Poet Anthology Essay: An Analysis Of John Keats Poetry

Abby Byrne

Mrs Ketchum

Brit Lit

3/29/18

Poet Anthology Essay John Keats was born on October 31st of 1795 but his exact birth date is somewhat disputed. His family is said to have marked his birthday on October 29th, but baptism records have been found and used as official record that he was born on October 31st. Throughout his poetry, it is noticed that death is a prominent theme and this is probably because he encountered sickness and death a lot as a child. His father was trampled by a horse when John was just 8 years old. Since he witnessed his father's death at such a young age, it impacted a lot of his work. He knew that death was going to happen to everyone and showed that theme in some of his poems. For his mother, she fell apart

Charles Cowden Clarke was the poet that introduced John Keats to poetry and started his career off. He first introduced him to Edmund Spenser and other Elizabethan poets. Next, he introduced John to a journalist named was Leigh Hunt. Since he was introduced to this journalist he was able to make new poet friends. He made friends with another younger poet named John Hamilton Reynolds. John had his first book, Poetry, published in March of 1817. He showed a type of influence called “Huntian”, which was shown in his relaxed attitude and loose heroic couplet usage. He was very focused on the idea of poetry and wanted to show the beauty of poetry in each of his poems. John was not very known during his own time, but after he died he became more famous. He was made famous during the 19th century and painters were also inspired by his work. John Keats influenced poetry with his general emotional temper and tenderness, the minute delicacy of his natural observation, and his superficialness were all appreciated by not only regular people, but also

His work is still used today and many writers and artists use his work as inspiration. Keats inspired many different types of writers such as books as wildly diverse as Neil Gaiman's graphic novels and science fiction writer Dan Simmons. His poems were great examples of what the Romantic period of poetry was all about. John Keats searches for answers to questions in nature about existence, eternal love and death in his poems and many people enjoyed his straightforward view of death and life itself. He was a great example of having a rough life, but using it to his advantage. Many poets did this, but Keats is one of the most famous. His poetry was always different and h always surprised the reader with the end of his poems sometimes, which made him even more intriguing. His poetry was simple to read, yet complicated to analyze. He impacted poetry in amazing ways and showed a lot of different styles throughout his career. Everyone from artists to poets to authors have been inspired by John Keats. Even if he did not know it in his life time, he is very important in the world of