The imagination is a key theme in many of Keats’ works. Keats was a voracious believer in transcendence‚ which his poetry suggests he thought could be acheived through the imagination and the world it creates. Keats famously wrote‚ “The Imagination may be compared to Adam’s dream—he awoke and found it truth.” Here he is theorising that imagination can connect a dreamer to the ideal world that existed before the fall of man‚ and transfer what is created within the imaginary world to reality. This
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Scholars of Keats agree that in terms of his exploration of love‚ he almost always links it with illusion. In Lamia and La Belle Dame‚ Keats certainly connects these two elements and indeed he seems to suggest moreover that love can only exist within the realm of illusion. Having said that‚ in The Eve of St. Agnes he explores a form of romantic love which transcends illusion and he reveals a love which thrives in reality. In Lamia‚ the limitation between love and illusion is explored through
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In a letter to a friend named Reynolds‚ Keats explained that he composed "To Autumn" because Somehow a stubble plain looks warm--in the same way that some pictures look warm--this struck me so much on my sunday’s [sic] walk‚ that I composed upon it. "To Autumn‚" the " perfect embodiment of poetic form‚ intent‚ and effect‚" is an ode‚ a serious and dignified lyric poem that adheres to a stanzaic form and is fairly long. Keats’s ode is divided into three eleven-line stanzas with the rhyme scheme
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Ode on a Grecian Urn John Keats John Keats was the youngest English romantic poet. It was his conviction that without the light of beauty no truth can be apprehended by the heart. In the poem‚ Ode on a Grecian Urn‚ Keats through the urn conveys a message of beauty and truth in art and through art. The poem explores the transience of the real world and the everlasting nature of the world of art. In the poem Keats describes an Urn he imagines it. He silences the Urn by calling it a “bride of quietness”
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Ode To a Nightingale In Keats’ 19th century poem‚ Ode To a Nightingale‚ he comments upon the short-lived nature of human life and the concept of mortality through using a contrasting image of a nightingale. In the poem‚ the narrator speaks of this bird yearningly‚ envious of its ability to remain immortal through it’s song‚ and of its detachment from the human world. It is clear that the narrator is experiencing feelings of melancholy‚ and he discusses a personal escape from an existence tainted
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Ode on a Grecian Urn Keats’ poetry depicts an enchanted world of beauty. It is a world of melody‚ imagination‚ sensuous delight. It also resounds with a note of melancholy and tragic sense of human suffering. He is often classed with Shakespeare and his poems attain the perfection of classic art. It has a felicity of expression‚ excellence of vision and wealth of imagery‚ which are purely Keatsian. Unlike Lord Byron or Shelley‚ he does not have an intellectual attitude towards
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The World is Too Much With Us is a sonnet written when Wordsworth was 32 years old and is the perfect example of his message about the insensibility of man towards the beauty of nature. Written when the Industrial revolution was at its peak‚ it appears that to him‚ the world known to man is of too much beauty to be understandable by his fast moving pace and attachments to materialism; “Little we see in Nature that is ours; We have given our hearts away‚ a sordid boon!” This extract can be construed
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however‚ precludes his chance of “harvesting” the fruits of his mind‚ which become “ripen’d” only as the poet ages. These fruits‚ which are poetic works‚ grant the poet fame‚ represented by the “high-piled books” in line 3. The fear of obscurity was one Keats carried to his death only three years after composing “When I Have Fears That I May Cease To Be”. Though he had no way of knowing his life would indeed be cut short before he achieved the kind of recognition he sought‚ he echoes this concern in the
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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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Lord Alfred Tennyson‚ a consummate poetic artist‚ consolidated and refined the tradition bequeathed to him by his predecessors in the Romantic Movement (especially Wordsworth‚ Byron‚ Keats‚ Shelley). Beginning in the after math of Romantic Movement‚ Tennyson’s development as a poet is a romantic progression from introverted and inert states of mind towards emancipated consciousness. The growth of consciousness‚ and the relationship between the self and the world beyond‚ are fundamental concerns
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