Analysis Of John Keats

coming and didn’t want to be reminded of his sad fate. Keats went on to say: I

Keats’ father Benjamin worked as a waiter at a coffee shop in Greenwich Village and was therefore all too familiar with the struggle to make a better life for you and your family. Although he had a great appreciation for Keats’ work, he discouraged him from making it a career for fear that his son would not be able to support himself. On one occasion he went so far ¬¬ to purchase tubes of oil paint and then gave them to Keats under the false pretense that a starving artist had traded them for a bowl of soup. Fortunately for future readers of his works, Jack was not deterred from his passion for art. When Keats graduated from high school he was awarded the senior class medal for excellence in art. In a cruel twist of fate, his father Benjamin died of a heart attack the day before he was set to receive the award. Although his father never saw Jack receive the award, he learned of his support when asked to identify his father’s body. As he checked his father’s wallet after his death he found several preserved article clippings of all of his achievements. His father was proud of Keats and his work and remained a supporter until his last breath.

For centuries, humans have struggled with this idea that haunts their existence. The notion that feels like a far off dream that will never reach its destination; death “Death, be not proud,” by John Donne, “Because I could not stop for Death,” and “I heard a Fly buzz when I died,” both written by Emily Dickinson, explore the meaning of leaving this earth for good. The writers excellently depict the feelings that come with the thought of no longer living. They show that dying does not end on this earth but that something greater awaits. The poems “Death, be not proud,” “Because I could not stop for Death,” and “I heard a Fly buzz,” portray the meaning of death with excellence.

But, we should first and foremost put this sonnet back in its context. We can easily presume that it is autobiographic, thus that Keats reveals us his own worries. In 1818, he is aware that he has short time left to live due to the fatal illness

Mortality is a moving and compelling subject. This end is a confirmation of one’s humanity and the end of one’s substance. Perhaps that is why so many writers and poets muse about their own death in their writings. Keats and John Donne are two such examples of musing poets who share the human condition experience in When I Have Fears and Holy Sonnet 1.

Keats poem, “When I Have Fears” expresses the writer’s fear of dying before he is able to fulfill his life as a writer. He wants to experience fame, become a writer and find someone to love. The very first line of the poem tells us that he has a fear of dying, because it states, “When I have fears that I may cease to be,” (Keats, Line 1). It is later on in the poem that the readers find out why he fears death.

Emily Dickinson wrote a poem called “Because I could not stop for Death.” This poem is about death, how you should not be afraid of it. This poem is also about a woman accompanied by immortality, headed towards her final destination, which is eternity. She faces the fact that she does not have any control of death and just want it to take its course.

The narrator of the poem directly addresses Death. Within the poem the narrator of the poem personifies Death, which causes Death to become less threatening. While speaking to one of humanity’s greatest fears, the narrator attempts to persuade the audience to not live their live in fear of death, “From rest and sleep, which but thy pictures be,/ much pleasure”. The narrator chooses to view death as a time of rest for the physical body after years of being alive and active. Through further personification, the narrator describes Death as “Thou art a slave to fate, chance, kings, and desperate men”. Through this, Death shares a commonality with the reader, Death has an occupation; therefore Death is not free. While Death’s duty is to kill, the

John Keats’, “To One Who Has Been Long in City Pent,” is a Petrarchan sonnet that initially reads as a soft and sweet reflection of the speaker’s love of nature as a means of escaping the draining and claustrophobic city. While Keats draws more attention to the emotionally healing aspects of escaping into nature, he also includes subtle, yet grim images throughout the poem-- suggesting that perhaps this countryside escape is not as lighthearted as it may appear on the surface. In this paper, I will provide an explanation for the importance of Keats’ juxtaposition of the heavenly qualities of nature with the poem’s more muted, hidden images, to not only depict why this poem is absolutely genius as a cleverly disguised dark poem, but to highlight

In John Keats’s “When I Have My fears” and Henry Longfellow’s “Mezzo Cammin”, the poets share their outlook on death. Both writers filled themselves with the concern of dying before they created a fulfilling life. Although Keats and Longfellow both portrayed their similar theme using parallel structures and language, the two works differ in the two poets’ rhyme schemes and tones.

and she (and her brother) did die of that disease in 1809 (Keats).  Keats was,

John Keats did not have the luxury time that Wordsworth had to look to the past and reminisce about things that were because he knew he did not have long to live. Even from a young age Keats felt his life would be a short one and he so "he applied himself to his art with a desperate urgency". Keats died at twenty-six years old and managed to leave behind some of the greatest poetry ever written. He didn't bother to look toward the future because he knew that he wouldn't live to see it and he didn't look to the past because he decided that it was more important to live in the moment.

“Keats” Keatsian” or even “the Keats “are some of the names used to refer to the poet John Keats. The reason for this are profound and without question. He is and was a great poet and literary influence of the nineteenth century. I have will be terming him as the greatest poet of all time. However before we get into the story of John Keats the poet, and literary visionary. I first want to take you back to the man. His life and his ascension to greatness.

In “When I have Fears That I May Cease to Be” by John Keats, he paints an image of the beautiful nature. Throughout the poem, especially in lines 5-11 he describes the magnificence of the view. The tone of the poem starts off as having a worrisome tone,

“If Poetry comes not as naturally as Leaves to a tree it had better not come at all” (biography). John Keats was an English-born poet who was known for his sonnets, romances, and epics. He was a well-known romantic poet who was criticized because of his style of poetry. In his poems, Keats uses frequent themes such as death, the five senses, reality departures, and nature. As a romantic poet, John Keats uses imagery and emotion based themes as way to display his beliefs in his poetry.