Essays on John Keats

) The text’s author suggests that Charles Darwin, author of the theory of evolution, actually possessed a romantic view of nature. If this so, what do the passages from The Origin of Species on page 212-3 tells us about what Charles Darwin (and Romantics in general) may have thought of nature. Gloria Fiero indeed suggests that Charles Darwin had a romantic view of nature. Before he authored the revolutionary but controversial theory of evolution, he had been exploring South America to the Pacific Ocean for a research on fossil. In his voyage, he had an intimate eye on every ...

Comparing “On Seeing the Elgin Marbles” by John Keats and “Ozymandias” by Perce Bysshe Shelley

Cushioned amidst the 1789 fall of the Bastille and 1815s the fall of Napoleon, the allegorical backdrop of British Romantic poetry is often besieged with relics and remnants. In Romantic poetry, the symbolism expressed and interpreted with the use of ruins is quite diverse and varied. While in on instance, ruin is a metaphor or the actual monument, it is elsewhere seen as a symbolic ruin of the poet or the narrator, and another instance can be seen as the formalistic relic of the Romantic poem, with its completely disconcerted connotation. The poet of Romantic poetry who uses ruin ...

Compare and Contrast Robert Frost's Mending wall to john Keats Ode on a Grecian Urn

The “Ode on a Grecian Urn” was written by Romantic poet John Keats in 1819 and is known for its profound meditation and conclusions on the nature of beauty. It highlights the issues of beauty, truth and eternity. It portrays Keats’ attempt to understand the eternity of sculpture, an art form. Robert Frost’s “Mending Wall” was written in 1914 and depicts how two men meet on terms of civility to repair a wall between them. This paper will try to compare and contrast “Ode on a Grecian Urn” with “Mending Wall” with regards to form, structure, and themes.

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The romantic era has a significant place in literary history. Running its course from 1780 to 1850, novelists and poets alike flocked to this genre as a form of expression. It was a bold and daring way to define one’s self. Conflicting with the current trend of enlightenment, it went beyond the single-minded philosophy enlightenment had adopted, allowing novelists and poets to transcend everything they and their readers believed writing and reading to be. Human nature was unvarying, and free in its emotion. The church had long since attempted to block this humanity from the world, but romanticism attempted to join ...

The article The Early History of the Guitar by Christopher Page in my opinion is an accurate depiction of the role and the rise of the early romantic guitar. The author’s depiction of the magnitude of the effects of the guitar in the early ages is entirely correct. The author says that the guitar is superior to the piano and the violin because of the fact that it covers more musically than the former and it can be learnt faster than the latter (Page, 2014). The guitar is arguably the most relevant musical instrument in the world today. ...

Written in October 1816, John Keats infamous poem is one of romance in terms of how it breaks down the simple act of reading. On First Looking into Chapman’s Homer was the climax in John Keats’ first collection of poems. The rhythms of the Chapman sonnet convey a wide-sweeping sense of movement – of planets circling the heavens, and ships circumnavigating the earth (Rumens). A gift for a beloved friend, Charles Cowden Clarke, the poem is a fantastically constant symbol of study as the sonnet defines an event in the creative journey, vital in significance to the progress of reading. The ...

This is a line extracted from the sonnet, “To the Nile” by John Keats. The extract explains broadly that the Nile River is significant both to the human and to the natural lives. Majorly, all through the poem, the writer explains the significance of rivers, more specifically river Nile. He writes that “the pleasant sun-rise, green isles hast thou too, And the as happily dost haste.” This explains the importance of this river in the environment, such as the vegetations that get the water supply from the banks of the river. The river also has its delta emptying in the ...

John Keats use of symbols in his writings

John Keats use of symbolism to portray his themes in his writings is phenomenal. In the Odes on a Grecian Urn the music and the musician are symbols that represent the beauty of love. The audience can not literally conceive the music but can imagine the music in their minds through the description of the musician playing the pipe. In the Ode to a Nightngale’ Keats use of birds chirping is symbolic of the immortality of art and the mortality of human beings (Blades, 2002; Nagar &Prasad, 2005). The human soul can do less but only imagine of the beauty of ...

What is the essence of nature, and does time impede that essence or is it a companion of nature, giving it its rhythms and courses? The Romantic poets of the eighteenth century spent a great deal of time pondering nature and time in their poetry, but none more so than William Wordsworth and John Keats. While both of them strove to understand man’s relation with nature and time, there were startling contrasts to how each of them approached the subjects. This contrast can be seen clearly in two poems, Wordsworth’s “I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud” and Keats’ “Ode on a ...

Introduction

Based on my reading of the assignment, I selected a ballad poem ‘La belle dame sans merci,’ written by John Keats who is one of the most sensuous poets amidst the romantics. A ballad is a narrative or a lyrical poem which talks about the supernatural, mythology, legends or documents tribal wars and oral lore. In this poem, Keats has been faithful to a narrative ballad where the supernatural elements and the characters are in place. The romantic element along with mystery and intrigue adds to the atmosphere of anticipation and a haunting quality. This poem, on the one hand, has elements of multiple ...

It has often been said that poetry and lyrics are one and the same: indeed, lyrics are undoubtedly the modern day equivalent of the popular poem of previous centuries; the rock stars are the poets. Whether poem or lyric, they convey human emotions, stories of love and loss, and conjure up imagery for the reader/listener to imagine. The purpose of this essay is to compare and contrast the words and ideas of one poem with its song counterpart. For this, I have chosen Ode on a Grecian Urn by John Keats and the lyrics to My Very Best by Elbow. ...