Free Essays on John Keats

  1. John Keats: One of the Most Famous English Poets

    John Keats was one of the most famous English poets of the Romantic Movement. His personal life had a considerable effect on his work, as well as the social and political events of the time, “time of upheaval in all quarters a time of new political thinking, of social and humanitarian reform, a revolutionary...

  2. John Keats - Personal Response

    John Keats - A Personal Response “Beauty is truth, truth beauty – that is all / Ye know on earth and all you need to know” One of the things I find most attractive about John Keats’ poetry is his admiration, value, respect and want for beauty in life, which is portrayed perfectly in this closing...

  3. John Keats Ode on a Grecian Urn

    In his poem “Ode on a Grecian Urn”, John Keats reflects upon a rare and valuable object of observation, the images of which offered him tremendous poetic inspirations. In accordance with the subject matter that relates a great work of art, the poet draws attention, through his poetic devices, to the...

  4. Shelley and Keats

    Autumnal Theme in English Romantic Poetry: Shelley^Òs "Ode to the West Wind" and Keats^Òs "To Autumn." A season of autumn is traditionally associated with transience and mutability, with dying of nature and expectations of the following winter time. For Romantic poets who are known for their...

  5. Poet Cornered (John Keats Interview)

    Standard Assessment Task 2 POET CORNERED John Keats Interview. Introduction: Good evening everyone, tonight I will be interviewing the famous poet John Keats. He is noted as one of the principal poets of the English Romantic movement. Keats’s poetry...

  6. Keats' Nightingale: An Essay on Actuality and Imagination

    Keats' Nightingale: An Essay on Actuality and Imagination A critical deconstruction and analysis concerning the elements of actuality and imagination in Keats' Nightingale. If any of the poetry of the 19th century?s Early Romantics may be said to have produced a complete articulation of the ever-present...

  7. r.paper

    In this poem Keats describes the season of Autumn. The ode is an address to the season. It is the season of the mist and in this season fruits are ripened on the collaboration with the Sun. Autumn loads the vines with grapes. There are apple trees near the moss growth cottage. The season fills the apples...

  8. Fear of Death

    The poet John Keats stands out among other poets. His young age contrasts with his deep poetry. His melancholy poems reflect many tragic events that happened in his life. Some of his works, for example, the poem “When I Have Fears That I May Cease To Be”, are inspired by the largest tragedy of his life...

  9. Reflection on “La Bella Dame sans Merci”

    interesting and help to support the written poem by author John Keats in the year of eighteen hundred nineteen. John Keats was born October 31, 1795 and died February 23, 1821 at the age of 29 from advanced stage of tuberculosis. While “on his deathbed Keats requested that his tombstone bear no name, only the...

  10. To Autom

    To Autumn by John Keats “To Autumn” is one of the most famous, and perfect odes written by John Keats, and any modern writer. It is quite fitting that his greatest piece was the last one that he ever wrote before he met with his unfortunate end. However, this ode has some significant differences...

  11. An Owner’s Guide to Suffering; Ode to Melancholy

    happiness is. Suffering also reminds us not to take anything for granted. In “Ode on Melancholy,” poet John Keats, states that suffering and happiness are inseparable and always shadow each other. Keats uses vivid imagery to express that we must learn to enjoy joy and suffering together; as in they only...

  12. Show How “Kubla Khan” and “La Belle Dame Sans Merci” Create Imaginative Effects, Rather Than Specific Themes and Meaning. Describe Your Response to the Poems and Explain How the Writers Create It.

    imaginative effects, rather than specific themes and meaning. Describe your response to the poems and explain how the writers create it. Both John Keats and Samuel Taylor Coleridge create strong imaginative effects, which in turn overshadows the specific themes and meanings of the actual words of...

  13. Miss

    may be elaborate, but the ideas are essentially simple.” Discuss this view John Keats and William Blake. The view that that poetry presents simple ideas in an intricate fashion is certainly descriptive of John Keats poem The Human Seasons, where the poet reflects on the life of man using the seasons...

  14. La Belle Dam Sans Merci

    La Belle Dame Sans Merci was written by John Keats. Many people have interpreted this poem and many,completely different interpretations have been explained. Lots of people believe the theme of this poem is idealised love, others think that La Belle is John Keats muse and he is writing about his loss of...

  15. Themes of Conflict in Poems and Stories

    the conflict one faces when faced with the ultimate finality of death. I found the theme of conflict in our readings in the poems and stories of John Keats “When I have fears that I may cease to be”, Langston Hughes “Dream Deferred” and Alice Walker’s short story “Everyday Use”. In this essay I hope...

  16. The Evil's Depiction in Macbeth

    ability to write poetry which can be thought-provoking, occasionally disturbing but always moving" Write your response. Keats was: Write a personal response to the poetry of John Keats Might consider -Themes and ideas -Use of language and imagery -Your favourite poems Bishop: "Emotional intensity...

  17. The Romantic Period - 1798-1832

    consisted of many talented artists and poets that helped the word love come to life. Poets like Robert Burns, William Blake, William Wordsworth, and John Keats. These poets incorporated three main characteristics: a man’s worth and dignity, the beauty of nature, and using pure imagination. During the romantic...

  18. essays

    serene environment. In addition to the question of whether romanticism is concerned with nature the writer of the poem ‘Ode to a Nightingale’ John Keats expresses wonderful emotions that are as a result of the nature. He is envious of the nightingale which seems happy with its surrounding which is...

  19. Inner Tension in Keats Poems

    tension that he was facing. In his letter to Benjamin Bailey in 1817, Keats expressed what kind of life he really wanted, that is “ O for a life of Sensations rather than Thoughts!”. Through this statement, we learn that Keats didn’t want to live a life that is full of thinking, but rather a life that...

  20. Hamlet

    Prayer for My Daughter: William Butler Yeats 4. The Shield of Achilles: W. H. Auden 5. The Raven: Edgar Allen Poe 6. Ode on a Grecian Urn: John Keats Appendix I...

  21. emily dickinson

    Dickinson’s poetry was greatly influenced by the Metaphysical poets in 17C England. Dickinson idolized the poetry of Robert ,Elizabeth Barett Browning and John Keats. ‘Poems’ was advertised in 1890.The themes of her poems cover death , immortality and letters to his friend. Emily introduced the idea of book...

  22. Enduring Love: a Psychological Thriller

    fails. Joe buys a gun to protect and defend himself against Jed. Clarissa Mellon – She is Joe’s girlfriend and researching about the poems of John Keats. When Jed stalked Joe, Clarissa first did not believe him but in the end when Jed threatens her with a knife she regrets she did not believe him...

  23. La Bell Dame Sans Merci

    La Belle Dame sans Merci John Keats O what can ail thee, knight-at-arms, Alone and palely loitering? The sedge has withered from the lake, And no birds sing. O what can ail thee, knight-at-arms, So haggard and so woe- begone? The squirrel’s granary is full, And the harvest’s done. I see...

  24. Gothic Genre Context

    a private school. A group of British Romantic poets emerged in England during 1798 to 1832, which included William Wordsworth, Lord Byron and John Keats. These writers influenced literature throughout the nineteenth century. The Brontës were also familiar with the writings of these British Romantic...

  25. Brief Information for Major American Authors of the Romanticism Period in Britain.

    William Godwin, and her mother was the philosopher and feminist Mary Wollstonecraft. In 1816, the couple famously spent a summer with Lord Byron, John William Polidori, and Claire Clairmont near Geneva, Switzerland, where Mary conceived the idea for her novel Frankenstein. Until the 1970s, Mary...

  26. Wilfred Owen's Timeline

    Command Depot in Ripon. Occupation: English poet and solider. (Known to many as the leading poet of the First World War.) His early influences were John Keats and the Bible. Wilfred Owens' poetry was influeced by his experiences at war. Died: November 4th 1918. Aged 25. Wilfred Owen died at Sambre-Oise...

  27. The Testing Site.

    Save Paper 2 Page 395 Words Essay Comparing 6 Poems  Essay Comparing 6 poems Robert Browning’s “My Last Duchess”, John Keats’s “La Belle Dame sans Merci. A Ballad.” And William Shakespeare’s “Sonnet 116 Let me not to the marriage…” All of those poems have a similar theme...

  28. art off characterization

    is mastered by thought and practice. 2. “Organic form” -- “If Poetry comes not as naturally as leaves to a tree it had better not come at all” (Keats, 1818) -- Organic form “shapes as it develops itself from within, and the fullness of its development is one and the same with the perfection of its...

  29. Save Nature and Wild Life

    walk and finally concluded to stay out till sundown, for going out, I found, was really going in. ~John Muir, 1913, in L.M. Wolfe, ed., John Muir, John of the Mountains: The Unpublished Journals of John Muir, 1938 What humbugs we are, who pretend to live for Beauty, and never see the Dawn! ~Logan Pearsall...

  30. Emily Dickson's Family Life

    and influenced many other authors and poets into the 21st Century. She admired the poetry of Robert and Elizabeth Barrett Browning, as well as John Keats. Though she was dissuaded from reading the verse of her contemporary Walt Whitman by rumor of its disgracefulness, the two poets are now connected...

  31. Sonnets

    English verse, by Dryden and Pope, among others, and written again during the heyday of English Romanticism, when Wordsworth, Shelley, and particularly John Keats created wonderful sonnets. Today, the sonnet remains the most influential and important verse form in the history of English poetry. Two kinds of...

  32. The Universal Themes of Frankenstein

    and novels. Some marvelous poets include, Robert Burns, William Blake, William Wordsworth, Samuel Taylor, Coleridge Lord Byron, Percy Shelley, and John Keats. The major theme of Number the Stars is the difficulty of growing up. Lowry uses the war to demonstrate how confusing the separation between childhood...

  33. Six poem coursework

    appeal every audience. The poems, ‘Havisham’, ‘My Last Duchess’ and ‘La Belle Dame sans Merci: A Ballad’ by poets Carol Ann Duffy, Robert Browning and John Keats, dealt with the negative emotions that are essential in romantic relationships. In contrast to the three poems, ‘Sonnet 116’, ‘Mother in a Refugee...

  34. Analysis of

    dashes, and capitalization. Some say Dickinson was one of the most original poets of the 19th century. She had influences of such acclaimed writers as John Keats, and Elizabeth Barrett Browning; but maintained her own ingenuity, and strayed from other popular writers of the time. Through the poem “I dwell...

  35. brief layout

    Shakespeare, Ben Jonson, John Donne and many others. Another great poet, from later in the 17th century, was John Milton (1608-1674) author of the epic poem Paradise Lost (1667). The late 17th and the early 18th century are particularly associated with satire, especially in the poetry of John Dryden and Alexander...

  36. The Concept of Beauty in Literature

    better and have never been achieved contentment. As I have read the literary pieces, I have learned how people give their own defifition of beauty. John Keats’ “Ode on a Grecian Urn” is a Romantic ode in Iambic Pentameter. It describes a perfect scene of beauty and peace. The first stanza introduces us...

  37. bayerish

    Jena Institut für Anglistik/Amerikanistik Hauptseminar: Contemporary British Fiction Dozent/in: J. Williams WS 2009/10 Metafictionality in John Fowles’s The French Lieutenant’s Woman Daniel Müller Stadtrodaer Str. 8 07743 Jena Daniel.Mueller@uni-jena.de LA JM Englisch / Geographie Matrikelnummer:...

  38. Was Weber Right to Argue the Uniqueness of the West

    instilled into the minds of the first pioneers of our post-modern society. Many observers, such as William Petty, Montesquieu, Henry Thomas Buckle, John Keats, and others have commented on the affinity between Protestantism and the development of European “spiritual” commercialism. However, with Weber he...

  39. literary criticism

    be considered a separate field of inquiry from literary theory, or conversely from book reviewing, is a matter of some controversy. For example, the Johns Hopkins Guide to Literary Theory and Criticism draws no distinction between literary theory and literary criticism, and almost always uses the terms...

  40. Draft Bob Dylan

    period orplace. When a work is entered into the canon, it gains official inclusion into a group of literary works that are widely studied and respected.” John Hellman, a professor at Ohio State University Lima campus said, “The literary canon is a work-in-progress and it reflects both the original contributions...

  41. Nature in in Memoriam

    poems content. The basic format for an elegy is death. The first elegy written was “Lycidas” by John Milton in 1903. “Adonais” by Percy Bysshe Shelley is also a famous elegy on the death of John Keats, a poet and friend to Shelley. There is no elegy tradition in English literature. Tennyson has...

  42. Literature

    THE OXFORD BOOK OF Sonnets EDITED BY JOHN FULLER OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS CONTENTS Introduction SIR THOMAS WYATT (?15O3-1542) xxv 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 1. 'Whoso list to hunt, I know where is an hind' 2. 'Farewell, love, and all thy laws for ever' 3. 'Unstable dream...

  43. Narrative Writing

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  44. Topic

    Love and Death in the Poetry of Emily Dickinson 4. Love and Despair: "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock" 5. Truth and Beauty in the Poetry of John Keats 6. Forms of Narrative Poetry 7. The Origins of Lyric Poetry 8. Emotion and Idea: What Does Poetry Convey? 9. What Makes a Poem Good? 10...

  45. Bob Dylan's Career As a Blakean Vision

    terms—political, existential, metaphysical, psychological—with the perennial dilemmas of human existence that confront thinking man once he has left (to use Keats’ phrase) the chamber of maiden thought. The group of related ideas and themes common to Blake and Dylan might be summed up as human freedom, dignity...

  46. Muet

    (2005) ELT Methodology, Principal and Practice Second Edition. Longman. Pye, (2003) Vocabulary in Practice Four. Press Publication. Soars, Liz and John (1996) New Headway: Intermediate. Oxford University Press.Glennis. Speaking Betty Kirkpatrick, (2004) English for Social Interaction. Learners...

  47. An Epic Hero

    Ode on a Grecian Urn In the poem there are different stanzas. In will explain the first three in the story. Keats calls the vase, ‘an unravished bride of quietness’ relating to the fact that it has existed for centuries and has stood against the eroding effects of the passage of time...

  48. John 1

    John 1 New International Version (NIV) The Word Became Flesh 1 In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. 2 He was with God in the beginning. 3 Through him all things were made; without him nothing was made that has been made. 4 In him was life, and that life...

  49. John Buddy Pearsons Eulogy

    John Buddy Pearson was a brother, husband, mayor, preacher, and a carpenter. I am pretty sure that John has left a lot of people with some good memories of what he has done and accomplished in his life time. As some of you already know, John was an admirer of beautiful women. He was also known as a...

  50. John Lennon

    John Lennon the great John Lennon was born on October 9, 1940 in Liverpool, England. When he was four years old, his parents separated and he ended up living with his Aunt Mimi. John's father was a merchant seaman and John did not see a lot of his father when he was small. As a child, John was a...

  51. John Cabot

    {text:bookmark-start} John Cabot John Cabot was born in Genoa, Italy in 1450. His father was Julio Cabot, a seaman and a merchant. In 1461, when John was 11, his family moved to Venice. One of John's favorite things to do was to watch the silk and spice shops. His father owned a spice shop and John helped out...

  52. John and Elizabeth

    In the beginning of Act 2 there was a great feeling of detachment and tension in the Proctor household. We see John trying to start a conversation with Elizabeth and she only gives him short answers to please him. Then the tide turns to her questioning him and he is the one that becomes short...

  53. King John

    King John The play questions the legitimacy and fitness of King John being the king of England. Arthur was the son of the previous king's eldest brother, making him the rightful heir, but John was chosen to rule by the previous sovereign. Yet in the case of the Bastard, John rules that a will cannot...

  54. Dear John Discussed

    Dear John True love is to give the person you love everything he or she needs to be happy. Sometimes people think that love means being with the person you love and be happy together, but many times, love means making the other person happy, even if that is not what makes you happy. In this book...

  55. John and Abgail

    THE CRUCIBLE John Proctor was a local farmer who lives just outside town. Elizabeth Proctor is his wife. A stern, harsh tongued man, John hates hypocrisy. Nevertheless, he has a hidden sin and that is his affair with Abigail Williams that proves his downfall. When the hysteria begins, he hesitates...

  56. Book of John

     The gospel of John was written so that many may believe in the coming of the lord Jesus Christ. In chapter one, of the book of John, the Lord uses John as an advocate to bear witness of the Light, Jesus Christ, that all men through him might believe. John continues to ministers to the people and...

  57. John Von Neumann Biography

    Ryan Hendrix 2nd period 10-28-08 John von Neumann John Neumann was born December 28, 1903 in Hungary. John was only six years old and could divide eight-digit numbers in his head. John studied chemistry in university in 1921 and received his diploma in Chemical Engineering in 1925. Von Neumann...

  58. John Wayne Gacy

    Who is John Wayne Gacy Jr.? Well some people may say that John is a family man, a caring person, and a hardworking business man. He would even dress up as a clown and go to the local hospital to cheer up the kids in there. And these statements about John are probably true because he was a nice and...

  59. John

    made a big impact in the book were John Proctor and Abigail Williams. Their affair starts out before the play begins. This affair created Abigail's jealousy for John's wife, Elizabeth. This also created the whole witch accusing in motion. Once the trials have begun John realizes he can stop Abigail’s rant...

  60. The Crucible: an Analysis of John Proctor

    Lower Joshua 10/12/11 Fry 5th hour The Crucible: An analysis of John Proctor In early America, witches, murder, death, and the devil were always present, a supernatural norm. In fact, it is still the norm for all of the Faith holding people in the world. However, in this time the supernatural...