it can entrench itself into the folds of history as truly immortal. Two Romantic poems that engage wonderfully with these themes are Percy Bysshe Shelley’s “Ozymandias” and John Keats’ “Ode on a Grecian Urn”. Although they take opposite approaches--Shelley uses “Ozymandias” to express the mutability of life‚ while Keats uses the Urn to show that art can be timeless--both poems revolve around an object struggling against the passing of time. Both “Ozymandias” and “Ode on a Grecian urn” exemplify the
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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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John Keats poems "Ode to a Nightingale" and "Ode on a Grecian Urn" seem to have been written with the intention of describing a moment in one’s life‚ like that of the fleeting tune of a nightingale or a scene pictured on an urn. Within each of these moments a multitude of emotions are established‚ with each morphing from one to another very subtly. What is also more subtle about these two poems is their differences. While they do touch on very similar topics‚ the objects used to personify Keats’ ideas
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John Keats‚ a poet of the romantic era‚ composed this poem in the spring of 1819. Being a poet of the Romantic era‚ he was a Nature lover‚ but instead of looking at Nature as a guide or teacher‚ he was in pursuit of beauty within Nature. The romantic poets emphasized on emotions‚ they believed in the power of imagination and experimented with new ideas and concepts. Keats is generally considered the most tragic of the Romantic poets as he was faced by a series of sad experiences in his life. The
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How Does the House Reinforce Sylvie’s Transience? From the beginning of Marilynne Robinson’s Housekeeping‚ the house was a symbol of family and wellness (wholeness) and was an important entity that interconnected all of the main characters of Housekeeping. Sylvie‚ on the other hand‚ was a ragtag thirty-five-year-old woman that had recently come back to this house to care for her nieces Ruth and Lucille. Before Sylvie’s return‚ Ruth and Lucille had lived relatively normal lives‚ being very average
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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 the
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In the sixth stanza‚ Keats completely overthrows rationality by having the speaker claim‚ “for a many a time I have been half in love with easeful Death” (Lines 51-52). If rationality is all about self-preservation‚ and if many philosophers looked down on suicide as a desire rather than any real need‚ Keats has created a speaker that is seemingly entranced by death‚ thinking it “rich to die‚ / To cease upon the midnight with no pain” (Lines 55-56). The transcendence of death from a physical plane
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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 Lamb"
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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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shapes and gives to airy nothing A local habitation and a name. (5.1.7-12). This stanza taken from Shakespeare’s A Midsummer Nights Dream delightfully describes the romantic concept of imagination held by both Samuel Taylor Coleridge‚ and John Keats. For many Romantic writers imagination is creation: "...The living power and prime agent of all human perception‚ and is a repetition in the finite mind of the eternal act of creation in the infinite I am". According to this statement from Coleridge’s
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