Essays on Literary Genres

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Literary Analysis of John Keats' Poems

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Keats’s preoccupation with the inescapable procession of time and mutability is evident in all three poems: “Ode to a Nightingale,” the ode “To Autumn,” and the sonnet, “Bright Star, Would I Were as Steadfast as Thou Art.” In his “Ode to a Nightingale,” the bird’s...

John Keats Ode

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The Dark Vision of Love in John Keats' La Belle Dame Sans Merci

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Keats is able to portray love in many different lights throughout the poem by linking ideas and meanings, like symbolism. His different uses of structure within the poem, come considered unusual for a ballad, also have connotations towards how love affects the main character. Unlike...

John Keats Poetry

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Association with The Supernatural Activities and Spiritualists

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Keats’ exploration of the nature of love is enhanced through his utilisation of the imagination and the overtly supernatural settings which he creates. Both Lamia, which relates the mystical story of a beautiful serpent who strikes a deal with Hermes in order to restore herself...

Poetry

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Literary Analysis of John Keats's The Eve of St. Agnes

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“The Eve of St. Agnes” tells the fantastic story of a bewitching night when two lovers consummate their relationship and elope. It takes place on the Eve of St. Agnes, a night when “young virgins have visions of delight,” giving the action of the poem...

John Keats Poetry

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Intricate Structure and Rhythm to Bring Day and The Season

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John Keats is known for his vibrant use of imagery in his poetry. At least twenty paintings have been rendered as a result of his expressive imagery. In Ode to a Nightingale, he uses synesthetic imagery in the beginning by combining senses normally experienced separately...

Poetry

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The Elegance and Beauty of The Autumn Season and Keats’ Love Poem to It

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Autumn is one of the most charming seasons due to a variety of reasons. People all over the world choose it as their favorite time of the year because of its mildness, quiet beauty, golden leaves, and grey sky, as well as exciting holidays, such...

Poetry

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The Concept of "Negative Capability" in John Keats's Poetry

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In an 1817 letter to his brothers, George and Thomas, John Keats describes a manner of thought that he calls “negative capability.” According to Keats, this is “when man is capable of being in uncertainties, Mysteries, doubts without any irritable reaching after fact and reason.”...

John Keats Poetry

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Two Types of Art in John Keats' Poem Ode on a Grecian Urn

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While the countless paradoxes in John Keats’s Poem “Ode on a Grecian Urn” could lead one to envision a battle between Classical and Romantic art, Keats tries to reconcile the two types of art through the form and theme of his poem. Made-to-order essay as...

Poetry

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Literary Analysis of John Keats' Letters

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After his death at the tender age of twenty-five, English poet John Keats left behind a legacy of hundreds of letters in addition to his published poems. These letters to family and friends feature a few common recipients, including his brothers Tom and George, his...

John Keats Poetry

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La Belle Dame Sans Merci: Examination and Evaluating The Work Done

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The cursory reading of this poem is that it is merely a story of a knight bewitched by beauty, who becomes abject slave to a fairy woman, and who falls asleep, waking up alone and dying on a hillside in the meadow. However it could...

Poetry

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Having Positive Thoughts in Love

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In “Ode to a Nightingale,” John Keats uses nature and a nightingale as figures for an optimistic view on mortality, and on the speaker’s life specifically. Throughout the poem, the nightingale itself is an figure for the beautiful and cyclical nature of life. The natural...

Poetry

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Fear of Death and Frustration in The Works of John Keats and H.w. Longfellow

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Introduction Throughout the analysis of the two pieces, “When I have Fears,” and “Mezzo Cammin” there emerges a similar theme, and use of language to portray it. The former poem was written by John Keats in 1818, just several years before his death. It expresses...

John Keats Poetry

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Relation and Contrasting Viewpoints of Life

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In John Keats’ “Ode to a Nightingale,” a despairing speaker overhears a nightingale in the depths of a far away forest. The speaker yearns to leave behind his physical world and join the bird in its metaphysical world. The nightingale sings of a world where...

Poetry

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Literary Analysis of John Keats' Ode "To Autumn"

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Keats’ ode ‘To Autumn’ deals predominantly with the passage of time, described within the imagery of the season of Autumn. The ode is a celebration of change, involving life, growth and death. Keats makes use of many literary and textual tools, which will be detailed...

Poetry

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Indolence as Productivity Deconstruction: Foucault and Paradox in Keatss Negative Capability

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Michel Foucault, in his seminal essay, What Is An Author?, considers the relationship between author, text, and reader: “…the quibbling and confrontations that a writer generates between himself and his text cancel out the signs of his particular individuality.”(Foucault, 1477) Forms of discourse, and the...

Poetry

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Ironic Tragedy Evident in 'Lamia'

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As a Romantic, Keats maintained a tragic concern with the importance of dramatic irony – or, as noted by Schlegel, the ‘secret irony’ in which the audience is aware of the protagonist’s situation and his own ignorance of it. In ‘Lamia’, this notion is evident...

Tragedy

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Nature and Emotions Portrayed in 'To Autumn'

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Much of the literary work that sprung out of the Romantic period centered around images of nature and the strong emotions that these evoked; the works of John Keats and of Percy Bysshe Shelley are no exception. Both written in 1819 and published in 1820,...

Poetry

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The Theme of Love in John Keats' Poems

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John Keats’ poems “When I Have Fears” and “Bright Star” are remarkably similar, yet drastically different at the same time. The Shakespearean sonnets share rhyme scheme as well as subject matter, yet deal with different facets of the same topic. Each describes love as something...

John Keats Poetry

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Queer Nature Achieved in 'Jules and Jim'

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Perhaps the most iconic scene in Francois Truffaut’s Jules and Jim (1962) begins at 11:38. When Jules (Oskar Werner) and Jim (Henri Serre) and going to meet Catherine (Jeanne Moreau) to spend the evening together, and Catherine excites the scene by sporting a costume of...

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