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John Keats, 2002.
A review of two articles which discuss John Keats: "John Keats and Symbolism" by Jeffrey and "The Stylistic development of Keats" by Walter Jackson Bate.
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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.
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Keats's Portrayal of Multicultural Children in Literature, 2002.
A biography of the life and works of children's literature author, Ezra Jack Keats.
3,451 words (approx. 13.8 pages), 19 sources, APA, $ 97.95
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This paper begins with a discussion on the significance that children's literature has to the development of a child's personal confidence and communication skills. It then goes on to examine the unique writing and artistic skills of Ezra Jack Keats and his contribution to the world of children's literature. In particular, the paper looks at Keats's positive portrayal of minority children and the resulting positive influence his books had on minority children. A brief biography of Keats's life is included, as well as discussions on early influences on Keats's work and the significance of his illustrations.
Influences On Keats?s Work
Keats?s Beliefs on the Role of the Picture Book
Relationship of Illustrations to the Written Text
Keats's Audience
Trends in Keats?s Work
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"Picture books enhance children?s ability to develop creative thinking. By observing how characters solve problems or achieve goals, children can learn to apply similar skills to their own individual situations or circumstances. This is reinforced through parental and teacher guidance along with creating a dialog for effective communication. The process also enhances personal confidence. The four components of divergent thinking: fluency, flexibility, originality, and elaboration are important thinking tools for success in reading and language arts. Even before they can read and write independently, children can participate in activities that promote divergent thinking."
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Keats and Shelley: Making Immortality, 2004.
Examines how the early deaths of poets John Keats and Percy Shelley impacted the popularity of their works.
7,859 words (approx. 31.4 pages), 6 sources, MLA, $ 170.95
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John Keats and Percy Shelley both died relatively young, Keats at twenty-five and Shelley at thirty, and the tragedies of both of these men seems to have added a mythical aspect to their names that would not be there had they lived to old ages. The paper shows that, instead of focusing on the ?what ifs? of the two poets, most critics have turned their eyes on examining the actual poetry produced by both poets in their very short lifetimes. The paper examines several works by these poets, such as "Ode to a Nightingale" by Keats and "Ode to the West Wind" by Shelley. The paper also includes quotes from the poems mentioned.
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"The poet eventually realizes that death, however, is not the answer to life?s misery. The poet wants ?easeful death,? and there are requirements for this particular kind of death. For the poet, the main requirement is death while experiencing beauty: ?Now more than ever seems it rich to die.? Everybody will die, and instead of suffering a long, painful death, he would rather pass away during a happy moment, therefore making death a rich experience. He wrote to Fanny Brawne: ?I have two luxuries to brood over in my walks, your loveliness and the hour of my death. O that I could have possession of them both in the same minute.?"
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Keats: Contradiction and Identification in Nature, 2002.
Presents two of John Keats poems as classic examples of the Romantic Movement in Europe during the early 1800s.
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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.
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Keats and Tennyson, 2003.
This paper discusses the similarities between the writings of John Keats and Lord Alfred Tennyson.
1,600 words (approx. 6.4 pages), 2 sources, MLA, $ 52.95
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This paper explains that the most notable tool used by both Keats and Tennyson is "negative capability", the submersion of one's identity; Keats would often completely submerge himself in the description of an object until he became that object in a poem as in his "Ode to a Nightingale" and Tennyson has a similar tale "The Lotos Eater". The author points out that Keats and Tennyson are alike in that they both make liberal use of classical writings and nearly every poem, which they write, refers to either mythology or Shakespeare. The paper concludes that both writers worked a sort of magic through sorrowful inspirations and the juxtaposition of conflicting concepts.
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"Keats received even harsher criticism than Tennyson did. He received so much criticism for his poem "Endymion" that it was rumored (falsely) that the criticism is what drove him to illness. At age eight, his father died from a bad fall off of a horse, and soon after, his mother and then brother died of tuberculosis. To make matters worse, as a physician, Keats recognized the signs of tuberculosis in himself early on. He immediately guessed that he was doomed. Keats was right; he never even lived to see his thirties. Naturally, his poems reflect the sense of doom that pervaded his spirit."
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John Keats, 2004.
This paper discusses John Keats and the Cockney School of poetry.
1,675 words (approx. 6.7 pages), 6 sources, MLA, $ 54.95
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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.
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"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."
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John Keats' "On First Looking into Chapman's Homer", 2008.
Analyzes John Keats' sonnet "On First Looking into Chapman's Homer".
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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.
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"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."
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John Keats' Poems, 2005.
This paper discusses the thematic and stylistic differences between John Keats' poems "Hyperion" and "The Fall of Hyperion".
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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.
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"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."
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The Poetry of John Keats, 2002.
This paper looks at three poems by John Keats: "When I Have Fears", "La Belle Dame Sans Merci" and "The Human Season", critiquing them according to the teachings of Helen Vendler.
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According to Vendler, there are several aspects one should look at when critiquing poetry. This paper studies a few of these methods, applying them to the chosen poems of Keats. The critical aspects are meaning, rhythm, rhyme, structure and images.
Table of Contents:
A Short History
Brief Technical Study
Meaning
Rhythm
Rhyme
Structure
Images
The Style of Keats
Conclusions
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"It is important to be able to paraphrase the poem to understand the meaning therein. In When I have fears, Keats is saying, "When I am frightened that I might die before I'm finished writing, or before I can experience love, I feel utterly alone." The Human Seasons is a comparison of the seasons of nature to that of a man's life. Spring is the spryness of youth, Summer is maturity of young adulthood, Autumn is reflection of middle age and Winter is old age and death. La Belle Dame Sans Merci is a story of how a knight was enthralled by a beautiful woman. He loved her, but she toyed with him and in the end, abandoned him."
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Comparative Analysis of Yeats and Keats, 2006.
A comparison of "Ode on a Grecian Urn" by Keats and "Sailing to Byzantium" by Yeats.
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This paper discusses the common theme of permanence that exists between the poems "Ode on a Grecian Urn" and "Sailing to Byzantium". According to the paper, both poets discuss the art that depicts ancient times in relation to its ability to exist in frozen time. Although man may age and know change and eventual death, the figures that the art displays will forever be young, beautiful and vibrant because the time displayed on the art is permanent. Throughout the works of Yeats and Keats this theme is displayed by the use of poetic elements. Language discursive may either depart from the main point or cover a variety of issues in the selection of literature. Keats writes of an urn that displays ancient times, and figures that cannot be altered by time.
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John Keats' "Ode to a Nightingale", 2005.
This paper discusses the stylistic aspects of John Keats' "Ode to a Nightingale".
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This paper explains that, in "Ode to a Nightingale", Keats contrasts his idealized view of a nightingale with his jaded opinion of man's life. The author points out that, as the poem proceeds, his response to the bird's song begins as a celebration of the magnificent "immortal bird" before devolving into a lamentation about the "palsies" and "leaden-eyed despairs" of mankind. The paper relates that Keats' varying diction, imagery and tone correspond to the poem's shifting focus and help the reader to understand the narrator's changing responses to the nightingale.
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"Like his diction and imagery, Keats' tone alternates between elevated and debased as his attention focuses on the nightingale and on man's plight. The poem's first two stanzas portray an ecstasy so great that the poet feels almost insufficient to express it. He can only compare it to a pleasant intoxication-"as though of hemlock I had drunk, / Or emptied some dull opiate to the drains" (lines 2-3). He feels "too happy" (line 6) on contemplating the joy of the nightingale. This ecstatic tone continues through the end of the second stanza when he hopes to "drink, and leave the world unseen, / And with thee fade away into the forest dim" (lines 19-20)."
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John Keats And His Poetry, 2008.
An analysis of the life and most famous poems of John Keats.
3,043 words (approx. 12.2 pages), 15 sources, MLA, $ 89.95
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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.
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"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)"
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Keats's Romanticism, 2002.
Examines the relationship of Keats's version of Romantic literature in comparison to the general form that the Romantic literary form took in the works of his contemporaries.
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This paper contends that while Keats, the poet, was romantic, he was not fawning over childhood fairy tales in the same manner as his contemporaries. Instead, Keats combined a sense of the past (archetype) and an awareness of the future (Industrialism) and saw that they were in many ways reflections of each other - the more things changed, the more they stayed the same.
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John Keats and Matthew Arnold, 2002.
Compares how John Keats and Matthew Arnold viewed their roles as poets in society.
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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."
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Byron, Keats and Coleridge, 2002.
A look at the work of Byron, Keats and Coleridge, the poetic masters of the Romantic period.
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This paper discusses how of all the English poets that comprise the Romantic period, Lord Byron (1788-1824), John Keats (1795-1821) and Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772-1834) stand as the quintessential masters of Romantic poetry. It examines how their contributions to the aesthetics of versification are highly representative of the Romantic period by reviewing Byron's "She Walks in Beauty," Keats' major odes ("Ode to a Nightingale", "Ode on a Grecian Urn" and "Ode to Melancholy") and Coleridge's "Rime of the Ancient Mariner."
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"The great symbolic voice of the true Romantic poet can best be heard in John Keats' romantic odes. In "Ode to a Nightingale," Keats relates that his "heart aches, and a drowsy numbness pains/My sense, as though of hemlock I had drunk" (1st stanza, lines 1-2), which shows that Keats longs for happiness and wishes to be free like the nightingale, a symbol of great importance to the Romantic poets, for it represents freedom of expression and flights of fancy into the sublime. Thus, this image conjures up the idea that the poet has drunk poison (hemlock) which illustrates his deep longings for a spirit free of pain and misery, a reflection of the often poverty-stricken lives led by a good number of Romantic poets."
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