John Keats

Robert Frost’s poem “Out, Out” consists of three essential elements that contribute in making this poem phenomenal. These elements include a theme, personification, and tone. Poets should include an impeccable theme to portray the underlying message of the poem. The use of personification aids the reader to paint a vivid description of an object in the reader’s mind. Tone is the third critical element and it portrays the poet’s attitude throughout the poem, which ultimately plays a role in…

Romanticism is understood as the time period where art, literature, and music transformed into an influential movement. Authors such as Lord Byron, John Keats, and William Wordsworth are seen as the faces of the period and throughout the course, were primarily the focal within this period. Bargained as a late Romantic and early Victorian, Matthew Arnold still had qualities of Romanticism as he expressed his self and his feelings within his dee dark prose. These authors not only exemplified what…

represent the Romantic-era, among which is William Wordsworth and William Blake. They were the oldest pioneering figures who were leading the literary movement. The younger pioneering figures of poets include Lord Byron, Percy Bysshe Shelley and John Keats. During the early nineteenth century, Lord Byron was a so popular poet who had a distinguishing style in writing his poems that were mainly connected to the concept of Romanticism in this era; consequently, he was a prominent romantic poet…

“The poems show love to be a complex and powerful emotion.” Discuss the ways in which the poets have presented the different aspects of love in the poems you have studied. The poem “La Belle Dame sans Merci” is written by John Keats in 1819, he is a romantic poet and was born in England in 1795. The poem is written in the form of a traditional ballad and is presented with eight beats per sentence for each twelve quatrains and a simple rhyme scheme of ABCB. The French title of the poem helps…

ESSAY ON : WILLIAM WORDSWORTH’S “LINES WRITTEN IN EARLY SPRING” R omanticism was an intellectual and artistic movement that started in the eighteenth century and reached its peak during the nineteenth century. The most prominent standards of Romanticism focused on expressing the human social status, the glorification of nature, childhood and spontaneity of primitive forms of society (before it becomes affected with the lust for wealth during the period of the industrial revolution.) also…

philosophy of nature is his irresistible love for nature as seen in Ancient Mariner where he took voyage to the wild seas away from the real world of men. Romantics gave a luxuriant display of natural objects. They adorned, devoted, loved, followed and accepted nature religiously. They had enjoyed various bonds, ties, and relationships with nature- it being their guide, friend, philosopher, generator, provider and many more. The Victorian Age was such a period in the history of English…

During Percy Shelley’s lifetime, he was not a well respected writer, but later he became a model for Romantic Poets. The society during his time period did not appreciate his views because they went against what was expected. He was not afraid to express his beliefs with the fear of society 's rejection. Although he had many criticisms, he still had influential factors in his life that contributed to the themes and stylistic elements of his poetry; the relationships he developed throughout his…

“On first looking into” the poem under study, one may discern some of its formal features. It is written by John Keats after first reading an awe-inspiring translation of Homer into English by Chapman. It rhymes ABBAABBACDCDCD and is dominated with the presence of the sound “I” that suggests a subjective individualistic quest of “poetic truth” in a seemingly lyric text. This is a sonnet made up of two stanzas which develop two aspects of a main theme: Homer’s poetry and its effects on the…

This weekend’s reading was over John Keats’ La belle dame sans merci and Mary Wollstonecraft’s A Vindication of the Rights of Women. The first reading by John Keats was translated from French as “The beautiful lady without mercy”. The beginning of the reading foreshadows, that the poem itself would be about women and how they have to use their bodies to get favors or services but on the contrary the reading itself tended to focus on how a man is affected by this system. The man, in this case a…

as pain and grief, “for there is nothing either good or bad, but thinking makes it so” (Hamlet 2.2). This complex paradox, between awareness through knowledge and ignorance, is explored by both Donald Justice in his Italian sonnet, “The Wall”, and John Keats’s poem, “Ode to a Nightingale”. In their works this is accomplished through careful choice of poetic form, the use of analogies that define the boundary between knowledge and ignorance, and dream or sleep imagery. These poems exemplify that…