What Is The Theme Of The Early Yeats To Musem

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.

Yeats was a confessional poet - that is to say, that he wrote his poetry directly from his own experiences. He was an idealist, with a purpose. This was to create Art for his own people - the Irish. But in so doing, he experienced considerable frustration and disillusionment. The tension between this ideal, and the reality is the basis of much of his writing. One central theme of his earlier poetry is the contrast

Yeats’s ambiguous attitude to the English literary tradition is similar to his position on his past. At first glance, poems in The Green Helmet and Other Poems seem more candid and more personal than Yeats’s earlier poems, in that many poems are both his confessions and declaration. Many poems in the collection feature a speaker who disapprovingly looks back at his old time in introspection. For instance, in the poem “The Coming of Wisdom with Time,” the speaker refers to his old time as “the lying days of my youth” (Norton, 38). A similar sentiment can be found in the poem “All things can Tempt Me,” in which the speaker laments that “a woman’s face”—love, and “the seeming needs of my fool-driven land”—nationalism, have once tempted him away from the “craft of verse” (Norton, 40). In the poem “Reconciliation,” too, the speaker recalls that “you” (presumably Maud Gonne) took away the verses that could move many readers. Being deaf and blind, the speaker “could find / nothing to make a song about but kings, / Helmets, and swords, and half-forgotten things / that were like memories of you” (Norton, 37). In these three poems, the speaker is incapacitated by his love for a woman, for his country, or both. As the speaker of “The Fascination of What’s

Afterwards, this essay must analyze the poem in terms of form. 8 stanzas, all quatrains, except stanza two and eight, which are quintets, compose it. Probably this distinction on extent is parallel to the relevance of those stanzas within the composition. As we can notice in stanza number 2, the old woman realizes her recent loss and it is the first emotion shown in the poem. On the other hand, the last stanza is more clearly shown why it uses 5 lines instead of 4, and it also has relation with the significance in the

Five months before his first book, “Poems”, was published, Keats was introduced to one of Byron and Shelley’s friends, Hunt, who helped him advance in his writing. His first book was not received to well by the public, neither was the rest of his work. In his lifetime, Keats’ work copped more hate than any other poet of his time. But by the end of the 19th century he was one of the most beloved poets studied. Actually Meg, on his gravestone Keats wanted to write “Here lies one whose name was writ in water.” He knew he wasn’t appreciated in his time, and he would be washed away by those who read his name, yet he prophesised he would be appreciated in the years that followed.

“English Romantic lyric poet John Keats was dedicated to the perfection of poetry marked by vivid imagery that expressed a philosophy through classical legend” (Jones). John Keats’ poems were written with specific messages that could be obtained from what his main topic was. Something that Keats grew passionate about was the idea that he could travel through reading books rather than going from place to place. Keats wanted to travel to learn, but as he lived his life he slowly realized that he did not have a lot of time left in order to experience his life. Keats wanted to live his life to the fullest while he had the chance, and although he only lived to the age of 25 he did exactly that. In each of the poems he constructed, a specific message can be learned from each.

Thus while the prospect of immortality appeals to Keats, he postulates that an endless life would only be worth the effort should he, “hear her tender-taken breath” (Keats 13). Beyond the romantic idealization Keats provides which imagines himself as a celestial body, “Bright Star” reveals the poet shares the philosophical notion that life is meaningless unless in the presence of or in the act of something one loves. Should his lover perish, or perhaps should Keats writing fail, the poet suggests that his life would therefore become null and he will seek the void. Conscious of such writings, and painfully aware of Keats ultimate fate, Oscar Wilde enters further dialogue with his predecessor in his homage to Keats.

A discussion is made on the development of poetic voice and subject in his writing. A broad development of Yeats poetic form, style and technique will discuss in two periods and the influence of these two periods on his themes, context and subject. These points will discuss with the help of some selected poems from his poetry. After providing an analysis, I will draw appropriate conclusion.

Yeats is bitter at his lover’s fainting beauty. Thomas tell about the aging life of his father; “Old age should burn and rave at the close of day” and “Rage, rage against the dying of the light.” He remembered his father’s will to live every day to the fullest, that the “close of day” is not an end, but the expectation of living for living the next day. Thomas seems grateful for his father’s fight to live for every moment of the

John Keats, author of many poems from the British Romantic Period, was best known for his five “great odes,” the most famous of which was “Ode to a Nightingale” (“Ode – Summary”). Literary critic Douglas Bush once said that if John Keats had not died at the young age of twenty-five, he would be more well-known than William Shakespeare and John Milton (“John Keats” 559). John Keats was a young poet whose poems mostly revolved around the mortal and immortal aspects of life. Keats had a lot of influences in his life that led him to write “Ode to a Nightingale.”

Yeats’ elegy, details a metaphoric spiritual journey of renewal to “the holy city” seeking intellectual refuge within an “artifice of eternity” (Yeats, Lines 16,24). His use of figurative language elicits both the somber and nostalgic tones evident throughout the poem. Metaphorically, the speaker emphasizes the theme of obsolescence by alluding to his own physical limitations and concern for his own mortality living in a “country” unfit for “old men” among

In ‘In Memory of WB Yeats,’ Auden parallels historical and political events and personalities, using the legacy of WB Yeats to represent the necessity of powerful literature in influencing political perspectives. He presents the poem in the form of an elegy to show his admiration of Yeats’ influence despite his death as explicated in ‘words of a dead man are modified in the guts of the living’. The juxtaposition of dead and living pronounces the power of poetry and its timelessness. The metaphor ‘For poetry makes nothing happen … it survives, a way of happening, a mouth,’ exemplifies the immortality of poetry and its ability to revolutionise politics through the ideas spoken by people. Auden presents that the individual voice can shift

Keats feels the irresistible urge to write this beauty down in “high-piléd books, in charactery,” (line 3), before he dies. The need to describe in words what one cannot hold on is clear, for in lines 12-14 it is written “then on the shore Of the wide world I stand alone, and think Till love and fame and nothingness do sink.”. Connect this to the other lines 1-12 in this poem, it is evident that unless he can write the magnificence of nature down before he dies, which may be anytime, love and fame in the world means nothing to him. The tone in the last 2-3 lines shifts compared to the other lines. It becomes uncommitted to matters, such as high aspirations. His relationship with his craft exists solely due to nature and its unchallenged beauty, and Keats’s craft’s purpose is to write on nature’s charm. It is a necessary link on the poet’s part.

Yeats is essentially a poet of ‘modern complexities’. His transition from ‘romantic’ to ‘modern’ is perhaps the failure of hope or vision he had for Ireland and thus, he resorted to the modern tone of distress and hopelessness similar to the case of Eliot in Hollow Men. Inactivity of the generation made him suffocated and thus, he wrote Sailing to Byzantium, a utopian civilization for the old yet energetic, the city of Byzantium.

“If Poetry comes not as naturally as Leaves to a tree it had better not come at all” (biography). John Keats was an English-born poet who was known for his sonnets, romances, and epics. He was a well-known romantic poet who was criticized because of his style of poetry. In his poems, Keats uses frequent themes such as death, the five senses, reality departures, and nature. As a romantic poet, John Keats uses imagery and emotion based themes as way to display his beliefs in his poetry.