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There are very few who even care for poetry; only 6.7% of American adults offered their time and commitment to it last year. Poetry doesn’t matter anymore because it is too indirect, depressing, and confusing for our current generation. Poetry is too indirect for our current generation because we usually like things straightforward and concise. The poem “Sonnet 18” by William Shakespeare states, “Nor shall Death brag thou wand’rest in his shade, / When in eternal lines to time thou grow’st,” (Shakespeare

`A thing of beauty is a joy forever`. How far and in what ways does Keats communicate this belief in his odes. Emotion was the key element of any Romantic poet, the intensity of which is present in all of Keats poems. Keats openly expressed feelings ignoring stylistic rules which suppressed other poets. Keat’s poems display a therapeutic experience, as many of his Odes show a sense of struggle to accept, and a longing to search for an emotion which he could feed off for his eternity.

The Esthetic Theory and A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man    In A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, Stephen Dedalus defines beauty and the artist's comprehension of his/her own art. Stephen uses his esthetic theory with theories borrowed from St. Thomas Aquinas and Plato. The discourse can be broken down into three main sections: 1) A definitions of beauty and art. 2) The apprehension and qualifications of beauty. 3) The artist's view of his/her own work. I will explain how the

Hypothesis: John Keats’ Odes were heavily influence by Classical ideologies which related to the wider philosophy of the Romantic Movement. This essay will apply a Classical perspective to John Keats’ Odes. I will examine how John Keats was inspired by the ideologies of the Greeks and Roman mythology. John Keats based his Odes on Roman myths and Greek artefacts; he used these to explore wider themes that relate to Greek Philosophy. This essay will show how Keats related the wider philosophy of the

The Effect of John Keats' Health on His Work         In his elegy for the poet John Keats, Adonais, his friend and fellow poet Percy Bysshe Shelley writes: "With me / Died Adonais; till the Future dares / Forget the Past, his fate and fame shall be / An echo and a light unto eternity" (6-9).  Shelley speaks of the eternal nature of Keats' poetry, which, although written at a specific time in literary history, addresses timeless issues such as life, death, love,

“The Bear” is a short story by William Faulkner that explores the journey a coming-of-age boy takes on while surrounding himself by the wilderness to hunt an enormous animal. Throughout the story, he faces many obstacles, both mentally and physically that prevent him from killing Ben. At the end of “The Bear” the boy came face to face with Ben and had the opportunity to kill the animal, but chose not to in order to save the dog. Through the directions of his father, Sam Fathers, and his own determination

At one time or another, every person has experienced the beauty of summer. In this time of the year, nature is full of life, the weather is at its finest, and the paramount joys of life can be experienced to their fullest. Then the fall comes, the trees turn lovely shades of red and yellow, and the wind offers a nice chill breeze for relief. Unfortunately, seasons change and the beauty that people once experienced vanishes. People focusing only on the material and petty aspects of life, rather than

Influences on the Romantic Period Romanticism spawned in the late 18th century and flourished in the early and mid-19th century. Romanticism emphasized the irrational, the imaginative, the personal, the spontaneous, the emotional, the visionary, the transcendental, and the individual. Romanticism is often viewed as a rejection of the ideologies of Classicism and Neoclassicisms, namely calm, order, harmony, idealization, rationality and balance. Some characteristics of Romanticism include: emotion

Romanticism was away for poets to express their feelings emotions and their personal views of nature. Romanticism started in the mid-eighteenth century and achieved its stature in the nineteenth century. The Romantic writing of the nineteenth century holds in its themes the goals of the day and age, focusing on feeling, nature, and the articulation of "nothing." The Romantic time was one that centered around the shared trait of mankind and, while utilizing feeling and nature; the writers and their

ruled by oligarchies and aristocracies. In 508 B.C., a city state set itself apart from the rest of the world by becoming a democracy. Athens, an influential “polis,” which is an ancient Greek city-state. Athens, which was located in the southeastern Grecian peninsula known as Attica, was the world’s first democracy. The Athenian Democracy lasted for 186 years, and even after it fell in 322 B.C., there were still traces of democracy in the Athenian government. The plan of government that the Athenians