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John Keats Argumentative Essay

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In an everyday life, humans are surrounded by people who may love someone, may be their kids, their animals, or even their wife. Love is one of the most powerful words to say to someone, because the word love is something that is not made up by two random strangers, it is an unbreakable bond that two may share and live happily with each other. Love is an amazing experience to be in. Love is inevitable. In the book of “The Making of a Poem” a Norton Anthology of Poetic Forms, there was one man who shared the meaning of love, but died because of his tuberculosis. This man, John Keats himself. John Keats was born in London and was studying to become a surgeon, but soon left that field of medicine to follow in favor of poetry, where his true heart was in. Keats wrote many poems and was happily in love with a woman name Fanny. He never did live that long because of his disease, but yet his poems are still being read at this time of age. Back in his time he felt as if he was a failure with his poem, but after his death, his poem have been noticed and …show more content…

In the poem Bright Stars by John Keats, he writes in the first line, “Bright star, would I were steadfast as thou art” (62). The bright star is a metaphor of Franny who is his beloved lover. After comparing the bright star to Franny, he then talks about being “steadfast as thou art” to elaborate that he is loyal to the Bright star being that it is Franny. He loves Franny and is comparing the two to show that he misses her. Usually the bright star would be considered a navigational sense of path, since it’s the North Star that doesn’t revolve like the others. As Keats looks at the Bright star he awaits for her as he is traveling and can’t bare to see her again. He knows exactly where to find her. This is why Franny is the Bright star who doesn’t move around, because he exactly know where find her and visit during his arrival. His love for her is great and

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