KEATS AND WILLIAM WORDSWORTH AGE OF REASON EMPIRICISM "a statement is meaningful only if it can be verified empirically (Sproul 103)." "Man was born free‚ but everywhere he is in chains" - Rousseau Rousseau (1712-1778) cried: "Let us return to nature" (Schaeffer154) Characterized by freedom of the mind and an idealistic view of human nature‚ Romanticism slowly crept out of Neoclassicism (1798-1832 ) ROMANTICISM • Rousseau saw this as dangerous to the freedom of mankind and thus sparked
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John Keats was born on October 31‚ 1795‚ in London. The oldest of four children‚ he lost both his parents at a young age. His father‚ a livery-stable keeper‚ died when Keats was eight; his mother died of tuberculosis six years later. After his mother’s death‚ Keats’s maternal grandmother appointed two London merchants‚ Richard Abbey and John Rowland Sandell‚ as guardians. Abbey‚ a prosperous tea broker‚ assumed the bulk of this responsibility‚ while Sandell played only a minor role. When Keats was
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Analysis of “Ode to a Nightingale” and “To a Skylark” “To a Sklyark”‚ and “Ode to a Nightingale” 19th century English romanticism poems; written by Percy Shelley and John Keats. Keats and Shelley use allegory imagery of the bird to express an aesthetic expression‚ and their understanding of human nature. While Shelley’s impression of the bird gives him a positive aspect on life and death‚ Keats see’s the bird as a reminder of the mortality of human beings. In both poems the bird is perceived
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Ode to a Nightingale (Critical Appreciation) Written in May 1819‚ many believe Keats’ “Ode to a Nightingale” to have been written at the home of Charles Brown‚ when Keats sat and listened to the bird in the garden for some hours. In form this poem is a “regular ode”. There is a uniformity of the number of lines and of the rhyme-scheme in all the stanzas. Anyway this is more complex poem than "Ode to Autumn‚" consisting of eight stanzas and is a little more irregular in structure. Each stanza
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Autumn The first paragraph in John Keats‘ poem “To Autumn“ is proposing us a picture of the season. Contrary to popular image of an approach to a stage where everything is covered in snow and resting‚ the poem shows the warm side of this seson. The fertile and mature side of it. There is also a partial picture of the coming cold weather but the majority of the poem is focused on the remains of Summer and warmth reflected in Autumn. The description starts with a general characteristics of the
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Fears” and “Mezzo Cammin” by John Keats and Henry Wadsworth Longfellow respectively‚ have similar themes such as the inevitability of death and the fear of living unfulfilled and inadequate lives. John Keats fears that he will live a life of inadequacy and fail to accomplish all of his dreams‚ but he understands that his goals are miniscule in the larger scope of life. Conversely‚ Longfellow maintains a morbid view of death and of the future itself‚ while Keats is more captivated by the human experience
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John Keats lived only twenty-five years and four months (1795-1821)‚ yet his poetic achievement is extraordinary. His writing career lasted a little more than five years (1814-1820)‚ and three of his great odes--"Ode to a Nightingale‚" "Ode on a Grecian Urn‚" and "Ode on Melancholy"--were written in one month. Most of his major poems were written between his twenty-third and twenty-fourth years‚ and all his poems were written by his twenty-fifth year. In this brief period‚ he produced poems that
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Comparing and contrasting Text A and B In the poem To Autumn‚ it celebrates the rebounding nature. The symbolic aspects of life‚ in preparation for death; Keats was devoted to poetry due to personal problems. In contrast of the extract‚ it’s about celebrating and sharing with people about the markets in Italy about the exotic vegetables; he’s excited and wants to communicate with the reader. Both texts are describing what they see like e.g. plumps‚ hazel shells‚ vegetables‚ and a sense of bountifulness
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Comparison between Wordsworth’s and Keats’s poetry. ____ Wordsworth and Keats both belongs to Romantic age and both are the shining stars on the horizons of poetry. Both mark their names in the history of English literature through their work. ___John Keats and William Wordsworth believe in the "depth" of the world and the possibilities of the human heart. Regardless of where each poet looks for their inspiration they both are looking for the same thing; timeless innocence. Both poets sought to
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How does Keats express his aesthetic vision in ‘Ode on a Grecian Urn’? John Keats once said regarding Lord Byron that “he (Byron) describes what he sees‚ I describe what I imagine”. Keats is a typically Romantic poet in the way in which he uses the fluid boundaries of imagination within his poem to formulate his aesthetic vision which is projected in ‘Ode on a Grecian Urn’. Pope notes that the etymology of ‘aesthetics’ derives from the Greek meaning ‘things perceptible to the sense’ and ‘sensory
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