John Keats’ brilliance as a poet can be seen and felt by any careful reader who absorbs his work, but his true genius becomes apparent because of two particular odes, Ode On Melancholy and To Autumn. As both pieces of work are read, a great bridge is erected and the reader can see that the ...
The use of time and memory within poetry are two of the most constant themes in the works of the Romantic poets. Two of these poets, John Keats and William Wordsworth, employ these themes in some of their most prominent poetic works. In “Ode on a Grecian Urn,” Keats describes pastoral imagery that is painted ...
Birds are well represented in Romantic poetry. Their gifts of flight and song have been used as metaphorical examinations of the poets’ dreams and desires. They have been imagined as creatures close to spiritual perfection as any found on earth. One can imagine that birds indeed might strike a fantastic and otherworldly presence to Romantic ...
*Author’s note: These are being published to provide students with a fresh perspective on some frequently-studied works of American and British literature and relevant classic movies shown in progressive English literature classes. Feel free to play around with my point of view but please do not plagiarize in part or in whole. Consider my text ...
John Keats was born in London, England, on October 31, 1795 (although, the true date is unknown, because Keats never admitted the real day of his birthday), the first child out of five, to Frances Jennings Keats and Thomas Keats. In 1804 while Keats was ten, John’s father died in an accident at work, and ...
