John Keats 's ' On First Looking Into Chapman 's Homer

An elevated concentration to the way the mind works is without a doubt one of the most significant attributes of Romantic poetry. In William Wordsworth’s poem, The Prelude, the poet allows several memories from his youth to be brought up again in his adulthood and looks to grasp onto these certain influences that have assisted in establishing his mind and could potentially help him become the best poet possible. John Keats described his idea of imagination to a friend in an 1877 letter: “I am certain of nothing save the holiness of the heart 's affections and the truth of the imagination. What the imagination seizes as Beauty must be truth, whether it existed before or not.” The obsession that Keats had with the imaginative idea to escape from everyday life led him to write The Fall of Hyperion. Both poets use cognitive interpretations as a way to express inner beliefs about the human mind or imagination. Like mentioned in class, Wordsworth begins with his alienation experiences in Prelude 1 and concludes with his adjustment statements in Prelude 11 and 13 and Keats’ development within The Fall shows the start of a happy innocence into a rather painful maturity.

Reading a piece of literature, whether it be a novel, poem or short story, can provide a sense of excitement, or allow the reader to experience a whole new world. The sonnet, “On First Looking into Chapman’s Homer”, written by John Keats, describes his feelings of discovery and delight after reading Chapman’s translation of the works written by a very well-known and legendary Greek poet, Homer. Through tone and figurative language, Keats is able to convey his opinion and feelings towards these translated works of literature.

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.

John Keats was a famous British author in the nineteenth century. He was born in London, England in 1795. His mom died early in his life from tuberculosis and his father died from fatal injuries after falling off a horse. This led him and his younger brothers to be placed under the care of Richard Abbey. At age fifteen Keats was an apprenticed to an apothecary. He wanted to write and not go into to medical but Abbey would not let him. Keats secretly wrote on the side and used some inheritance to fund his writing behind Abbey’s back. In 1816 Keats met Leigh Hunt and decided to pursue being a poet. Hunt actually published Keats first poem and helped him jumpstart his career. His first major poem was “Endymion: A Poetic Romance” . Soon after Endymion was published, Keats started show early symptoms

Nature is used throughout the poem through the seasons of spring, summer, autumn and fall, which symbolize emotions of humans and give an insight in the interest in the common man. Each individual season is very different from each other and represents a distinct human emotion or stage of life. The characteristic awe of nature is used by Keats to make a connection between human emotions and nature. There is also an interest in the common man in which the reader learns about the changing emotions of man when the seasons change. Keat’s describes the human season’s saying, “There are four seasons in the mind of man” (l.2). When Keat’s uses the words “...in the mind of man” (l.2) the reader will understand that the author is

The world has several great poets and many mind-blowing works, each with its own way of portraying its own message and some the same ones. Jane Flanders wrote the poem named “Cloud Painter” she shows the world from an artistic way, using a painter and his canvas to help the reader picture the true meaning behind the words and images created. Robert Frost takes on the same idea but uses a less complex example so that it makes his work easy to understand while not revealing the real meaning of the poem. Frost and Flanders are just two of the many poets that use nature as a way of explaining the very lessons in life. Each poet has a different way of presenting similar images but from a different perspective.

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

Rather than instructing interaction with physical nature, Keats breathes nature into his poetry. For example, William Wordsworth’s “The Tables Turned” encourages one to leave the classroom and take a romp in fertile woodlands:

John Keats was a well established English poet in the early 19th century. His work is greatly influenced by his family, studies, political views, and life experiences. Keats was born October 31st, 1795 in a stable to his devoted parents, Thomas and Frances Keats (15). Before Keats’s twentieth birthday he would experience many hardships from the passing of both of his parents as well as his grandmother. Thomas Keats died in 1804 after an accident occurred while riding his horse, leaving John Keats as the ‘man’ of the house at the young age of nine. Less than five years passed before Frances Keats fell ill and passed after contracting tuberculosis. At a young age Keats experienced great loss and suffering that would linger with him for the entirety

The works written by Keats illustrate his way of thinking through massive imagery and sweet beauty. Keats didn’t receive a grand amount of formal learning, in fact he learned very little that way. After focusing on his aspiring career as a surgeon, he put poetry aside, however, he found himself losing his touch in surgery, therefore, he moved back to his beloved poetry.

The author presents a metaphorical image of an autumn harvest in the first quatrain that reveals the speaker’s ability to find freedom in accepting his own limitations. In the proceeding quotation, Keats

A brilliant American poet, Henry David Thoreau, once claimed, “This world is but a canvas to our imagination”. This idea that everything can be interpreted differently using creativity is evident in many of John Keats’ poems. However, how does “Ode on a Grecian Urn” reveal the beauty of art? Keats uses different images of melodies, love, and happiness to show that the idea of true beauty of art is within the eye of the beholder.

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

People often observe nature and are mesmerized by it, but they fail to appreciate and enjoy its beauty to the fullest. This makes the readers ponder over whether they are actually enjoying and looking at nature in the real sense. “For oft when on my couch I lie, In vacant or in pensive mood... And then my heart with pleasure fills, And dances with the daffodils” (19-20, 23-24). The ending of the poem brings a major learning and realisation to the readers. By reading these lines, the readers realise that it is only nature that can fill their hearts with permanent pleasure and can make them joyous even in the sad moments of

John Keats was a poet in the 1800’s who was way ahead of his time. Keats left his indelible mark on literature. Even though Keats lived a hard, short life, it never stopped him from writing good literature. “He had no advantages of birth, wealth or education; he lost his parents in childhood, watched one brother die of tuberculosis and the other emigrate to America. Poverty kept him from marrying the woman he loved. And he achieved lasting fame only after his early death in 1821. Yet grief and hardship never destroyed his passionate commitment to poetry”(Hanson) Keats writing was different then other poets of his time, his meaning and messages were way ahead of his