“A Thing Of Beauty Is A Joy For Ever”: The Myth Of John Keats And His Portrayal In Bright Star

The adaptation of literature into film is a process that requires careful and experienced methods of cinematic attention to details according to crucial narrative aspects of the literary piece. The film industry has been creating visual versions of literature for quite some time, but the advancement of modern technology has opened the door to a world full of new and exciting possibilities in terms of visual and special effects. The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald is a timeless classic of the American literary canon, and is a popular choice for film adaptation because the vivid imagery and strategic symbolism of the plot that lends itself to visual recreation. Dixon (2003) comments on the problematic attempts of film adaptations of The Great Gatsby when he states, “…the various screenwriters and director who translated

The theme of Stargirl is to always be yourself, it’s the best person there is for you. It tells you to be a Stargirl, be different don’t follow the crowd. People will like you for you and if they don’t then it`s their loss. It teaches you valuable lessons, like to never let people come in the way if you really love someone. To just push them aside and let you make the choice, what`s more important my peers or someone that I love? They give many examples of this in the book, here are some….. ~`` We did not know what to do make of her. In our minds we tried to pin her to a cork board like a butterfly, but the pin merely went through and she flew away.`` - pg. 15 This piece of figurative language is saying they tried to change her, or put her into place. But when they tried, she barely changed and striated from the crowd. ~It was during one of these night moon times that it came to me that Hillari Kimble was wring. Stargirl was real.``-pg.12 This is saying that he thought about Stargirl and she was just really being herself, and she was different but it was ok. ~``. The lie dormant and waiting, these mud frogs, for without water their lives are incomplete, they are not fully themselves. For many months the sleeps like this within the earth. And then the rain comes. And a hundred pairs o eyes pop out of the mud, and at night a

Literary devices will be a primary source used to compare and contrast the narrative and stylistic choices made in the short story, “Harrison Bergeron” by Kurt Vonnegut, and the film 2081 directed by Chandler Tuttle. In the film the director is able to express visuals, sounds, and physical characters, to establish a firm idea of how the characters within the story act and feel based on their surroundings and what is happening around them. However, an Author in a short story is reliant on his words alone to paint the picture for the reader to understand the movement of the plot and its impact on the atmosphere. The literary devices used in creating and shaping pieces of literature will heavily impact the point of view of the

In the poem “Stars Over the Dordogne” by Sylvia Plath, the author illustrates a message by using different techniques. The message slowly develops as the readers go throughout the piece, however all the techniques are effective and leave an impact on the audience. Moreover, it causes the audience to have different views throughout the piece. The message in this poem is about how everyone has a different perspective on the world. The author shows this, by using imagery, personification, and shift to develop a message.

No matter what happens in one’s life, the sun still comes up every day and the stars still shine brightly each night. In “Bright Star” by John Keats and “Choose Something Like a Star” by Robert Frost, both authors compare elements of nature, such as stars, to the things in one’s life. Through soft diction, peaceful imagery, and figurative language such as similes, Keats seeks to convey that people should cherish even the little things in life. In “Chose Something Like a Star,” Frost includes dark imagery, brutal diction, and personification to prove that like the stars, some things remain constant in one’s life.

Whenever books are adapted for film, changes inevitably have to be made. The medium of film offers several advantages and disadvantages over the book: it is not as adept at exploring the inner workings of people - it cannot explore their minds so easily; however, the added visual and audio capabilities of film open whole new areas of the imagination which, in the hands of a competent writer-director, can more than compensate.

Despite having an archetypal storyline, The Princess Bride proves to be anything but predictable. From the moment the title appears onscreen in a font that evokes classic fairy tales such as Sleeping Beauty, it is clear the story is going to be rooted in fantasy. Following the appearance of the title comes the sound of a child’s cough as the black screen gives way to the graphics a baseball video game. The camera pans around the room to reveal posters of Chicago Cubs and Bears players, and soon rests on a child, presumably the source of the cough. Thus, the mise-en-scene has introduced to one of our two narrators, the other being the child’s grandfather who comes to read him a story. Though the novel read by the grandfather conveys a hackneyed tale of undying love, the film frames this in a self-aware way with periodic interruption of the story’s narrative by comments from young boy which are cynical at first, by grow to reflect a genuine interest as the movie progresses. This move is self-reflexive in that it reminds the audience that they are, in fact, watching a move; however, this serves to elevate the meaning of the film. Through the use of sound, editing, and mise-en-scene, The Princess Bride emphasizes that even though the concept of true love has saturated society and become cliché, it’s no less potent because of the cultural overplay. I will specifically discuss the utilization of deep focus shots, color, and lighting that caricaturize the traditional fairy tale,

“Ships at a distance have every man’s wish on board. For some they come in with the tide…others they sail forever.” (1) The vessel of hope and dreams may fulfill the wishes of men, men who may see these dreams as either being fulfilled or not, an external reward for external efforts. For women, however, their dreams are the “truth,” a truth that women, in a proto-feminist narrative, are able to have on their own, without the influence of men. Moreover, the dreams of women have are inherently the prize and the truth. Here we are introduced to the action of the novel by a third-person narrator who sounds eloquent, educated, and factual, related to us the outside frame tale of Janie returning to town as the sun sets, and how she is seen by the people sitting on the porch as she encoutners he old friend Pheoby. The factual account of Janie ‘s return is quietly transitioned into the metaphorical narrative as if with the presence of Janie, the story must likewise be changed. Hurston relates the porch-sitters, an element of rural folklife, as “lords of sounds and lesser things…they made burning statements with questions, and killing tools out of laughs “ (Hurston,

In the essay ‘“Oh, I see…’: The Birds and the Culmination of Hitchcock’s Hyper-Romantic Vision,” John McCombe attempts to connect The Birds to literary Romanticism. McCombe begins by citing a text from Robin Wood’s book Hitchcock’s Films Revisited. In the text, Wood discusses how Hitchcock controls the audience through editing and camera movement like a poet controls the reader through verse rhythms. To illustrate his point, Woods discusses how traumatic horror is conveyed in E.M. Forster’s A Passage to India and Hitchcock’s film. Woods conclude that it is better conveyed through visual images in Hitchcock’s film rather than through the text in the novel. Because of this, Hitchcock is considered to be more of a poet than a novelist.

As seen throughout the Romantic Period, proper description and visualization of setting served as crucial to the overall feel and overtone for a poem. Keats’ masterful composition of “Bright Star” exemplifies his vivid imagery as a star is described to hang lonely in the night and personified as forever awake with “eternal lids apart”. He dreams of lying on his “fair love’s ripening breast... to hear her tender-taken breath.” Keats’ imagery serves to stir emotion within the reader and relate intangible concepts to those that can be related. His depictions of severe circumstances are filled with

In recent years, it has become popular for many of America's great literary masterpieces to be adapted into film versions. As easy a task as it may sound, there are many problems that can arise from trying to adapt a book into a movie, being that the written word is what makes the novel a literary work of art. Many times, it is hard to express the written word on camera because the words that express so much action and feeling can not always be expressed the same way through pictures and acting. One example of this can be found in the comparison of Ken Kesey's novel, "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, and the film version directed in 1975 by Milos Forman.

The poems “Bright Star” by John Keats and “Choose Something Like a Star” by Robert Frost are apostrophes that compare the desired and undesired qualities of a star with an aspect of their lives. The authors use personification, diction, metaphor and allusion and both poems address a theme of steadfastness and perpetuity in love and life. Both poems are apostrophes but differ in to whom the speaker of each poem is speaking to and what each speaker wants from the star its self. In Keats’ poem, the speaker directly addresses the star, “Bright star! would I were steadfast as thou art--” (1).

     The historical significance of The Starry Night mirrors the events taking place during this era of modernity. During this time, scientists, writers and artists were seeking nontraditional ways of thinking. While scientists were learning about humans and physics in ways that had not been used before, and philosophers were finding new theories of life, writers and artists were disregarding old ways of writing and painting, and

becoming any worse in the future since “a thing of beauty is a joy for

Whether you fancy reading a book or watching a film, whether you consider yourself a bookworm or a movie enthusiast, or perhaps both or even something else entirely; there is bound to be something suitable for your tastes and preferences. In our day and age, many books often get adapted into films. This change of discourse undoubtedly affects the way we perceive the piece. An example for a book that has been adapted into a movie is the young adult novel “The Fault in Our Stars” by American author John Green.