Hyperion And Keats Comparison

Poseidon, god of the sea, believes Odysseus should suffer throughout his journey because of his hubris, also known as, excessive pride. In the beginning of The Odyssey, Odysseus claims he conquers Troy by himself and he does not need the gods anymore. This makes Poseidon furious, knowing he is the one who answers Odysseus’ request for help during the Trojan War. He curses Odysseus, letting him know he is nothing without the gods. In “The Cyclops” episode, Polyphemus cries to Poseidon, “ ‘O hear me, lord … grant that Odysseus, raider of cities,

While both Keats and Longfellow often reflect on their own unfulfilled dreams and impending deaths, the poems however contrast on their own dispositions towards death and the future. Here, Keats expresses a fear of not having enough time to accomplish all that he believes he is capable of doing, but as he recognizes the enormity of the world and his own limitations of life, he realizes that his own mortal goals are meaningless in the long run of things. On the other hand, Longfellow speaks of a regret towards his inaction for allowing time to slip away from him in his past and is at a crossroads for the ominous future that looms ahead of him. Through the use of light and dark imagery, and personification, Keats and Longfellow similarly yet also differently, reflect on their own ideas for death and the futures that lay ahead of them.

Hesiod’s gods lost their carelessness and gaiety of the Homeric gods, became the moral forces, severe guardians of order and justice, born of Zeus. The role of gods according to Hesiod belongs not only the Olympian gods with human form, like Zeus or Apollo, but the Earth, Sky, Star, Wind, Fight, Lies, Victory, Wisdom, violence, etc. Zeus as for Hesiod is not just carrier of the power, as Uranus and Kronus, but also the embodiment of a long-awaited order, keeper and guardian of ethics. The desire to have a better life and a constant feeling of dissatisfaction are natural for people, and the gods tend, on the contrary, to complicate people’s lives and create new difficulties. Thus, the Hesiod’s style of poetry is close to Homer’s one, but because of the general didactic orientation Hesiod’s poetry is almost out of bright Homeric metaphors, similes and epithets.

Again, the gods’ warned of revenge if Odysseus’ men did not obey them in not eating the cattle. Yet, while Odysseus was sleeping, Eurylochus convinced Odysseus’ men to eat the cattle (Homer 408). When the Sun god Helios found that Odysseus’ men had slaughtered his cattle, he rallied to the gods to strike revenge on them. Helios sought out revenge by asking Zeus, “’Father Zeus! The rest of you blissful gods who never die-punish them all, that crew of Laertes’ son Odysseus…’”(Homer 409). Zeus responded with vengeance by striking Odysseus’ boat with a lightening bolt and killing his men (Homer 410). By Zeus striking Odysseus’ boat with a lightening bolt and killing his men, the reader is definitely aware of the severity of revenge associated with disobeying a god; especially the most powerful of all gods. This severity greatly shows the important role that revenge plays in the poem and the affect revenge has on Odysseus.

The titans overthrow their father Uranos with their mother’s help, but before Uranos can be banished into Tartarus, he prophesizes that his son Cronos would be overthrown by his own children. In fear of his father’s curse, Cronos swallows his offspring as soon as they are born. To protect her youngest child, his wife Rhea hides Zeus and gives Cronos a rock instead of her son. Over the years, Zeus develops a plan to save his siblings and end Cronos’ tyranny, ultimately freeing them. As a result, the Titanomachy–a war between gods and titans–ensues, with the outcome of the gods’ victory and the establishment of the new era with Zeus as king of the gods.

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.

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

That is, Poseidon avidly pursued Odysseus, throughout his journey back to Ithaca, as he had blinded his son, Polyphemus; for example, in Book 5, he creates a storm and shipwrecks Odysseus. Likewise, Juno persuades Aeolus, king of the winds, to create a storm that is consequently stopped by Neptune: A howling gust from due north took the sail aback and lifted wavetops to heaven.[3] These two comparisons of Juno with Hera and Poseidon, depict the Virgilian goddess as being hateful, resentful and vengeful. The fact that Virgil links Juno with the Homeric gods also gives her character an element of seriousness and austerity.

The second of Homer’s greatest epics, The Odyssey, begins in medias res with a separated father and son facing vastly different identity crises, with Odysseus traveling the islands of the Mediterranean Sea to find his home of Ithaca, while his son, Telemachus, attempts to find his own individuality as a leader and understand both himself and his father. After insulting and tempting the wrath of the god of the sea, Poseidon, Odysseus encounters many arduous challenges before arriving home, as Poseidon vows to return Odysseus to his homeland of Ithaca “a broken man.” Throughout Book 9, the conflict between Odysseus and Poseidon is initiated, establishing the discord of mortal man versus god and demonstrating the role of god as a greater, controlling in human fate.

In the Odyssey by Homer, the gods and goddesses throughout held a very heavy influence in determining the fates of the main characters and serve as their helpers and guides, however some gods are cruel and bent on destruction of the heroes, like Poseidon. Following eighteen days at sea, travelling back home from being held prisoner by the sea-nymph Calypso at Ogygia for seven years, Odysseus is spotted by Poseidon from the distant mountains of the Solymi and he realises what the other gods have done in his absence from visiting the Ethiopians. Poseidon stirred up the sea and roused a storm, which nearly drags Odysseus under the sea. The gods are very similar to the human characters whose lives they manipulate and influence as they all have

In the Odyssey, interventions by Jupiter is due to his role as arbiter of justice. He sets Odysseus free from Ogygia due to Athene's reminder of his past piety ("sacrifices he made you by the Argive's ships" O.1.63) and of his righteousness as a king ("that admirable King!...ruled like a loving father" O.5.11). She declares that if Odysseus is not set free then the gods are not just. The theme of justice is emphasised at the very start of the poem, with the Proem's reference to the "transgressions" of Odysseus' crew bringing them doom. It is reiterated in the final book as the suitors are killed by the divine agent Odysseus ("victims to the will of the gods and their own infamy" O.22.414). Though it is Jupiter that supervises the course of destiny in both books, in one he is the arbiter of justice and the other of Fate. Fate in the Aeneid is assured from the start and it is an inexorable path, but in the Odyssey men decide their fate. Odysseus' men did not have to eat the cattle of Hyperion but after they had, then they were destined to die ("if you leave them untouched...there is some chance...but if you hurt them, then I predict destruction" O.12.137). Odysseus is allowed to leave Ogygia in Book 5 but it is his choice to leave, despite the nymph Calypso's appeals ("take on immortality" O.5.207, "Nevertheless I long to reach my

The interactions between gods and gods is clear from book 1 where Juno is fuming because her favoured city Carthage has been prophesized to be destroyed by Trojans. She calls on Aeolus to let free the ‘brawling winds and howling storms’ [1.54] to keep Aeneas and his men from reaching their destiny in return for the most beautiful nymph. Aelous gives his consent to this and the trojans face a sudden and violent storm. However, Neptune god of the ocean does not appreciate this and calms the storm down ‘he [aeolus] is not the one who has jurisdiction over the sea or holds the trident that knows no pity. That is my responsibility, given to me by my lot.’ [1.137-140] this shows even

The twenty-four old romantic poet John Keats, “Ode on a Grecian Urn” written in the spring of 1819 was one of his last of six odes. That he ever wrote for he died of tuberculosis a year later. Although, his time as a poet was short he was an essential part of The Romantic period (1789-1832). His groundbreaking poetry created a paradigm shift in the way poetry was composed and comprehended. Indeed, the Romantic period provided a shift from reason to belief in the senses and intuition. “Keats’s poem is able to address some of the most common assumptions and valorizations in the study of Romantic poetry, such as the opposition between “organic culture” and the alienation of modernity”. (O’Rourke, 53) The irony of Keats’s Urn is he likens

John Keats’s “Ode on a Grecian Urn” is written through the power of eternity, beauty and truth regardless of existence, as Wordsworth showed likewise. Keats illustrated his poem through love in its sublime. For example, in the first stanza he says, “What wild ecstasy?” (Keats 930). If ecstasy is a huge feeling of

Keats was very aware of his own mortality and his poetry reflected the intensity and the passion of a man who didn't have very long to live. His poetry remains some of the densest prose ever penned because, like his brief existence, he had to condense so much life into so little space. The thought of impending death would be enough to make anyone fall into hopeless despair but Keats's incredible talents and commitment to live in the moment perhaps allowed him to three lifetimes.