Research Paper On John Keats

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.

Keats’ father Benjamin worked as a waiter at a coffee shop in Greenwich Village and was therefore all too familiar with the struggle to make a better life for you and your family. Although he had a great appreciation for Keats’ work, he discouraged him from making it a career for fear that his son would not be able to support himself. On one occasion he went so far ¬¬ to purchase tubes of oil paint and then gave them to Keats under the false pretense that a starving artist had traded them for a bowl of soup. Fortunately for future readers of his works, Jack was not deterred from his passion for art. When Keats graduated from high school he was awarded the senior class medal for excellence in art. In a cruel twist of fate, his father Benjamin died of a heart attack the day before he was set to receive the award. Although his father never saw Jack receive the award, he learned of his support when asked to identify his father’s body. As he checked his father’s wallet after his death he found several preserved article clippings of all of his achievements. His father was proud of Keats and his work and remained a supporter until his last breath.

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.

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

Readers of Keats’s story begin to realize that the fear of a young death is a demon that haunts us all. This was Keats’s goal as a romantic writer: to connect with the reader, to portray his ideas in the form of art, and to make the reader see from his point of view. With his use of colorful figurative language, such as repetition, imagery, and personification, Keats accomplishes his goal. The reason that Keats is so successful in painting a clear picture is because he “uses his imagination to write” (King). By writing his poem in the form of a “Shakespearean sonnet consisting of three quatrains” (King), Keats, like any great artist, clearly states the point he is trying to make. Apprehension of a young demise is a plague that haunts us all. In “When I Have Fears That I May Cease to be,” Keats takes our hands and reassures us that we are not

Keats draws the reader into his fantasy settings and dreamlike state of desire. Keats was obsessed with blurring the boundaries of dreams versus reality and the consequences of those boundaries. This is seen more in this poem than any of his other works. It is not known why he had this obsession, but maybe the dream world allowed him to forget everyone he lost due to illness, or maybe prevented him from thinking about his own illness and future demise. While writing this poem, Keats knew he was ill, because of his previous medical experience, and because he lost his mother and brother to tuberculosis, so he knew the symptoms.

John Keats, the youngest of his peers, Percy Shelley and George Byron, was born October 31, 1795, the oldest of five children. John’s father died from being thrown from a horse when John was only nine. His mother quickly remarried and moved away from the children for four years. His grandfather died a year later, leaving a sizable estate, although badly managed. As a result, John struggled with money issues all his life. He also struggled with illness.

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”.

​Torn between two worlds, Keats battled his own personal life between his engagement to Fanny Browne and the death of his brother. Also the poem was written approximately two years before he died. These life changing events resulted in Keats writing one of his most famous poems, Ode to a Nightingale. This poem is an escape from reality in trying to find a happy place such as the singing of the Nightingale (Fiero 9). The poem is a parallel to Keats thoughts and desires, which are directly connected to his reasoning for writing the poem, its connections to understanding nature as well as its reflection of the human consciousness and natural environment.

Keats composed the best of his poetry during the hardships of his sickness and his love for Brawne. It was considered an astonishing piece of work because of the technical parts of the piece, developing slowly into a molded ball of a perfect blend in all intellectual and emotional parts.

Although John Keats didn’t live a very long life, he still left a pretty good size mark on literature. This thought only intrigues many writers and readers to wonder what he could have possibly accomplished had he not died at such a young age and been able to continue writing. He was born into the working class and very early in his life developed a reputation for fighting, and it was not until he met one of his close friends that he became interested in poetry. The other two writers in this section, Byron and Shelley, were both aristocrats. Clearly Keats was not and Aristocrat considering he was born into the working class. Even though Keats didn’t live a very long life he still encountered many ups and downs in his early years that led him to write some of the poems that he did. The four poems that we read from John Keats collection would be 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. One message from each of those poems would be ambition, death, mortality, and fame.

John Keats is not only one of the greatest poets in English literature, but he is also one of its few heroes. Despite being relatively unknown during his life, Keats became the defining symbol of the late Romantic time period in which he lived Even after his premature death at the young age of twenty-five, Keats's poetry was scrutinized. If not for several profound occurrences in John Keats’s lifetime, and without the friendships that he made, he never would have been able to address the political issues at the time or find a way to release his feelings of heartbreak

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

John Keats was born on Halloween in the year 1795 in London. He was one of five siblings with four sisters and one brother. Keats’s mother and father were stable keepers and they lived good and balanced lives. Keats started his education at a boys' school in Enfield run by a man named John Clarke. Keats had multiple cases where he would get in a fight with other kids. One classmate stated that Keats "would become great - but rather in some military capacity than in literature.” In April 1804 Keats' father Thomas was thrown from his horse and got a brain injury, he died a few days later and was found where he had been thrown to the ground. The next year, she took her four children to her mother’s house and left them in her care, abandoning the family for three and a half years. These were horrible things to live through and no doubt had a major impact on Keats and his writing. When Keats finally found his mother she was suffering from tuberculosis and although Keats tried to care for her, she died soon after. Now Keats and his siblings were left under the care of their grandmother once again and she gave a known

Many messages are displayed in the literature of John Keats. Mostly throughout his stories he talks about himself and his feelings. And he really represents himself throughout his poems. One message can be found in each of the Keats poems, “On First Looking Into Chapman’s Homer”, “When I have Fears that I May Cease to Be “, “Ode to a nightingale”, and of course “Ode On a Grecian Urn”. Romance, forgotten fame, importance of knowledge, acceptance of death.