John Keats Research Paper

Many people in today’s world are suffering due to their enhanced focus on their limitations, while neglecting their numerous talents, which causes great emotional suffering. In John Keats’s Odes, he developed a humble acceptance of both his limitations and talents through the immense suffering that he endured throughout his life. This view was also shown in The Breakfast Club where a brilliant young man, Brian Johnson, was upset by his inability to create a lamp in shop class so he contemplated committing suicide. Brian was so concerned about failing shop class that he overlooked all of his other high grades. This story showed how the ability to accept limitations with humility and talents with gratitude was mandatory for the human mind to remain in a peaceful state. Poetry is a good way to understand this goal because through it one can perfectly see the emotional struggle of trying to accept oneself through
John Keats’s writing genre varied from work to work, as there were many in narrative, lyrical, and epic poetry (Henry 187). His early poetry was successful for its strong emotion while using themes of love, the relationship between poetry and nature, and the eternalness of beauty (Henry 187). He also enjoyed major success that endures to this day in “Laima”, “Isabella”, and “The Eve of St. Agnes” (Henry 187). Critics celebrate the dexterity, the wonderful imagery, and the sympathy that is in all of these poems (Henry 187). Though Keats had many successful poems, there was one early poem, Endymion, that was quite a failure (Henry 188). Many readers complained of Keats’s confusing and overuse of metaphors (Henry 188). Therefore, Keats was forced to change his style of writing because he was living solely off of the profits he received from writing (Henry 188). Keats’s writing also exemplified the Romantic idea of going back to a simpler, better time (Bergum