My Star Predominant : Portrait Of John Keats

In this piece of art Van Gogh shows that even tho in a dark night you can still look out your window at night and see light. Another example of that would be in your dark or hard times in life, there is always a brighter side to everything.

The Romantic Period of prose of poetry created a form that promoted the focus on the supernatural, the natural world, and newfound interest in what was once overlooked. Born in different times and with distinct circumstances, both John Keats and Christina Rossetti took to poetry to convey their own ideas, shaped by this revolutionary time. Keats faced the brevity of life much more severely and took on a more grandiose, dramatic form of romantic poetry when compared to Christina Rossetti. However, both had a similar tone in observing the natural world and conveying the emotion that compelled from within. The impact of the Romantic Movement can be felt as one reads through both John Keats and Christina Rossetti. While differences may exist, and their portrayal is a unique experience of one’s own, elements of the great Romantic time permeates through both of these marvelous poets.

A review of Joseph Boyden by Duffy Roberts, a Canadian scholar who graduated from University of British Columbia with a M.A. in English. Roberts spent a year teaching at Colorado State University and a one-term faculty teaching position at Camosun College's Interurban campus in Victoria. Roberts now teaches at University of British Columbia where he was offered a position in 2007. Roberts describes Boyden's work where it contains a unique, nuanced tone when writing of loss, celebration, nostalgia, and irony. A contrast and comparison is shown where Roberts mentions authors such as Saleema Nawaz, Lisa Moore, and Neil Smith. This shows that this source is objective where Roberts is stating his opinion on Boyden's work in relevance to others. Through the ideas shown By Roberts, knowledge has been obtained with a deeper grasp on critical analysis

"Bright Star" by John Keats and "Choose Something Like a Star" by Robert Frost both present to the reader a desire to be like the "steadfast" star. Both poets gaze for this same quality in the stars, but thematically and stylistically each poem has its similarities and differences.

John Keats was born October 31, 1795 in Central London. His parents were middle class but didn’t have the funds to send him to a higher public school. So Keats went to John Clarke’s school located Enfield.

John Keats, in his Romantic poem, “Bright star, would I were stedfast as thou art” (1819), reveals that the ability to feel the rush of love, while still experiencing the steadfastness of a star, would make for an ideal life. He develops this theme by first using an apostrophe, addressing the star directly to praise its permanence; by second, employing negative connotation in the second line with “not” to emphasize all the qualities of the star that the speaker does not wish to possess; by third, personifying the star with the phrase “watching, with eternal lids apart” to give the star human qualities, therefore making it easier for the speaker to relate to the star, yet still not desiring this; by fourth, utilizing the allusion to an “Eremite,”

Beauty is truth, truth beauty discusses Keats’s exploration of the themes of beauty, truth and imagination in two or more of his works. Prior to the Romantic Movement, the prevalent notions in European culture was that the understanding of the universe could be comprehended with the application of rationality and logic. The belief that reason and logic could and should determine all aspects of life arguably underwent a shift of consciousness and was subordinated against the ideas of the Romantic Movement. In place of logic and reason, the Romantics placed a considerable amount of emphasis on emotions, beauty, individuality and in particularly the imagination. An integral part of this change meant that the way in which one perceived nature, beauty and imagination had to veer into a different direction.

The quotes presented in class from John Keats, Albert Camus, and F. Scott Fitzgerald consider contrasting paradigms. The paradigms represent avenues of thought concerning existence and problem solving in particular. One thought pattern is full of logic and order. Everything can be explained and has its place in a sequential order. Things are right or wrong; there are no gray areas. This leaves no room for anything of fancy or mystery. Then on the opposite end of the spectrum, imagination and creativity blur solid lines of logic. Feelings are not dismissed as ludicrous notions, and tie directly into any problem occurring without a reasonable explanation. Art and expression are appreciated over fact and evidence.

intellectual and imaginative climate,” perhaps a “spirit of an age”,” (Greenblatt, 8th ed. 6). As this quote displays, the Romantic period of literature held a closely associated atmosphere with the time. Four ideas, impulse of feeling, glorification of the ordinary, the supernatural, and individualism or alienation all serve as readily available examples of themes which display the atmosphere discussed by this quote. Out of all of these themes, glorification of the ordinary serves as the main focus of Keats’s poem “Why Did I Laugh Tonight? No Voice Will Tell”.

Drawing parallels between literature and kingdoms, the speaker establishes his sizeable amount of travel. The “realms of gold,” “goodly states and kingdoms,” and “western islands” are all places the speaker has already visited, or in truth, literature. Keats is describing the richness of literature and how the speaker has already read numerous books and poems. The speaker flaunts his knowledge, making him an adult, or an experienced person in literature. However, it only sets it up to make the reveal of

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.

In his ode “To Autumn,” John Keats praises fall as the yielder of abundance and fruitfulness. Throughout the poem, Keats uses strong imagery to create a beautiful picture of fall. For example, in stanza twenty-five, Keats writes “…barred clouds bloom the soft-dying day, and touch the stubble plains with rosy hue…” (Keats 738). Through these words, Keats uses the word “bloom,” an action associated with flowers, to describe a fall sunset. This effect makes the readers imagine a sky breaking forth lively in full bright, rosy colors like flowers. Through this description, the author leads his readers to admire in awe one of the beauties of fall. Also, Keats describes the activities of autumn through unique personification. As an illustration, Keats describes fall as “conspiring with [the sun] how to load and bless with fruit the vines that round the that-eaves run;” as “sitting careless on a granary floor”, and as “[by a cider-press, with patient look, [watching] the last oozing hours by hours” (Keats 738). Through these words, Keats shows the productive and fruitful activities completed in the harvest autumn season.

Despite the fact that Keats was such a great writer, he didn’t get recognized for being the profoundly brilliant writer he was until after his death from tuberculosis at the tender age of 26. Of his many writings, I appreciate his eloquent expression in his letters as well as his poetry. In a letter to his sweetheart to Fanny Brawne, dated March 1820; Keats wrote:

Of all the great poets of the early nineteenth century, John Keats (1795-1821) was the last to be born and first to die. Born in London, England, on October 31, 1795, to a poor stable keeper, John Keats devoted his short life to the perfection of poetry marked by intense imagery, great sensuous appeal and an attempt to express a philosophy through classical legend. Although he was brought up amid surroundings and influences by no means calculated to awaken poetic genius. Rendered an orphan at the tender age of eight, his father’s death had a deep rooted effect on the young boy’s life. In a more metaphysical sense, it shaped his understanding of the human condition, both its suffering and its loss. This tragedy and others helped Keats’ later

In Phaedo, Socrates tells of the form Beauty existing as itself by itself along with a Good and a Great (Phaedo, 100b). He explains that is something is described as beautiful, it is only described as so because something beautiful shares the same meaning as the Beautiful (Phaedo, 100c). He also tells, “But I simply, naively, and perhaps foolishly cling to this, that nothing else makes it beautiful other than the presence of, or the sharing in, or however you may describe its relationship to that Beautiful we mentioned, for I will not insist on the precise nature of the relationship, but that all beautiful things are beautiful by the Beautiful” (Phaedo, 100d). In telling this, Socrates is saying that the beautiful does not exist by itself, but instead, it itself is Beauty. In order to make sense of Socrates’s definition of Beauty, I think that one must understand the difference between the beautiful and the Beautiful. The beautiful coincides with the visible because the idea of beauty is subjective to the human viewing the beautiful object. The Beautiful corresponds with the the invisible because it is objective and perfect, and Beauty is a concept that never changes.