John Keats Poetry Synthesis Essay

At first glance, the reader notices that the poem is divided into two parts in order to resemble a conversation. When reading the sonnet for the first time the reader may make the mistake in thinking that what the “echo” replies is an answer to the questions the “voice” asks. But in reality the “echo” isn’t replying to the “voice” but is actually performing its normal job. The “echo” only repeats back the last prominent sounds

A sonnet is a poem of fourteen lines that rhyme in a particular pattern. William Shakespeare’s sonnets were the only non-dramatic poetry that he wrote. Shakespeare used sonnets within some of his plays, but his sonnets are best known as a series of one hundred and fifty-four poems. The series of one hundred and fifty-four poems tell a story about a young aristocrat and a mysterious mistress. Many people have analyzed and contemplated about the significance of these “lovers”. After analysis of the content of both the “young man” sonnets and the “dark lady sonnets”, it is clear that the poet, Shakespeare, has a great love for the young man and only lusts after his mistress.

At the beginning of the sonnet the author starts the reflection about the purpose of life, and how adulthood change it. Analyzing the form of the first lines of the poem (AB) those seems liked as a continuity connection. Jarman

I feel lost in the million trails of this mountain. Seeing the beautiful moonlight as it drifts away like a butterfly. Wishing, I could play the piano keys again. Memories of my childhood, coming back to haunt me. But yet, here I am, lost in this wilderness. This short poem I wrote when I was in high school. I was going through a lot of family problems my brother had cancer, and my younger sister was going through depression. I turned to poetry to hide away the pain that I was feeling. In poetry there are several genres, but the three main ones are lyric, narrative and dramatic.

For anyone interested in learning more about the inner life, about consciousness and mystical insight, the works of the poets are a great resource and peace to discover extra sensory delights to learn metaphysical secrets, to awaken to the possibilities of enlightenment, to fall in love with divine, to swing from universality, to the tender being of things here and now and in the end to come to a larger understanding of ourselves. Poetry is the natural speech of mysticism. Because the imagery and tone of a poem can convey more than ordinary words can express, poetic language is used to describe what would otherwise be inexpressible. Through image and tone, a poem can alhide to an abstract experience or evoke a feeling that captures the aftereffect of a mystical moments even though the moment itself may have been beyond words.

Shakespeare wanting these sonnets to go to the young man, in order to persuade him into a pro life and a procreation lifestyle, repeated the message in order to get his point across. The stories that are told or the examples that are placed within the sonnets do not repeat. Yet with the message, as well as the light and dark compare and contrast happening, helps to Shakespeare to get his point across to the young man. The young man, being the audience of the sonnets, was the audience for all of them. Since he was the one and only person that these were meant for, Shakespeare was able to personalize the work of sonnets in order to make certain that the message hit home with the young man.

This source discussed the sonnet and lyric (the basis of my project.) It states that a lyric is the genre of internal and individualized emotions. It’s seen as a moment of “personal experience.” (33) The traditional emotion that is associated with the sonnet is love. Both the lyric and the sonnet are connected with song and music. I want to go more in-depth on how loss and death can affect the lyric and sonnet as well, without going into elegy land. This source was very informative on the basics of a sonnet and a lyric—such as how the sonnet has a twist and the lyric is more problematic than one would think. What more goes into a lyric then? (MAYBE) The approach this source is taking is showing the ways a sonnet represents and doesn’t represent a lyric. How exactly are they different and the same? Sonnets are a lyric because of the emotional base put into them. It mentions that in the Romantic peiord, sonnets were not blank-verse and strayed from the conventional form. They used everyday language. That brings up the question as to how did that incorporate into Keats’ sonnets? This source also begs the question, which I agree with, “who determines when something is a lyric or a sonnet?” (28) The lyric was something that could be private or social. What made a sonnet more intimate between reader and poet (though many sonnets were published in newspapers, especially during the Romantic period.) The length can prove to be a problem for sonnets is an issue that this source

Sonnet XX, stands out to being a pivotal moment in Shakespeare’s sonnet writing, his first play was starting to take off, and with that so was his carrier. Though the sonnet touches on many things from his love of another man, to what love was to him and how it was all controlled by nature. He did this through diction, imagery, and symbolisms. His Tone and Mood, changing through the sonnet makes, the poetry flow like his emotions seems to do, when talking about the rival poet, who he seems to love.

I chose to compare two poems that we did not have a chance to discuss in class; “Musee des Beaux Arts,” by W.H. Auden and “Theology,” by Ted Hughes. Both of these works are deeply profound poems about the complexity and collective connection of life. They question what the modernized, ego fueled, life experiences truly is and draw focus to the disconnections we suffer through the artificial society built around us. What Hughes managed to create with “Theology,” is absolutely astounding! In three short stanzas, he encompasses the problem with the modern worldly perspectives that we are spoon fed through our most powerful institutions. Auden was inspired by Pieter Brueghel’s paintings when he wrote “Musee des Beaux Arts,” which elaborates on

He had examined different parts of love and descried to explain them in a sonnet; where as other poets have written poems with different forms and structure on their points of views about relationships and

Thomas Keats and Frances Jennings gave birth to John Keats on 31 October 1795 at his grandfather’s livery stable in London, United Kingdom.(“Keats, John (1795-1821).”) His father died in a riding accident when John was only 8 years old. As for John’s mother, she died when he was 14 years old due to tuberculosis.(“Keats, John (1795-1821).”) John had two younger brothers, George and Tom, and a younger sister named Fanny. John and his brother’s George and their younger brother went to John Clarke’s school at Enfield. Keats got guidance, encouragement and a strong friendship from his teacher, Charles Cowden Clarke.(“John Keats”.) Charles was the headmaster and a person of a strong literary interests and radical political

     The sonnet, being one of the most traditional and recognized forms of poetry, has been used and altered in many time periods by writers to convey different messages to the audience. The strict constraints of the form have often been used to parallel the subject in the poem. Many times, the first three quatrains introduce the subject and build on one another, showing progression in the poem. The final couplet brings closure to the poem by bringing the main ideas together. On other occasions, the couplet makes a statement of irony or refutes the main idea with a counter statement. It leaves the reader with a last impression of what the author is trying to say.

The aim of this article is an attempt to know the different moods of the poet John Keats how Keats moves from Negation to Affirmation how he reacted against problems, how he turned between reality and unreality, joys and sufferings, imagination and reason, and how he turned towards poetry. The poet who once declared that he wanted to “fade for away, dissolve and quite

Like many poets, John Keats has had a very troubling and traumatic life and it shows in his writings of poetry. Death and many other awful troubles causing him to have a life that anyone would feel horrible in. John Keat’s poetry has many dark recurring themes. One speculation is that his poetry was an escape from his melancholy filled life. There are many aspects to Keats’s life that could have been motivation to write his poetry. One would say that he connected works of poetry with the events of his life.

In “To Autumn,” a poem by John Keats, we see a multi-leveled examination of mortality concealed within a seemingly simple ode to the fall season. The poem opens with an overwhelming appeal to the senses. Anyone familiar with the common motifs of Autumn will identify heavily with the first stanza, for Autumn is a time of ripening pumpkins and relaxed musings. The second stanza has a tone reminiscent of the feeling that accompanies the end of a hard day’s work. However, as the second part of this poem ends, the reader feels a dull pang of some unidentified negative emotion. This emotion is similar to the guilt of relaxed, yet hardworking men who are too proud to be lazy, even for a moment. The ending stanza of the poem arrives and passes like the end of Autumn, swiftly (Keats 763-764). The speaker in the poem seems to be scrambling to appreciate the wonders of Autumn before the swift, bitter end. The progression of ideas, imagery, and tone are highly reminiscent to the thoughts of a man who, at the end of his life, is trying to find meaning and beauty in his life as he approaches his swift, bitter end. The poignancy of this poem is found in the distinct levels by which Keats communicates emotions. In the progression of Keats’ “To Autumn,” there are three basic levels of understanding: the outright evolution of ideas seen in the initial reading, the contradictory tone changes, and the subtle paradoxes found