The Romantic Poets By William Wordsworth

The similarities between the poems lie in their abilities to utilize imagery as a means to enhance the concept of the fleeting nature that life ultimately has and to also help further elaborate the speaker’s opinion towards their own situation. In Keats’ poem, dark and imaginative images are used to help match with the speaker’s belief that both love and death arise from fate itself. Here, Keats describes the beauty and mystery of love with images of “shadows” and “huge cloudy symbols of a high romance” to illustrate his belief that love comes from fate, and that he is sad to miss out on such an opportunity when it comes time for his own death.

Composed during the most creative period in Keats’s brief poetic career, “Ode to a Nightingale” has long been regarded as one of the most refined works of his poetry. Previous criticism has comprehensively explored its themes of nature, beauty and mortality, as well as its demonstration of Keats’s notion of Negative Capability. But based on my research, few critical reviews have touched upon the point which I find clearly suggest itself in this poem: that the poet’s experience here depicted is not merely an escape into the realm of ideal beauty, but also an intoxication with the Romantic sublime. Between the sublime and

Truth remains a mysterious essential: sought out, created, and destroyed in countless metaphysical arguments through time. Whether argued as being absolute or relative, universal or personal, no thought is perceived or conceived without an assessment of its truth. In John Keats' "Ode on a Grecian Urn" and E.E. Cummings' "since feeling is first" the concern is not specifically the truth of a thought, but rather, the general nature of truth; the foundation which gives truth is trueness . Both poets replace investigation with decision, and that which would be argumentation in the hands of philosophers becomes example and sentiment in their poems. Each poet's

John Keats’s “Ode on a Grecian Urn” is written through the power of eternity, beauty and truth regardless of existence, as Wordsworth showed likewise. Keats illustrated his poem through love in its sublime. For example, in the first stanza he says, “What wild ecstasy?” (Keats 930). If ecstasy is a huge feeling of

The Romantic Period of prose of poetry created a form that promoted the focus on the supernatural, the natural world, and newfound interest in what was once overlooked. Born in different times and with distinct circumstances, both John Keats and Christina Rossetti took to poetry to convey their own ideas, shaped by this revolutionary time. Keats faced the brevity of life much more severely and took on a more grandiose, dramatic form of romantic poetry when compared to Christina Rossetti. However, both had a similar tone in observing the natural world and conveying the emotion that compelled from within. The impact of the Romantic Movement can be felt as one reads through both John Keats and Christina Rossetti. While differences may exist, and their portrayal is a unique experience of one’s own, elements of the great Romantic time permeates through both of these marvelous poets.

m, and to try to understand its significance, then he/she will be left behind it, none-the-wiser. In Ode on a Grecian Urn, Keats states “heard melodies are sweet, but those unheard are sweeter .” The elements are that tangible and noticeable are important, but it is the unseen or unnoticed elements that hold a greater meaning. The noticeable elements, such as the people, the towns, and the material possessions only last for a short time, so they are sweet while they last, but the unseen elements, such as love, happiness, messages, cultures, and beliefs, are sweeter because they accompany time as it changes from one event to the next, as they do through the urn, delivered by its art to Keats. He additionally states “soft pipes, play

'Ode to a Grecian Urn' is a poem about a vase, but Keats has inverted

British romantic poetry was remarkable for a myriad of reasons. Not only did it vouch for a focus on nature in literature, but also showed an increased interest in both the emotion of the average person, and a heightened esteem for imagination as well as the wonder and amazement that accompanied children. Of course, it showed a darker side of the world as well, with some of the more distinguished writers focusing on the poor and how they lived. Stylistically, there was also a clear influence from Greek culture, with many poems taking inspiration from Greece’s literature and culture, along with other supernatural aspects that were added in.

The twenty-four old romantic poet John Keats, “Ode on a Grecian Urn” written in the spring of 1819 was one of his last of six odes. That he ever wrote for he died of tuberculosis a year later. Although, his time as a poet was short he was an essential part of The Romantic period (1789-1832). His groundbreaking poetry created a paradigm shift in the way poetry was composed and comprehended. Indeed, the Romantic period provided a shift from reason to belief in the senses and intuition. “Keats’s poem is able to address some of the most common assumptions and valorizations in the study of Romantic poetry, such as the opposition between “organic culture” and the alienation of modernity”. (O’Rourke, 53) The irony of Keats’s Urn is he likens

Scott writes in “Keats's Poetry and the Politics of the Imagination” that Keats himself wished, “among the English poets” (Scott, Keats's Poetry and the Politics of the Imagintion by Daniel P. Watkins, 1991, p. 408) His studies had been much more taken with language and psychology than with history or politics. It was given in Watkins's book that Keats spent more time reading The Examiner than reading Milton and Shakespeare and due to that reason he was more influenced by Hunt than the library of Cowden Clarke (409). At that time, Keats appeared too much like an essayist, a journalist, a commentator, and not enough like a poet. In this light, Watkins reads the extreme individualism and subjectivity of Keats's poetry as "a sign of the bourgeois fragmentation of human life" (409). In his longer poem Endymion, he built a journey for liberating individual power as a response to social disintegration. This involved the active denial of the public world and the ensuing sacrifice of history, society, and women for the designs of the private self. In Isabella, the relations of production and human experience under capitalism; in Hyperion, the true complexity of the social and historical conflict that threatens the Titans; in Lamia, the realities of existence in a market economy; and in Ode on a Grecian Urn there was everything: history, politics, colonialism, the oppression of women, rape, and the destruction of Greece. In this book, Keats's use and misuse of history were also provoking, that was to say, the Marxist machinery was appeared too large and Keats's politics were viewed through an example governed by reductive oppositions, broad definitions of the bourgeoisie, and unchallenged ideological assumptions about the peaceful conditions of the pre capitalist agricultural

Of all the great poets of the early nineteenth century, John Keats (1795-1821) was the last to be born and first to die. Born in London, England, on October 31, 1795, to a poor stable keeper, John Keats devoted his short life to the perfection of poetry marked by intense imagery, great sensuous appeal and an attempt to express a philosophy through classical legend. Although he was brought up amid surroundings and influences by no means calculated to awaken poetic genius. Rendered an orphan at the tender age of eight, his father’s death had a deep rooted effect on the young boy’s life. In a more metaphysical sense, it shaped his understanding of the human condition, both its suffering and its loss. This tragedy and others helped Keats’ later

The major writers in Romanticism are Percy Shelly, Lord Byron, John Keats, William Blake, William Wordsworth, and Samuel Taylor Coleridge. I will be examining two second generation Romantic poets Lord Byron, Percy Shelly, I have chosen to examine the poems; She walks in beauty, and A Lament based on the ideas most valued by Romantic poets; Love and beauty, and youth and inevitable death.

Keats’ “Ode to a Nightingale,” can be classified as one of those most well-known Odes to ever be written. Although the poem is a tough lyrical poem to understand, it is as if the poet feels the pain and bleakness from the day to day repetitiveness of life; therefore, seeks to disappear into the make-believe world of the Nightingale to find relief which eventually leads him to acknowledgment. While listening to the Nightingale sing, the poet describes Greek and Roman figures to enhance the feelings he is portraying. The poet described an inconsistent life of contradictory using the concept of life and death. As well as, representing the struggle of reality and fantasy achieved through a transformed state of mind. One can see the poet’s feelings are described by words that show the mood of the situation while his thoughts change throughout the poem.

Keats was born on October 31, 1795. He was the first born of Frances Jennings and Thomas Keats five children (“The Life of John Keats”). As a young boy he grew up poor. His father was a stable keeper and kept up the horses and other animals. One day he had gotten news that would change his life forever (“John Keats Biography”). His father was leaving from visiting John and his brother George at school. Thomas’ horse had slipped on the cobblestone and threw him on to the ground. Which caused his father to suffer from a fracture in his skull. Killing him a few hours later (“The Life of John Keats”).

The aim of this article is an attempt to know the different moods of the poet John Keats how Keats moves from Negation to Affirmation how he reacted against problems, how he turned between reality and unreality, joys and sufferings, imagination and reason, and how he turned towards poetry. The poet who once declared that he wanted to “fade for away, dissolve and quite