Analysis of Keats’ To Autumn John Keats’ poem To Autumn is essentially an ode to Autumn and the change of seasons. He was apparently inspired by observing nature; his detailed description of natural occurrences has a pleasant appeal to the readers’ senses. Keats also alludes to a certain unpleasantness connected to Autumn‚ and links it to a time of death. However‚ Keats’ association between stages of Autumn and the process of dying does not take away from the "ode" effect of the poem.
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present moment is the opportunity to appreciate nature’s beauty in a more passionate way. Possibly the fact that John Keats had been witness to the slow and painful deaths of many close relatives from tuberculosis‚ as had happened with his younger brother Tom the previous winter of the composition of the odes‚ it has made him more concerned with these three “enemies”. On the other hand Keats was in love with Fanny Brawne‚ so she could have been the inspiration to appreciate the nature’s beauty in time
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theme in writer John Keats’ odes is the idea of permanence versus temporality. They investigate the relationships‚ or barriers to relationship‚ between always changing human beings and the eternal‚ static and unalterable forces superior to humans. In John Keats’ poems‚ "Ode to a Nightingale" and "To Autumn" Keats longs for the immortality of the beauty of the season and of the song of the nightingale but deep down he knows he can not obtain it. In the ode "To Autumn" author John Keats longs to have
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Keats “If poetry come not as naturally as the leaves to a tree‚ it had better not come at all.” Negative capability: Keats believed that great people‚ especially poets‚ have to the ability to accept that not everything can be resolved. The truths found in the imagination access holy authority and cannot be otherwise understood. John Keats claimed that great artists possessed what he called “Negative Capability.” Such artists were “capable of being in uncertainties‚ Mysteries‚ doubts‚ without any
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Death‚ Beauty & Fame : Life experiences and feelings of John Keats as they influenced his writing. John Keats was born in 1979‚ the son of Horse-stable keeper. Keats was an orphan by the age of fourteen; he was an apprentice of a surgeon for certain time but decided to move on to poetry instead. His early works were famously savaged by the critics‚ but Keats remained assured in "drive" that eventually be "among the English poets". Keats ’s longed for marriage to Fanny Brawne was prevented by
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with what they know‚ the answers they get‚ and they know that all questions cannot be answered. In William Blake’s "The Tyger" and "The Lamb‚" nature is discussed in two opposing forms‚ where the question of who created the creatures is asked. In John Keats’ "Ode to a Nightingale‚" different questions are asked‚ but in the same nature as those in Blake’s poems. The three poems are all similar in discussing nature; however there are differences in the negative capability of them. In both "The
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‘On the sea’ by John Keats It keeps eternal whisperings around Desolate shores‚ and with its mighty swell Gluts twice ten thousand caverns‚ till the spell Of Hecate leaves them their old shadowy sound. Often ’tis in such gentle temper found‚ That scarcely will the very smallest shell Be moved for days from where it sometime fell‚ When last the winds of heaven were unbound. O ye! who have your eyeballs vexed and tired‚ Feast them upon the wideness of the Sea; O ye! whose ears are dinn’d
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Around the late 1700’s authors such as John Keats and Percy Bysshe Shelley were born. These two famous authors influenced many other authors to come. John Keats (1795 – 1821) and Percy Shelley (1792-1822) were both good friends during their time‚ which could be why they wrote their poems on similar topics for example both “Ode to the West Wind” by Percy Shelley and “To Autumn” by Keats were both written on nature and how they perceived it. The first time reading “Ode to the West Wind”
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this poem really about? 2. Why did Keats write the poem as he did? Why did he use the words‚ the rhythm‚ the images‚ the metaphors that he uses in the poem? Figure out your answer to these questions‚ and then set out to prove that you are right. For example‚ you might think that To Autumn says something about Keats’s attitude towards death. This is a good start‚ but is not specific enough. You need to read the poem closely and figure out exactly what Keats is saying about death (or about life
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The Significance of Word-Painting in John Keats’ Poetry Word-painting as one of Keats’ unique techniques of creating poems‚ is an art form of creating pictures in words. Each word‚ like the strokes of a brush on a canvas‚ shape an image that talks to the eyes. Word-painting‚ of course‚ reflects a poet’s attitude toward nature. Keats was not only the last but one of the sweetest romanticists. He was greatly affected by his solitude. Keats was mostly in the calm bosom of nature‚ far from the
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