You should be here‚ Nature has need of you. She has been laid waste. Smothered by the smog‚ the flowers are mute‚ and the birds are few in a sky slowing like a dying clock. All hopes of Proteus rising from the sea have sunk; he is entombed in the waste we dump. Triton’s notes struggle to be free‚ his famous horns are choked‚ his eyes are dazed‚ and Neptune lies helpless as beached as a whale‚ while insatiate man moves in for the kill. Poetry and piety have begun to fail‚ As Nature’s mighty
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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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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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John Keats The Eve of St Agnes Outline : 1- John Keats is an influential poet during the Romantic Era. 2- Keats managed to integrate thought‚ and the sequence of events. 3- The Eve of St Agnes is rich of description. 4- Keats focuses on the feeling of romantic. 5- Keats emphasized on the mystical idea of elves and fairies. Style and Imagery John Keats is an influential poet during the Romantic Era. He is known for his love of the country and sensuous descriptions
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SONNET 18 PARAPHRASE Shall I compare thee to a summer’s day? Shall I compare you to a summer’s day? Thou art more lovely and more temperate: You are more lovely and more constant: Rough winds do shake the darling buds of May‚ Rough winds shake the beloved buds of May And summer’s lease hath all too short a date: And summer is far too short: Sometime too hot the eye of heaven shines‚ At times the sun is too hot‚ And often is his gold complexion dimm’d; Or often goes behind the clouds;
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Similarities and differences in ‘La Belle Dame Sans Merci’ and ‘The Eve of St. Agnes.’ ‘La Belle Dame Sans Merci’ and ‘The Eve of St. Agnes’ by John Keats has various similarities and differences. They are both tales of love‚ highlighting Keats’ differing opinions on the ‘chase’ and the act of being in love. They also portray the challenges of life and love‚ using pathetic fallacy as a backdrop for the character’s emotions. Both poems have a man and a woman
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English 61: Some Concepts to Consider I Romantic Personae A. Wordsworth: close to Nature ‚ family and friends. 1. Believes we can only hope to retain in middle age some of the energy and enthusiasm for Nature we enjoyed in youth. Nature takes the place of Truth and Beauty in Plato’s philosophy of metempsychosis and anamnesis. Our birth is but a sleep and a forgetting: The Soul that rises with us‚ our life’s Star‚ Hath had elsewhere its setting‚ And cometh from afar: Not in
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Keats has been praised for the "richness of his language and imagery". Discuss what contribution you find this richness makes the effects of TWO poems. Keats uses language techniques‚ imagery and sound devices to help enhance the "richness" in his two odes‚ "Ode on Indolence" and "Ode on Melancholy". Keats uses simile‚ pathetic fallacy‚ metaphor‚ personification‚ transferred epithet and oxymoron to enhance the imagery. Keats also uses sibilance and alliteration to help create the mood of both
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very short poem‚ “My heart leaps up when I behold”‚ by William Wordsworth‚ the speaker begins by declaring that he is moved by nature‚ and especially by nature’s beauty and how he is excited when he sees the rainbow. He feels so excited inside his heart when he sees a beautiful rainbow in the sky. This is a very romantic poem in both form and structure of the poem itself. The format of the poem gives an excited feeling about human nature and forces the reader to pause at important points in the poem
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weather‚ and more. Recognizing its power‚ the speaker realizes that he could use the wind’s power. It could assist him in his work of poetry and prays that the wind will deliver his words across the land and through time how he does the same with the nature elements like with the leaf. (2) What is the poet’s ultimate aim to reach throughout the poem? (You can focus on especially the 4th and 5th stanzas of the poem.) In the fifth we can see clearly that the wind is a metaphor for the poet’s own
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