John Keats Homer, Fears, Nightingale, And Urn

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.

The first part of the poem explains Keats’ ignorance before reading, as well as the greek gods revealing elements of sky, sea, and land to Homer and then Keats. The first few lines express how Keats was ignorant because of him not understanding Homer’s writing. Later he explains how he has heard of Homer, and how Homer wants to see, “dolphin-coral in deep seas.” The importance of mentioning coral here is that coral is known for its bright colors and funky shapes, something one can only witness with their eyes, which Homer wishes he was able to. Then, Keats blatantly mentions how Homer is blind, but then says, “the

I picked this poem because it was it was the most moving one I read. Keats was diagnosed with tuberculosis at a young age. His family members died from the same lung condition, so he knew his fate. A few nights before Keats died at 26, he wrote When I Have Fears. This poems talks about his worry of not living a fulfilled life because he we going to die so young. “Before my pen has glean'd my teeming brain,” (Line 2 Cease.) Keats was sad that he was not going to finish all the writing he wished to do in his lifetime. Not only that, Keats was newly engaged to the love of his life. Quickly after the engagement, Keats discovered he was sick. This poem captures his sorrow of not living a long and happy life with his fiance. This poem became my favorite, because of all of the meaning it stood for in Keats life and how incredibly moving it

Because these people are afraid of dying, they stop themselves form living their lives to the fullest. In some cases, people lives are cut short due to an illness or some other tragedy. Just as Keats foreshadows in his poem, his time on earth was cut short. Unfortunately, Keats contracted tuberculosis, which led to his death in 1821. Keats was only 25 years of age at the time of his death and as a result, he did not get to write all that he wanted to. If Keats had not had not allowed his fear of death to limit himself in his writing, he probably would have brought joy to the world with his

John Keats did not live a long life, only surviving from 1795 – 1821, his original goal in life involved working in the medical field (Motion 76). After some exposure to literature, he soon abandoned his medical passions and shifted his focus onto writing poetry (Motion 328). In fact, he became an apprentice for an apothecary-surgeon in 1811, passed all of his medical exams in 1816 and decided one day that the medical field was just not for him (Motion 47-48). Keats new goal involved surpassing his predecessors in poetry. His true

An English Romantic poet by the name of John Keats was known as one of the best romantic poets of the 18th century for his excellent perspective on nature. As well as the relationship between man and nature. He allows readers to truly visualize nature in their mind when they read his work. John Keats’s poem, On first looking into Chapman 's Homer was written in 1816. The sonnet tells the reader about how Keats compares his experiences to reading about Homer’s novel dealing with Odysseus’s experience of adventures around the world. Keats gives the reader a sense of how going to so many places does not mean that you have truly seen the world as a whole. You have a take a step back and look at the bigger picture to embrace and understand there is so much more beyond what you have already seen. There are parts of the world that you have not explore fully or discover.

These poems are included because they had a strong feeling of mortality in them and summarize the concept of what Keats believed it to be. They were not the only two other topic that dealt with mortality but seemed to have a strong presence of it in them.

John Keats was a romantic poet in the early 1800s. He lived from 1975 to 1821, a rather short lived life and died at the young age of just twenty-five. Although Keats died at a young age, the years that he lived he created a huge impact on society with his poems. Keats developed an interest in poetry and reading at a young age, setting him up to become an avid poet. 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.

Secondly, it is important to foresee the subject matter of each poem. ‘Chapman’s Homer’ is written and expressed to show Keats’ excitement and a sense of awe on a first discovering George Chapman’s seventeenth

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

Keats was so moved by the power and aliveness of Chapman's translation of Homer that he wrote this sonnet--after spending all night reading Homer with a friend. The poem expresses the intensity of Keats's experience; it also reveals how passionately he cared about poetry. To communicate how profoundly the revelation of Homer's genius affected him, Keats uses imagery of exploration and discovery. In a sense, the reading experience itself becomes a Homeric voyage, both for the poet and the reader.

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.

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

Personally, I would have to strongly disagree with this statement as I find his poems interesting and comprehensible. Right from the onset, Yeats became one of my favourite poets as I admire his unique style and impressive language skills. I believe that his poems are a reflection of his own life... An interesting and influential one that faced rejection from Maude Gonne, creating the Abbey theatre in Dublin and winning the Nobel Prize for literature in 1923. I feel that he captures a calm atmosphere in his nature poems using onomatopoeia and with a unique style which draws me in as a reader. Yeats also portrays a powerful message in his political poems and conveys his thoughts and emotions when he utilises clever similes coupled with alliteration or assonance. The poems that I have studied are "The Lake Isle of Innisfree", The Wild Swans at Coole", "An Irish Airman Foresees His Death", "September 1913" and "Sailing to Byzantium"

Through these various resources critics seemed to glean a good understanding of how Keats used imagination in various ways. The first defines imagination as “its capacity to discover, prefigure, or create an unseen truth or reality” (ix).