John Keats

Time Rots William Faulkner and John Keats were born a century and thousands of miles apart, in worlds that were foundationally different. These differences helped shape their works and perspective, with Romanticism influencing Keats and Modernism influencing Faulkner. Though the two movements share an “oppos[ition] to reason and logic,” the medium they focused on differed widely (Tucker). Romanticists tended to find inspiration in the natural world while Modernists analyzed the way technology…

encounter death one day. Two poets, John Keats and Dylan Thomas, have both been affected by the limited time they or their loved ones have. In Keats’s case, he spent most of his adolescence and adulthood suffering from tuberculosis, an infectious bacterial disease with a high probability of death during the 17th and 18th century. Knowing that he had a limited time to live, Keats was morbidly fascinated with the thought of his own demise. As a result, in 1818, Keats originally wrote “When I have…

Gerard Manley Hopkins’ “Spring” vs. John Keats’ “To Autumn” Gerard Manley Hopkins’ Italian sonnet, “Spring” and John Keats’ ode, “To Autumn” are both similar and different in their use of literary devices. The poems’ similar titles, both seasons, are somewhat deceiving; they lead readers to believe that the poems are more similar than they actually are. “To Autumn” was written on September 19, 1819, but was not published until the following year ("To Autumn - Keats"). Hopkins’ poem, “Spring,”…

A native of London, England, John Keats was born on October 31, 1795 and devoted his life to poetry marked by his bright use of imagery, sensuous appeal and philosophical ideas. Although his life and writing career of less than six years was very short-lived, his poetic achievements are extraordinary. Keats believed that reality is determined by knowledge. Therefore, most of his poems stem from internal conflicts. Several of his great works including “Ode to a Nightingale” and “Ode on a Grecian…

A misunderstood talent in life. John Keats did not have a perfect life. His short life contained abundant misery until he died. From the death of his parents, leaving his career of an apothecary-surgeon in order to pursue poetry, to caring for his dying brother, and falling in love. When he caught tuberculosis in July of 1820 many of the sonnets he wrote contained his recognition of mortality. The sonnet “On Seeing the Elgin Marbles” tells the reader how John Keats struggles with mortality and…

can be verified through their ideals of celebrating the power of nature and individualism linked as one. John Keats, a revolutionist of his time, strays from the conventional belief that a romanticist must completely give into the ideals of unity between nature and individualism. Instead, Keats sees nature and the communal as a force to combat his frequent thoughts of loneliness and sadness. Keats excels at describing the agony that he deals with on a daily basis, yet, considering all odds, he…

John Keats: Romantic Legend John Keats is regarded today as one of the most famous poets during the romantic age. He lived an unfortunately brief life of 25 years and received a great amount of criticism during it. His poetry was usually very sensual and his descriptive writing gave many readers strong vivid images to imagine. Keats’s influence mostly came from his school’s headmaster, John Clarke. Clarke became a father figure to John, believing in his academic potential and pushing him to…

People search and hope to find their soul mate. In today’s world, loving one individual for the rest of your life is the ultimate goal. Love is not easy and it is never certain. In his romantic poem “Bright Star, would I were stedfast as thou art,” John Keats admires the steadfastness of the star, and how the speaker wishes he could be in the same situation as the star with his love. On the contrary, Robert Frost, in his poem “Choose Something Like a Star,” admires the star for its uncertain…

Fear; A strong emotions usually caused by worrying about something bad about to take place. Everyone faces fear, some are mild as some very strong. For John Keats, I would categorize his fear as being very strong. Strong enough to write a poem, which, later became one of the richest poems ever written. Looking at his life from childhood, one would wonder, how you could go on without having fear of death. "When I Have Fears," this is a Shakespearean style sonnet with its rhyme scheme, with…

lawyers when all they wanted to do was write poetry.John Keats was an apothecary, but he never practiced his profession, deciding he wanted to write poetry instead. He was a remarkable writer who knew his life was short lived. His poem “When I Have Fears that I May Cease to be”, was a poem he wrote knowing he had fallen ill. John Keats states “And feel that I may…