Keats Poems : Homer, Fears, Nightingale, And Urn '

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’s poem begins with “when I have fears that I may cease to be”, bluntly asking what would happened if he died today. He asks himself

Michael O’Neil claims that Keats greatest poetry thrives on its knowledge of contrast, its feeling for light and shade. The contrast that these two poems provide for each other allow the reader to appreciate their similarities, and likewise analyze their differences. The greatest contrast between the two is in the type of beauty they describe. In Ode to a Nightingale, the beauty is in the birds song, which lasts eternally beyond the lifetime of the bird. Thus depicting the eternal glory of nature, and the persistence of creation. The latter poem is displaying the beauty of the urn, a figure in a permanent reality–unchanging and existing beyond

First of all, fears by John Keats I believe, is one of the last poems he ever wrote. He wrote about all his fears, that he would never get to travel to all the places he wanted to go, he also feared that he would never be able

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

Truth remains a mysterious essential: sought out, created, and destroyed in countless metaphysical arguments through time. Whether argued as being absolute or relative, universal or personal, no thought is perceived or conceived without an assessment of its truth. In John Keats' "Ode on a Grecian Urn" and E.E. Cummings' "since feeling is first" the concern is not specifically the truth of a thought, but rather, the general nature of truth; the foundation which gives truth is trueness . Both poets replace investigation with decision, and that which would be argumentation in the hands of philosophers becomes example and sentiment in their poems. Each poet's

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.

FEARS OF DYING IN JOHN KEATS’“WHEN I HAVE FEARS THAT I MAYCEASE TO BE” Melissa Was English 2401:Poetry 4/5/17

John Keats was a famous romantic poet whose work was characterized mainly by his use of diction, tone, and other literary devices to create sensual imagery in his works of poetry. Throughout the Elizabethan sonnet, When I have Fears that I May Cease to Be, one can see that Keats reflected his thoughts on life and death personal real life circumstances; ones he was facing during the time he wrote the poem. By using a combination of various literary techniques, he leaves the reader with a powerful impression of his own emotions. The main emotion he expresses throughout his sonnet is his fear of death and of not having enough time to live his life. Through the poem, Keats hopes to

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

Upon reading “Ode on a Grecian Urn” by John Keats, one may notice his references to the religions and customs of ancient Greek culture, and be able to contrast these observations to those he has made about other religions. The speaker studies the urn, and sees drawings of people partaking in activities and even dealing with personal struggles. An academic journal titled, “Just Beauty: Ovid and the Argument of Keats’s “‘Ode on a Grecian Urn”’ gives more information in regard to Keats’s observations. Arnd Bohm, the author of this article, tells of religious processes mentioned by Keats in both “Ode on a Grecian Urn” and one of his earlier works titled “Written in Disgust of Vulgar Superstition.” In these works, Keats references two different religions and different customs being practiced. In “Ode on a Grecian Urn,” ideas of beauty and love are also referenced heavily. According to the speaker’s observations, the Grecian urn seems to be not only beautiful and lyrical, but also has timelessness on its side; while such qualities are not mentioned about other religions and customs.

The Romantic era produced many literary figures. Within this era, people were going against the conversion of agriculture to industrial. The change in lifestyle was so drastic that people began to rebel through literature. John Keats is one of the poets in that era. He writes poetry that is focused around nature. He was one of the many that missed the simplicity of agriculture and found beauty in nature rather than industrial cities. Even though this single topic appears in all of his poems, it is written in a different tone that allows each poem to be seen as on its own. Keats’ passion flows through each line in a different way. Within the contrast and comparison of the following four poems, one can see how Keats’ emotions illustrate the topic of nature differently.

Both the poets believe that it is only art which can give solace and contentment in life. The impermanence of all the earthly and living things has been contrasted with the permanence which art bestows on them. According to Keats, the work of art is more vivid than the actual life as it has its own life; Keats touches on this in the third stanza of the poem. Like Yeats, Keats in “Ode on a Grecian Urn” also talks about imagination and music:

In the context of John Keats’ “Ode to a Nightingale,” “The Wild Swans at Coole” by William Butler Yeats raises compelling dialogue with Keats’ piece, which suggests that Yeats, to some degree, draws inspiration from John Keats, in that his pose concerning the nightingale becomes a basis and “touchstone” for “The Wild Swans at Coole.” Aside from commonalities concerning avians, both poems share elements of Romanticism, melancholy, feelings of weariness, and other key ideas, images, and plots as “Ode to a Nightingale” and thus, “The Wild Swans at Coole” strengthens Keats’ initial ideas in a harmonic and resonant fashion using its own unique methods. As a response to Keatsian Romanticism, Yeats revises the ideas surrounding transcendence of

Employing the poetic style of ekphrasis, John Keats uses his poem “Ode to a Grecian Urn” to study a separate work of art. Keats narrates the poem from the perspective of one carefully studying a vase while pondering the depictions of nature, love, and religious rites on its surface. His observations lead to to remark on the everlasting nature of emotions evoked by the urn, as well as the beauty of the images it induces in one who would observe it. These musings throughout the poem offer a strong indication of Romantic view which Keats held. Romanticism placed a heavy emphasis on the importance of emotion as a source of true art and the value of imagination. Keats’ description in “Ode