The Beauty And Richness Of Autumn By John Keats

Robert Frost accurately captures the conflicted nature of human beings using nature imagery with underlying meanings. In “Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening,” Frost depicts a peaceful landscape in order to explain the pull humans experience to both fulfill worldly responsibilities and also follow their own wishes, while in “Neither Out Far nor In Deep” Frost describes human fascination with the the sea, but also notes that humans belong on land, and are unable to truly understand the aspects they admire in the water. In these poems, aspects of the natural world represent human desires that are inherent, while influences due to society symbolize the limitations of humans. In this way, Frost also compares the tension humans feel when caught between civilization and wilderness to the strain caused by the mix of hopelessness and yearning.

No matter what happens in one’s life, the sun still comes up every day and the stars still shine brightly each night. In “Bright Star” by John Keats and “Choose Something Like a Star” by Robert Frost, both authors compare elements of nature, such as stars, to the things in one’s life. Through soft diction, peaceful imagery, and figurative language such as similes, Keats seeks to convey that people should cherish even the little things in life. In “Chose Something Like a Star,” Frost includes dark imagery, brutal diction, and personification to prove that like the stars, some things remain constant in one’s life.

In “The Human Seasons” by John Keats, the author utilizes a lively tone and an accepting tone to reveal that one is less likely to strive to accomplish their goals in life if they do not believe that they will achieve them. Many people accept the way their life is and are unhappy, but they do not attempt to change their lives because they lack the hope needed to be open to all possibilities in life. Instead of accepting one’s situation when it may not be what they wanted, one must remain hopeful and work towards achieving their goals. In the first eight lines of the poem, the author utilizes a lively tone and states, “He hath his lusty spring when fancy clear / Takes in all beauty with an easy span: /

Many works of Romantics have nature embedded in them in order to embrace the wonders of Mother Nature as a result, in Nature, Emerson shows the reader that nature’s beauty is within the observer. “If the stars should appear one night in a thousand years, how would men believe and adore; and preserve for many generations the remembrance of the city of God..But every night come out these envoys of beauty, and light the universe with admonishing smile.” Emerson explains how people take nature’s beauty for granted by not paying close enough attention to

In his poem “The Eve of St. Agnes”, John Keats writes of a tragic romantic tale of “two star-crossed lovers” sharing many similarities with William Shakespeare’s “Romeo and Juliet.” The poem follows a young man named Porphyro who love Madeline, a daughter of the king of a feuding family. During the evening of St. Agnes: a day that virginity is celebrated, Porphyro sneaks into Madeline’s room with some help and takes advantage of her while she was in a dream-like trance. Porphyro then convinces Madeline to run off with him into the winter storm that was brewing outside and they are never seen again. Keats presents his poem in a unique way that allows the audience to have multiple ways to interpret the actions and intents of the characters.

The second verse describes the labor of autumn as the harvests are processed and the end of the long cycle of the season is prepared. Autumn is a season of storing of grain, the pressing of apples to cider and preparations that come with caring for the harvested food that must be tended to in order to prepare for the long sleep of winter. Autumn is given human characteristics as it begins its long journey towards the end of its day with all of the applications of labor overseen by the person that represents the season. We can see this In the last phrase, Keats states “And sometimes like a gleaner thou dost keep Steady thy laden head across the brook Or by a cider press, with patient look, Thou watchest the last oozings hours by hours” (Nemoianu 205).

Robert Frost said many times throughout his life that all men share a common bond. In his poem “The Tuft of Flowers” he analyzes the potential of such a bond, in first person. Frost turns an everyday common job, into discovering a common bond with another laborer. The author uses a comparison between aloneness with a sense of understanding to demonstrate his theme of unity between two men. In another one of Frost’s poems “Birches” he imagines walking through the woods looking at all the trees, and seeing the top bending towards the ground. When he sees this he imagines they are bending from kids swinging on them, rather then what is really happening to them. It can be analyzed that Frost had a very definitive appreciation for nature, and a very broad imagination.

First , we see In theses poems, the act of creation is pictured as a kind of self-harvesting; the pen harvests the fields of the brain, and books are filled with the resulting "grain" . In "To Autumn", the metaphor is developed further, the sense of coming loss that permeates the poem confronts the sorrow underlying the season's creativity. When Autumn's harvest is over, the fields will be bare, the swaths wit their "twined flowers" cut

Poets’ representations of visual arts often feature themes of love and romance. Many poets have the root of romance in their nature; therefore, to praise and to admire the beauty of love and intimacy become important components in many poems. At the beginning of Keats’ poem, he shows his reader a vivid scene of love about “pursuit” and “escape” between men and women (9); in addition, a suggestion of intimacy about “marble men and maidens overwrought” is another example of how the speaker acknowledged the theme of love on the urn (42). Compare to Keats’ poem, Lee’s poem contains stronger erotic scene of intimacy between the speaker and his lover Donna in the yard. Interestingly, using the speech of his father, the speaker emphasizes the similes between holding a persimmon and caressing his lover: sniffing the “scent”, sensing the “texture”, and feeling the “weight” (86-88). Thus, the frequent association between images in visual arts and poets’ representation of love is another charming feature of literature.

imagination of the male, where she may perfectly exist displaying that she is property of the male. She does not have her own existence. She only exists within the imagination of the male. For example, in, Lamia, by John Keats, the speaker, with his imagination, builds a temple for the Goddess Psyche to reside. Within the mind of the speaker, she is in perfect form. She is imperfect outside of his mind, lacking voice, lute, pipe and incense sweet, but within his mind she will have all of these. In the mind of the speaker, she is his possession. By transferring the female to Nature, the narrator has the ability to control her with the use of the imagination. An example of this control from The Prelude is as follows,

The speaker shows the reader the hope and beauty in the world, “There lives the dearest freshness deep down things;” (9). The speaker is able to show a part of the world that is untouched by humans. Imagery is used to get the reader to imagine the smell of the fresh spring, and cool feeling from underground springs. The beauty of this scene sparks hope for the undoing of mankind on nature. It symbolizes the beauty the world once had, and shows the possibility of it returning to its glory. The speaker also shows the hope of the next day, “And though the last lights off the black West went / Oh, morning, at the brown brink eastward, springs--” (10-11). The West referring to a sunset is a metaphor for the ending of a day. It is normal when people look back on what they have done that day, but it is also a symbol of hope for the next day. The speaker believes that a new day is a new chance to be better than yesterday. The morning is also a metaphor for the clarity and hope human’s need to help the world return to its untainted beauty. The speaker sees hope in man to fix the harm that them have

William Butler Yeats is considered to be one of the notable poets of Irish literature and had a major role in Irish politics. One can notice the slow shift from the English style of romanticism to serious political messages in his poems. A lot of his early works had a lot of motifs and imagery of nature. I want to examine two of these poems, Down by the Sally Gardens and The Lake Isle of Innisfree, the way these poems are designed are somewhat similar, but may have contrasting meanings and may have different contexts.

Poets are artists who earn their living through words, and their imagination. It is their own craft, as much as woodcarving is a carpenter's craft. We always take it for granted that artists who make their living with their own craft do it because they like doing what they’re doing; but it is not the only reason one might choose to exercise their own craft. In the three poems, we each see contrasting perspectives on their relationship with the same craft as shown in the poems primarily through tone and imagery.

In the second stanza, the poet directly addresses autumn. To Keats, autumn is a figure that can be found in the middle of its job, which is to facilitate nature’s growth. Autumn can be discovered sitting in a granary, or storehouse for threshed grain, the blowing wind lifting autumn’s hair. Someone might also stumble across autumn asleep outside on a half-harvested trench, made drowsy by the scent of poppies. Autumn’s scythe is unused against the next line of flowers. The poet additionally compares autumn to a “gleaner” who carries the leftovers of the harvest on top of her head while she crosses a stream. Another activity of autumn is to watch the juice being squeezed from apples for hours.

Many famous writers have careers spanning over decades, though one English Romantic poet was able to achieve fame in his short career of only five years. John Keats was a poet with a remarkable ability to perceive the world around him; an ability that resonated throughout his works. Although John Keats lived an unfortunately short life, he is considered one of the most important figures of the English Romantic movement because of his use of Romantic literary devices and themes of love and loss in poems such as "La Belle Dame sans Merci" and "When I Have Fears that I May Cease to Be."