Category: John Keats
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The Theme of Love in John Keats’ Poems
John Keats’ poems “When I Have Fears” and “Bright Star” are remarkably similar, yet drastically different at the same time. The Shakespearean sonnets share rhyme scheme as well as subject matter, yet deal with different facets of the same topic. Each describes love as something extraordinarily important that one cannot live without, but neither reaches…
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Fear of Death and Frustration in The Works of John Keats and H.w. Longfellow
Throughout the analysis of the two pieces, “When I have Fears,” and “Mezzo Cammin” there was a similar theme, and use of language to portray it. The former poem was written by John Keats, in 1818, just several years before his death. It expresses sadness, as Keats had ill health and worried that he would…
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Literary Analysis of John Keats’s The Eve of St. Agnes
“The Eve of St. Agnes” tells the fantastic story of a bewitching night when two lovers consummate their relationship and elope. It takes place on the Eve of St. Agnes, a night when “young virgins have visions of delight,” giving the action of the poem a dreamy and otherworldly quality. But while the romance takes…
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Literary Analysis of John Keats’ Letters
After his death at the tender age of twenty-five, English poet John Keats left behind a legacy of hundreds of letters in addition to his published poems. These letters to family and friends feature a few common recipients, including his brothers Tom and George, his sister Fanny, his last love Fanny Brawne, and his good…
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The True Nature of Reality in John Keats’ to Autumn
Keats’ “To Autumn” is an ode that concerns itself more with the true nature of reality than many of his earlier works. The Spring Odes—“Ode to Psych”, “Ode to a Nightingale”, and “Ode on a Grecian Urn”—are all representative of consistent searching. The speaker in these odes is often yearning for an answer to several…
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The Concept of “Negative Capability” in John Keats’s Poetry
In an 1817 letter to his brothers, George and Thomas, John Keats describes a manner of thought that he calls “negative capability.” According to Keats, this is “when man is capable of being in uncertainties, Mysteries, doubts without any irritable reaching after fact and reason.” (968) For centuries, the meaning of this concept has been…
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The Dark Vision of Love in John Keats’ La Belle Dame Sans Merci
Keats is able to portray love in many different lights throughout the poem by linking ideas and meanings, like symbolism. His different uses of structure within the poem, come considered unusual for a ballad, also have connotations towards how love affects the main character. Unlike other poets, Keats creates an overall tone within the poem…
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Literary Analysis of John Keats’ Poems
Keats’s preoccupation with the inescapable precession of time and mutability is evident in all three poems: “Ode to a Nightingale,”, the ode “To Autumn” and the sonnet, “Bright Star, Would I were as Steadfast as Thou Art.” In his “Ode to a Nightingale,” the bird’s singing becomes a symbol for Keats, of a place that…
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J. Keats’s Views on Poetry in “My City”
The great thing about writing, and poetry in particular, is that there can be so many meanings to the same section of text, and that it can touch so many people that the author did not even know. It can also help that author. It helps them express held in feelings that they can just…
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Literary Analysis of John Keats’ Sonnet ‘On Fame’
John Keats sonnet written in April of 1819, titled ‘On Fame’, on first reading appears to be a love poem. Upon closer reading, it becomes clear that Keats is using women as a the nature of fame, by contrasting the two against each other. Keats uses phrases such as ‘like a wayward girl’ and ‘very…