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

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

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