence on his work was reflected in his desire to deviate from fixed social, political and poetic rules. If his work did not exhibit clear structure, it was to some extent intentional because Keats shared with Hunt a desire to rebel against societal and political restrictions."

Tags:hunt, style, romantic, derogatory, vulgarity

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The paper focuses on how Franz Kafka in the short story "The Hunger Artist" and John Keats in the poem "Ode on a Grecian Urn," use their art to express their feelings of life and purpose in a world that others no longer appreciate. The paper looks at how the artist in Franz Kafka's short story believes his art of fasting is significant to his purpose in the world, and the reactions of humans to his art are key in the reasons why he pursues his particular form of art. The paper then shows how Keats uses several poetic devices in his poem to express his thoughts and views about life in the changing world.

From the Paper
"In Kafka's "The Hunger Artist," the hunger artist expresses his art through fasting. He believes that his actions play a major role in the way humans behave. The hunger artist knows that when observers come to see him in his emaciated form, it is because they respect his art and are fascinated by it. The story describes that he is "in the spotlight, honored by the world" and that "the children looked on amazed, their mouths open..." This is something that went on for many years. The irony is that his fasting became his way to keep alive literally and spiritually. As time went on, he became disenchanted by his art and the response he received from his observers. For instance, when the impresario convinced the audience the hunger artist was able to fast longer than forty days, he would show them pictures of the "artist on the fortieth day of his fast, in bed, almost dead from exhaustion," and this would bother the artist because he knew he could fast longer for forty days because to him fasting was easy."

Tags:life, purpose, vision

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This paper discusses the life and poetry of John Keats. It describes a background of his family and his short life. The paper analyzes some of his famous works, including "On First Looking into Chapman's Homer," "Ode to a Nightingale" and "Ode on a Grecian Urn." The paper discusses why, in his short life, Keats was placed among the great English poets. It also provides an appendix of the three poems it discusses.

From the Paper
"His poem becomes a vehicle to relate the various scenes around the urn that the artist was trying to relate. He tells of lover and his beloved, the piper, the procession taking the bull to a sacrifice. These scenes are sufficiently ambiguous that Keats must pose his many questions in the first and fourth stanzas. Because the urn cannot answer in specifics, these questions pass to the reader/viewer, who is left to provide his own answers. Keats, knowing that he cannot know these details, poses his own interpretations for the stories the urn reveals. (Percarmona)"

Tags:interpretation, stanza, grecian, urn, nightingale

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Poets' conceptions of their roles in society can be fairly consistent for long periods of time or may change rapidly in a decade or two. The difference between the idea of a poet's function as conceived by the Romantic era and the Victorian period provides an example of significant change. The paper shows that not all the supposed members of any school of poetry share every aspect of the predominant theory of poetry in their generation. It shows that neither John Keats (1795-1821) nor Matthew Arnold (1822-88) is entirely typical of his era. But, especially because Arnold reacted against Keats--among others--in specific, articulated ways, a comparison of their ideas of their role as poets in this paper demonstrates how such changes take place and the effect they have on the poetry that is written.

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"The expression of his experience in the poems relied, therefore, on the intelligent apprehension of the beautiful but necessarily avoided the interference occasioned by philosophical rigor or conventional belief systems. Rather than acting as a scientist who catalogues experience or an overt expressionist who presents her/his feelings in all their immediacy and as an end in themselves, Keats valued the ability to go as deeply as possible into feeling and then to communicate and transform the experience with words that, rather than refining and limiting the experience, conveyed an accurate sense of the ambiguity as well as the nature of the experience. He desired, in other words, a meaningful description of what was conventionally indescribable while avoiding a vocabulary or style that would constrain the sense of feeling he wished to express. It was, in short, a poetry of sensation. His most famous formulation of this aspect of his poetic practice came in a letter written to his friend Benjamin Bailey in 1817."

Tags:Wordsworth, Byron, Shelley, Thucydides

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The poetry of John Keats (1795-1821) is representative of the Romantic Movement in Europe during the early 1800s. In this essay, Keats' (1919) "Bright Star" and (1819) "Ode to a Nightingale" are compared as classic examples of Romanticism's interests in the human soul, representations of perfection in Nature, and especially of depicting the emotions, passions, and sensualities of human existence. Both poems contain examples of Keats' own desire to portray the questions of life in contradictions.

Tags:contradiction, identification, nature