A native of London, England, John Keats was born on October 31, 1795 and devoted his life to poetry marked by his bright use of imagery, sensuous appeal and philosophical ideas. Although his life and writing career of less than six years was very short-lived, his poetic achievements are extraordinary. Keats believed that reality is determined by knowledge. Therefore, most of his poems stem from internal conflicts. Several of his great works including “Ode to a Nightingale” and “Ode on a Grecian Urn” characterizes Keats as a visionary. His poems contain a wide range of imagery of all bodily environments including vision, smell, hearing, touch, pressure, weight, ravenousness desire, sexuality and movement. Keats repeatedly combines different
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In “Ode to a Nightingale,” Keats presents the interconnection of feelings and focuses on immediate, feelings and sensations that enable the reader to draw an overall conclusion. For example, “In a melodious plot of beechen green . . .” combines sound and sight (411). “Nor what soft incense hangs upon the boughs, . . .” (412) In this quote the senses of touch, weight, and smell are conveyed to the reader. Each of these quotes from the text serve as examples of the writer expressing mixtures of feeling and senses to the …show more content…
In this poem, no visionary dreamer or attempted flight from reality is present, but everything is grounded in the real world accompanied with vivid, physical imagery that plunges the readers’ sense of vision and sensation. Keats accepts the natural world with its mixture of harvests, fulfillment and death. In stanza 1, autumn and the sun “load and bless” (414) by ripening the fruit. Eventually, the apples become so numerous that their weight bends the trees and the gourds “swell” and the hazelnuts “plump” (414). The hazard of being overwhelmed by fruitfulness that has no end is suggested to the reader in the floret and bees’ images. Process of change is also suggested by the reference to the bees storing honey since the summer (414). Keats balances living and dying, the pleasant and unpleasant, because they are indistinguishably one. He accepts the reality of the assorted nature of the
In “Ode to a Nightingale,” Keats presents the interconnection of feelings and focuses on immediate, feelings and sensations that enable the reader to draw an overall conclusion. For example, “In a melodious plot of beechen green . . .” combines sound and sight (411). “Nor what soft incense hangs upon the boughs, . . .” (412) In this quote the senses of touch, weight, and smell are conveyed to the reader. Each of these quotes from the text serve as examples of the writer expressing mixtures of feeling and senses to the …show more content…
In this poem, no visionary dreamer or attempted flight from reality is present, but everything is grounded in the real world accompanied with vivid, physical imagery that plunges the readers’ sense of vision and sensation. Keats accepts the natural world with its mixture of harvests, fulfillment and death. In stanza 1, autumn and the sun “load and bless” (414) by ripening the fruit. Eventually, the apples become so numerous that their weight bends the trees and the gourds “swell” and the hazelnuts “plump” (414). The hazard of being overwhelmed by fruitfulness that has no end is suggested to the reader in the floret and bees’ images. Process of change is also suggested by the reference to the bees storing honey since the summer (414). Keats balances living and dying, the pleasant and unpleasant, because they are indistinguishably one. He accepts the reality of the assorted nature of the