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John Keats Controversy

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John Keats was born on the last day of October in the year 1795 in north London. He was the firstborn among his five siblings. He was born of Thomas Keats who was the managing director of Swan and Hoop and Frances Jennings who was a daughter of one of the people who initiated the stables. In the year 1803, Keats joined John Clarke’s school in Enfield which is roughly sixteen kilometers from London (Cantel & John, 220). Clarke had a liberal perception and as such may have played a significant role in John Keats’ political development. Surprisingly, the school’s curriculum was much broader and covered a wide range of subjects as compared to other prestigious schools such as …show more content…

Though John was not the brilliant kids in academics, he was popularly known by his schoolmates and even won a repute of an outstanding fighter regardless of his body size since he was relatively small. “With a great poet, the sense of beauty overcomes every other consideration or rather obliterates all other considerations” (John Keats Quotes, 1). As evidenced by this statement, John Keats believed in the beauty of nature and the existence of the human being above all else. He was not just an ordinary person who lived in London between the 16th and 17th but was a poet who realized his dreams despite experiencing many struggles in his lifetime. He overcame a wide range of challenges which acted as barriers in his life of poetry. Keats lived a somewhat extraordinary life marked by several heartbreaks from …show more content…

Along with other Romantic poets, he played a significant role in the establishment of the new romantic reflective ode, the individual description ode and passionate meditation (Cronin, 150). The poem ‘To Autumn’ is one example of his romantic reflective ode owing to its imageries and passion. As a Romantic poet, John had an exceptional perspective on life and could severally attempt to elope from the real world and try out a place that he thought was ideal for him. He often imagined himself in another world, and when he was not satisfied with the new place, he would go back to writing poems which seemed to be his best choice. This explains why his poems such as To Autumn displays distinct feelings and views from the beginning to the

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Wordsworth and Muir express their fascination with nature using imagery and mood. In “Calypso Borealis”, John Muir states that he finds himself “glorying in the fresh cool beauty and charm of the bog and meadow heathworts, grasses, carices, ferns, mosses, liverworts displayed in boundless profusion” (Muir). The words “boundless profusion” appeals to the sense of sight and helps us imagine the scene and all the bountiful natural beauty of the place. The image shows Muir’s relationship with nature because it demonstrates his overwhelming, nearly spiritual, experience with nature. In the poem “I wandered lonely as a cloud”,

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When he wrote “On Edmund Kean as a Shakespearian Actor” in 1817, Keats imagined a posture of an ideal poet who loftily stands alone absorbed in the exercise of negatively capable sympathetic imagination .In the last days of his writerly life he once again stands, throwing his hand as dramatically and fascinatingly as any stage actor or dramatic poet reciting his own lines. Keats’s negative capability is an act of self-assertion all the way through, covered in the clothing of self-negation. In “This living hand” he throws away the garb and demands his due, frankly revealing how negatively capable negative capability

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(Keats 4 poems) (4 poems with 1 message in each one) Is their thing called being remembered? There are 4 poems that Keats wrote and they go in order from Chapman’s Homer, when I have fears that I may cease to be, Ode to a Nightingale, Grecian Urn. The first message in Homer is inspired. The second message is going to be Fear. The third poem and third message is Joy.

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John Keats gave the planet human characteristics by saying “planet swims.” The use of personification gave a sense of connection between the reader and the poem. It also helped build imagery, which can help the reader imagine the objects and

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John Keats Ode to a Nightingale is conveyed by the diction, imagery, and tone of the poem to analyze the narrator’s changing responses to the nightingale, as well as the effect the bird’s presence has. The diction analyzes the narrator as he goes from admiring the bird’s conditions to overthinking reality, and soon realizing no matter what he does he cannot escape the world nor his thoughts. The narrator’s actions and how he will try anything to experience the same happiness as the bird reflects the vintage. “That I might drink, and leave the world unseen, and with thee fade away into the forest dim: (Keats, 1820)

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In the poem Keats starts by saying how the hand is warm and alive then cold and dead then reborn in the afterlife just to meet you again. This line from John Keats poem evokes an experience of how the living might feel the force of the dead. The presence of the dead could be an ominous feeling or the feeling of assurance. For me I got the sense of assurance when coming in contact with the dead because when I was younger I was really close with grandmother we did lots of things together when I would come visit, which was regularly because of my mother’s erratic work schedule. Suddenly the visiting stop

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Two scholarly writers brilliantly conveyed nature in their own opinion, an essay written by John Miller called, ”The Calypso Borealis," and a poem by William Wordsworth called, "I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud.” Both authors created work that acquires their idea of the beauty of nature while showing their compassion and love for nature. They each endured the essence in their own way. Each author also used their memory as descriptive imagery to creative share the scenery and amazement of their experience. Each individual has their own personal opinion about nature and how they decide to express their feelings can be diverse, and both authors, John Muir and William Wordsworth, expressed their compassion and love for nature in their own way.

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William Butler Yeats was a poet and writer, a quite good one at that; but, all poets have a place where they grow up and find a sense of the world that is also contributed in their poetry or writing and for Yeats that was Ireland. The way his poetry is constructed has a lot to do with his childhood, where he would go as a child, places he would see and the nostalgia he possessed from that as he got older. The sense of adventure and loss, as well as, love with Maud Gonne. Maud Gonne was someone who was very important in Yeats’ life, he was madly in love with this particular human being.

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Starting at line 5 and going to line 8, Keats imagines love as something written on the night sky. He starts by personifying the sky, in line 5 he says “..the night’s starred face,” which allows him to connect the sky to a person or in this case a human emotion. He brings the emotion of love and the concept of romance into his poem in line 6, “..symbols of high romance,” and in the following two lines he shows how unreachable love is if death is to come to him sooner rather than later. By placing the love he, and everybody else, longs for in the night sky, and vast and mysterious place, he makes the journey to finding love a long hard one. A journey that could never be fully accomplished if death was to come too

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John Keats was a poet during the early 19th century which is better known as the “romantic period”. The romantic period is not as romantic as it sounds, it was about a social, political, intellectual movement, as well as an artistic one. The writers of the romantic period felt as if they were backlashing at the previous era which was about science and enlightenment hence the lead to Great Britain's industrial revolution. The artists within the romantic period felt that the enlightenment era felt that they have lost what it meant to be human. When people usually look at the romantic period they usually look at the “Big Six” which includes John Keats.

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Besides the author and the reader, there is the ‘I’ of the lyrical hero or of the fictitious storyteller and the ‘you’ or ‘thou’ of the alleged addressee of dramatic monologues, supplications and epistles. Empson said that: „The machinations of ambiguity are among the very roots of poetry”(Surdulescu, Stefanescu, 30). The ambiguous intellectual attitude deconstructs both the heroic commitement to a cause in tragedy and the didactic confinement to a class in comedy; its unstable allegiance permits Keats’s exemplary poet (the „camelion poet”, more of an ideal projection than a description of Keats actual practice) to derive equal delight conceiving a lago or an Imogen. This perplexing situation is achieved through a histrionic strategy of „showing how”, rather than „telling about it” (Stefanescu, 173 ).

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Keegan’s essay, “The Opposite of Loneliness”, discloses college students’ mixed emotions of happiness, fear, and uncertainty. Her powerful writing connects her readers to their own personal experiences. Whether Keegan’s information questions college or life-long goals, her depth of knowledge reveals how

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Although Coleridge reflects on nature as being that “one Life within us and abroad “in most of his other poem, but coming In “Dejection: An Ode” we see more of the dialects between the imagination’s role in creating perception and nature guiding the soul. In the opening stanzas of “Dejection” the flipside to the romantic celebration of nature –the romantic emphasize on subjective experience, individual consciousness, and imagination. If our experience derives from ourselves, then nature can do nothing on its own. Beginning with the fifth stanza, Coleridge suggests that there is a power –personified joy that allows us to reconnect with nature and for it to renew us and that comes both from within and from without: “the spirit and the power, / Which wedding Nature to us gives in dower / A new Earth and new Heaven” (67–69).

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He wanted to engage the reader in the importance of imagination and the lack thereof. It may be believe that Ode to a Nightingale is about the lack of imagination that humans have today. Some people may not be able to envision the nightingale that Keats is talking about throughout the poem, and the imagination is an important factor in being able to envision the bird. This interpretation would make the ending quote of the poem, “Do I wake or do I sleep?” important because people may not understand that Keats may be imagining the nightingale and its existence.

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