Analysis Of John Keats 's Poem

The similarities between the poems lie in their abilities to utilize imagery as a means to enhance the concept of the fleeting nature that life ultimately has and to also help further elaborate the speaker’s opinion towards their own situation. In Keats’ poem, dark and imaginative images are used to help match with the speaker’s belief that both love and death arise from fate itself. Here, Keats describes the beauty and mystery of love with images of “shadows” and “huge cloudy symbols of a high romance” to illustrate his belief that love comes from fate, and that he is sad to miss out on such an opportunity when it comes time for his own death.

From the first few lines Keats alludes to the great romances of the previous ages as opposed to William Shakespeare's great tragedies. While it could be discerned that Keats is referring to his poem

Nevertheless, what Keats is trying to get at here is that autumn has finished all her work, and there is nothing to do but wait for winter, so she is going to be lazy and enjoy what all her hard work has brought her as she watches the “last oozings” (l. 22) of the

The similarities in the poem deal with similar topics expressed throughout the poem dealing with Keats’ and Longfellow’s fear of death. Differences between the two include the structure and the different images, metaphors and diction that they give off along with their different train of thoughts while writing the two poems. Their thoughts of the subject of death are able to relate to a variety of people because everyone is just human and cannot last forever. Just as these two poems show similar ideas can branch off into many different ideas and interpretations. The desire to continue to

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

Keats introduces the summation of the poem early, in the second part of the last line in quatrain four. This choice reflects how great his impending death weighs on his mind. In the final couplet, Keats’s dark views of love leave him to “stand alone” and not experience the love mentioned in the previous quatrain. Of course, “alone” might not necessarily mean devoid of love; he could mean that he’s alone because of his hopeless thoughts on the subject. Or he could mean he is alone because he does not have the emblems “Love” and “Fame.” “Wide world” dwarfs him, making it even sadder that in spite of all the vast opportunities he has had with different cultures,

Both poems are sonnets that focus on early death; however, each poet displays different emotions for life and death in their poems. On the one hand, Keats displays an optimistic view of life, but is contemptuous towards death since it will mark an unwanted end to his artistic, romantic, and countless other endeavors. On the other, Longfellow distrusts life and fears death. As an indicator of these contrasting sentiments, the poets not only use significantly different types of poems, but they also differ in their rhetorical devices’ purposes in the shared iambic pentameter structure. In particular, they use imagery, diction, mechanical devices and metaphors in varying extents and purposes.

This sentence is picked up from ‘When you are old’, a love poem written by an Irish poet called William Butler Yeats. Although he was tortured by the unrequited love, he still strongly expressed his admire to the only love of his life (Poetry foundation, 2016).

In a world full of hostility and loss of faith surrounded by war and technological developments, he modernist era of literature developments, the modernists era of literature arose. The sinking of the Titanic symbolized the falling of the Great Britain empire and newly invented standardized time allowed war to become even deadlier than before due to the ability to organize attacks. Due to this new world full of bloodshed and new mechanical inventions, the world was falling further and further away from God. William Butler Years expresses his sudden collapse of society in his poem “The Second Coming”, first composed in January of 1919. The hopelessness of mankind is addressed by Keats’ statement that man cannot save us, God cannot save us,

The poems To Sleep by John Keats and The Pains of Sleep by Samuel Taylor Coleridge appear to discuss the joy and agony in sleeping; however, the poetry reveals a deeper meaning than sleep alone with insight into events in the individual poets’ life. Poetry is unique, every reader may have a different interpretation than the previous reader, and there is no such thing as a correct reading of a poem. The interpretation of the following poetry starts out discussing sleep; though, with evidence, this reading will prove to reveal a more substantial meaning that heavily relates to the life of the poet in question.

“Bright Star” is thought to be the last sonnet that John Keats ever wrote before tuberculosis caused his untimely death in 1821, and the person to whom he was writing to is his fiancée, Fanny Brawne. During Keats’ time, he was known as the William Shakespeare of the Sonnet. Movements that were going on during the time of “Bright Star,” was meant to write poems on the suffering of the human heart, and his suffering had to do with his love. The poem itself was written in April of 1818, while he was traveling on a ship to Rome, Italy. Moreover, the main theme that recurs throughout the sonnet, is the idea of eternity. This is the reason why the narrator focuses on the star so highly, in that much like the theme, a star is also eternal. But, over the course of this poem, it becomes clear that the narrator does not want an eternity that is spent alone like the star, but rather an eternity with his love. In “Bright Star,” Keats’ main idea deals with the love and appreciation of things that are unchanging.

John Keats expressed one major message in each of the poems called On First Looking Into Chapman’s Homer, When I Have Fears That I May Cease to Be, Ode to a Nightingale, and Ode on a Grecian Urn. Keats used several messages to express his poems, therefore becoming well known for his poetic talent. In the poem On First Looking Into Chapman’s Homer, John Keats emphasizes the message of ambition and exploitation of nature and striving to become better. His poem about fears is about his fear

In the art piece, there is a bed of water underneath the ships and the boat. The fluidity and movement of the waves are symbolic of the transition between imagination and reality. Keats’ desire to escape is shown through the rough brush strokes of the blue waves in the foreground. This suggests the transition to be difficult and problematic. The colour of the sea, blue, has connotations of serenity and peace suggesting the fate of Keats once the transition is complete. Keats longs to escape reality as he describes reality as ‘where men sit and hear each other groan’. This depicts reality to be tedious and dreary, which results in him loathing this concept. The word ‘groan’ is an expression that conveys dread and despair, therefore Keats feels this way towards reality due to its monotonous and depressing characteristics. The action of ‘groaning’ portrays an unappealing view of the world that Keats is longing to escape when conversing with the nightingale. Furthermore, the elongation of the word ‘groan’ suggests the tedious and tiring effort to stay within the normal world and emphasises Keats desire to escape from and seek asylum in the nightingale’s world. Keats expresses this through his actions when he goes ‘Away! Away!’, this makes the reader question the society and world they live in, as Keats’ sole desire is to escape the very world they stay in now. In

Many messages are displayed in the literature of John Keats. Mostly throughout his stories he talks about himself and his feelings. And he really represents himself throughout his poems. One message can be found in each of the Keats poems, “On First Looking Into Chapman’s Homer”, “When I have Fears that I May Cease to Be “, “Ode to a nightingale”, and of course “Ode On a Grecian Urn”. Romance, forgotten fame, importance of knowledge, acceptance of death.

Oh, to melancholy a poem I wonder what your particular subject that Keats has infused into you. However, I can see that it can deal with sadness given the title and the poem is divided into three parts showed by the three roman numerals, have thirty lines, probably made in May. Though by reading the poem I find it to be an iambic pentameter but with an interesting pattern of ABAB CDECDE until the last stanza that ends with a CDEDCE instead. There is even a tropaic line “Sudden from heaven like a weeping cloud”, it stand out for a particular reason like the switch in the pattern or the break in the third stanza. Then the emotional curve starts low until it starts to curve upward from the start of stanza two to the word glut and rises till stanza three where it starts to level out but ends with the last four lines on a sour note. Next, the poem is an ode so there is a main underlining subject matter broken into three parts: Strophe, antistrophe, and epode. Therefore, the meaning I find is melancholy and beauty are intertwine where to understand one you would also understand the other.