Each of them is a unique experience, but each of them is also, as it were, a facet of a larger experience. This larger experience is an intense awareness of both the joy and pain, the happiness and the sorrow, of human life. This awareness is feeling and becomes also thought, a kind of brooding as the poet sees them in others and feels them in himself. This awareness is not only feeling; it becomes also thought, a kind of brooding contemplation of the lot of human beings, who must satisfy their desire for happiness in a world where joy and pain are inevitably and inextricably tied together.
This union of joy and pain is the fundamental fact of human experience that Keats has observed and accepted as true. Wright Thomas and Stuart Gerry Brown In "Ode to a Nightingale" and "Ode on a Grecian Urn," Keats tries to free himself from the world of change by identifying with the nightingale, representing nature, or the urn, representing art.
Keats's Imagery Keats's imagery ranges among all our physical sensations: sight, hearing, taste, touch, smell, temperature, weight, pressure, hunger, thirst, sexuality, and movement. O for a beaker of the warm South, stanza II Here the poet TASTES the visual "Flora and the country green" , activity "Dance" , sound "Provencal song" , and mood or pleasure "mirth" ; also the visual "sunburnt" is combined with a pleasurable emotional state "mirth".
With the beaker there is finally something to taste, but what is being tasted is temperature "warm" and a location "South". This image describes light filtering through leaves moved by the wind. What three sensory experiences are combined in this line? Paintings and Illustrations of Keats's Poems Keats's poems have appealed to artists and illustrators, particularly from the 's through the s. According to Richard Altick, at least twenty paintings and illustrations have been made of each of these poems.
Keats's appeal for painters and illustrators is a tribute to how vivid and sensual his imagery is and how his poems stimuate the imagination of his readers. There are other reasons why painters and illustrators were drawn to him: he wrote about art and artists and was friendly with many artists; also the publication of his collected works in and of a biography in aroused a general interest in Keats and helped to establish his position as one of England's greatest poets. Keats, Online overview Lyric Poems , pp.
Lyric Poems , pp. The following year, Keats' published "Endymion," a mammoth four-thousand line poem based on the Greek myth of the same name. Keats had written the poem in the summer and fall of , committing himself to at least 40 lines a day. He completed the work in November of that year and it was published in April Keats' daring and bold style earned him nothing but criticism from two of England's more revered publications, Blackwood's Magazine and the Quarterly Review.
The attacks were an extension of heavy criticism lobbed at Hunt and his cadre of young poets. The most damning of those pieces had come from Blackwood's, whose piece, "On the Cockney School of Poetry," shook Keats and made him nervous to publish "Endymion. Keats' hesitation was warranted. Upon its publication the lengthy poem received a lashing from the more conventional poetry community. One critic called the work, the "imperturbable driveling idiocy of Endymion.
How much of an effect this criticism had on Keats is uncertain, but it is clear that he did take notice of it. But Shelley's later accounts of how the criticism destroyed the young poet and led to his declining health, however, have been refuted.
Keats in fact, had already moved beyond "Endymion" even before it was published. By the end of , he was reexamining poetry's role in society. In lengthy letters to friends, Keats outlined his vision of a kind of poetry that drew its beauty from real world human experience rather than some mythical grandeur.
Keats was also formulating the thinking behind his most famous doctrine, Negative Capability , which is the idea that humans are capable of transcending intellectual or social constraints and far exceed, creatively or intellectually, what human nature is thought to allow. In effect Keats was responding to his critics, and conventional thinking in general, which sought to squeeze the human experience into a closed system with tidy labels and rational relationships.
Keats saw a world more chaotic, more creative than what others he felt, would permit. In the summer of , Keats took a walking tour in Northern England and Scotland. He returned home later that year to care for his brother, Tom, who'd fallen deeply ill with tuberculosis. Keats, who around this time fell in love with a woman named Fanny Brawne, continued to write.
He'd proven prolific for much of the past year. His work included his first Shakespearean sonnet, "When I have fears that I may cease to be," which was published in January Keats spent the summer of on a walking tour in Northern England and Scotland, returning home to care for his brother, Tom, who suffered from tuberculosis.
While nursing his brother, Keats met and fell in love with a woman named Fanny Brawne. Agnes, and Other Poems. The three title poems, dealing with mythical and legendary themes of ancient, medieval, and Renaissance times, are rich in imagery and phrasing. He continued a correspondence with Fanny Brawne and—when he could no longer bear to write to her directly—her mother, but his failing health and his literary ambitions prevented their getting married.
He died there on February 23, , at the age of twenty-five, and was buried in the Protestant cemetery.
National Poetry Month. Materials for Teachers Teach This Poem. Poems for Kids. Poetry for Teens. Lesson Plans. Resources for Teachers. He was buried in Rome. The writing style of John Keats is overwhelmed by poetic devices such as personification, alliteration, metaphors, assonance, and consonance. These devices are put together, which creates the music and rhythm in the poems.
Similarly, his poetry is also characterized by sensual imagery. Moreover, the diction used by Keats is also connotative. The odes written by Keats are a unique achievement in poetry. Being the last romantic poet, he shows the typical aspects of Romanticism in his poetry. Though Keats wrote for only three years, the poems he wrote in these three years become the hallmark of the literary canon and make him one of the greatest and most celebrated poets in English Literature.
Though the themes of his poems are not concerned with nature, he implied the poetic devices to make his poetry gentle and romantic. Similarly, in Romanticism, we also find the appreciation of past writers, mythology, and Latin. Keats and other traditional Romantics would likely focus on the remote past, ancient myth, and fairy tales to escape from the harsh realities of life and the unwelcoming modern 19 th century.
Keats writes his poetry in rhymed iambic pentameter; however, it is not exactly like the simple heroic couplet used by the poet of the previous century. We seldom find end-stops at the end of the poetry. He uses enjambment normally as his verses flow into one another, particularly in a narrative poem. To present the individual characters in the poem, Keats never coupled the narrative and the dramatic power. He would display the characters with expressive moods as he had mastered the lyrical powers.
The moods were often romantic, pensive, lethargic, sadness, or ecstatic delight.
0コメント