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John Keats' Poems, 2005.
This paper discusses the thematic and stylistic differences between John Keats' poems "Hyperion" and "The Fall of Hyperion".
1,300 words (approx. 5.2 pages), 2 sources, MLA, £ 30.95
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This paper explains that, whether or not it is a fragment, "The Fall of Hyperion" is somewhat a necessary component, to the precursor "Hyperion", which completes the poet's thoughts concerning history, language, art, poetry and mankind. The author points out that, in a sense, "Hyperion" and "The Fall of Hyperion" represent the life of John Keats, the poet; while the theme is still the same, the poet is definitely different. The paper stresses that "Hyperion" and "The Fall of Hyperion" remain faithful to the romantic movement that John Keats helped establish; however, they move in almost different directions--a talent Keats mastered with his text. Several quotations.
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"Later, as the poet describes Apollo, we see less of a fully described man and more of a creature that allows the poet to expand his imaginative technique. In short, his character adds to the sensuality we are experiencing. An example of this style can be seen when the poet writes, "Beside the osiers of a rivulet,/Full ankle-deep in lilies of the vale" (III.33-5). These images enhance the style and theme of "Hyperion," which is one that is grand, beautiful, and hopeful. Hope for attaining truth and beauty do come with a price, however."
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John Keats, 2002.
A review of two articles which discuss John Keats: "John Keats and Symbolism" by Jeffrey and "The Stylistic development of Keats" by Walter Jackson Bate.
1,650 words (approx. 6.6 pages), 2 sources, £ 42.95
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This paper critically analyzes 2 articles written on his style and imagery and contends that his writing was one of the most stylistic of his era and commended the Romantic poets of his time.
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John Keats And His Poetry, 2008.
An analysis of the life and most famous poems of John Keats.
3,043 words (approx. 12.2 pages), 15 sources, MLA, £ 61.95
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This paper discusses the life and poetry of John Keats. It describes a background of his family and his short life. The paper analyzes some of his famous works, including "On First Looking into Chapman's Homer," "Ode to a Nightingale" and "Ode on a Grecian Urn." The paper discusses why, in his short life, Keats was placed among the great English poets. It also provides an appendix of the three poems it discusses.
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"His poem becomes a vehicle to relate the various scenes around the urn that the artist was trying to relate. He tells of lover and his beloved, the piper, the procession taking the bull to a sacrifice. These scenes are sufficiently ambiguous that Keats must pose his many questions in the first and fourth stanzas. Because the urn cannot answer in specifics, these questions pass to the reader/viewer, who is left to provide his own answers. Keats, knowing that he cannot know these details, poses his own interpretations for the stories the urn reveals. (Percarmona)"
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The Poetry of John Keats, 2002.
This paper looks at three poems by John Keats: "When I Have Fears", "La Belle Dame Sans Merci" and "The Human Season", critiquing them according to the teachings of Helen Vendler.
1,068 words (approx. 4.3 pages), 2 sources, MLA, £ 25.95
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According to Vendler, there are several aspects one should look at when critiquing poetry. This paper studies a few of these methods, applying them to the chosen poems of Keats. The critical aspects are meaning, rhythm, rhyme, structure and images.
Table of Contents:
A Short History
Brief Technical Study
Meaning
Rhythm
Rhyme
Structure
Images
The Style of Keats
Conclusions
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"It is important to be able to paraphrase the poem to understand the meaning therein. In When I have fears, Keats is saying, "When I am frightened that I might die before I'm finished writing, or before I can experience love, I feel utterly alone." The Human Seasons is a comparison of the seasons of nature to that of a man's life. Spring is the spryness of youth, Summer is maturity of young adulthood, Autumn is reflection of middle age and Winter is old age and death. La Belle Dame Sans Merci is a story of how a knight was enthralled by a beautiful woman. He loved her, but she toyed with him and in the end, abandoned him."
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John Keats, 2005.
This paper discusses John Keats, considered to be one of the most important of the Romantic poets, especially his poem "Ode on a Grecian Urn".
1,630 words (approx. 6.5 pages), 6 sources, MLA, £ 36.95
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This paper explains that one of the central aspects of the Romantic poets, particularly John Keats, is the belief in the supreme power of the imagination, which is important not only to "Ode on a Grecian Urn" but also to all of his work. The author points out that "Ode on a Grecian Urn" represents and emphasizes a sense of both permanency, the mutability and the changing nature of ordinary human life and the inevitable march towards certain death. The paper relates that the last two lines of the poem are famous in their succinct summation of the entire meaning of the poem: All we know or need to know, they suggest, is the beauty of art. Many quotations.
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"The "Urn" became a symbol of eternity and an ideal reality, which "teases us" and creates an inner tension as we compare the ideal world of the "Urn" to the pain and suffering of ordinary life. The "Urn" then becomes a "Cold Pastoral"; an object that awakens us sharply to the tragedy of our own mortality. The third stanza emphasizes the happiness and joy in the never-ending activity of the figures on the "Urn". The poem emphasizes the main theme again in that the "Urn" figures act as a direct comparison to the change and mutability of ordinary life."
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John Keats' "On First Looking into Chapman's Homer", 2008.
Analyzes John Keats' sonnet "On First Looking into Chapman's Homer".
1,275 words (approx. 5.1 pages), 0 sources, £ 30.95
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This paper describes the meaning and construction of John Keats' sonnet "On First Looking into Chapman's Homer" and explains that it was written as an immediate response to the revelation experienced by Keats on first reading George Chapman's classic translation of Homer's epic the "Odyssey". The paper further relates that Keats' poem expresses his excitement about what he has just discovered in reading Chapman's work, which leads him to want to make more discoveries about himself and about the world, especially the world of ancient times.
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"As is the case with the sonnet form, this sonnet is in fourteen lines. The rhyme scheme may vary in different types of sonnet, and Keats her uses a scheme of ABBA ABBA CDCDCD. The Shakespearian sonnet would normally end with a couplet, but Keats does not do that, effectively using two quatrains followed by a six-line conclusion. The meter for the sonnet is iambic pentameter, with variations that emphasize words and thoughts. for instance, line 10 is ... a line that is hard to read in strict iambic pentameter and that begins with a trochee, an accented followed by an unaccented syllable, followed by a spondee, with two accented syllables."
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John Keats and Matthew Arnold, 2002.
Compares how John Keats and Matthew Arnold viewed their roles as poets in society.
3,082 words (approx. 12.3 pages), 8 sources, MLA, £ 62.95
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Poets' conceptions of their roles in society can be fairly consistent for long periods of time or may change rapidly in a decade or two. The difference between the idea of a poet's function as conceived by the Romantic era and the Victorian period provides an example of significant change. The paper shows that not all the supposed members of any school of poetry share every aspect of the predominant theory of poetry in their generation. It shows that neither John Keats (1795-1821) nor Matthew Arnold (1822-88) is entirely typical of his era. But, especially because Arnold reacted against Keats--among others--in specific, articulated ways, a comparison of their ideas of their role as poets in this paper demonstrates how such changes take place and the effect they have on the poetry that is written.
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"The expression of his experience in the poems relied, therefore, on the intelligent apprehension of the beautiful but necessarily avoided the interference occasioned by philosophical rigor or conventional belief systems. Rather than acting as a scientist who catalogues experience or an overt expressionist who presents her/his feelings in all their immediacy and as an end in themselves, Keats valued the ability to go as deeply as possible into feeling and then to communicate and transform the experience with words that, rather than refining and limiting the experience, conveyed an accurate sense of the ambiguity as well as the nature of the experience. He desired, in other words, a meaningful description of what was conventionally indescribable while avoiding a vocabulary or style that would constrain the sense of feeling he wished to express. It was, in short, a poetry of sensation. His most famous formulation of this aspect of his poetic practice came in a letter written to his friend Benjamin Bailey in 1817."
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John Keatings and "The Dead Poet's Society", 2005.
An analysis of the main character in the film "The Dead Poet's Society" and his role as an educator.
1,536 words (approx. 6.1 pages), 1 source, MLA, £ 34.95
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This paper analyzes the character of John Keatings in the film "The Dead Poet's Society" and considers where Keatings and the prep school he teaches at fit in, in the philosophies of education. The paper contrasts Keatings' philosophy on education with that of the school philosophy and concludes that Keatings' philosophy is by far the superior of the two.
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"John Locke wrote of education, "Virtue is harder to be got than knowledge of the world; and, if lost in a young man, is seldom recovered." John Keatings believes in this Lockian principle, but only to a certain degree. In his classroom, Keatings stressed virtue: He taught his students how to live and feel and treat one another as much as he taught them to classics. In fact, he deliberately skips the theoretical works in the class - even having his students dramatically rip out the pages of a methodical, unfeeling treatise on how to understand and appreciate poetry - in favor of poetry that makes his students feel and interact with one another."
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Visionary Moments in the Poems of the Romantics, 2005.
A comparative analysis of selected poems by Romantic poets William Wordsworth, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, and John Keats.
967 words (approx. 3.9 pages), 0 sources, MLA, £ 23.95
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This paper examines how the Romantic poets, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, William Wordsworth, and John Keats all used poetry to chronicle visionary moments, or moments of clarity inspired by dreams or by nature, which reveal truths that would remain hidden in everyday life. It looks at how illustrations of such experiences can be seen in much of these poets' work, but is especially notable in Wordsworth's "Strange Fits of Passion Have I Known," Coleridge's "The Rime of the Ancient Mariner," and Keats's "On First Looking into Chapman's Homer."
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"While "Strange fits of passion have I known," with its pseudo-supernatural subject of a full moon foretelling ominous events, arguably contains a hint of the paranormal; Coleridge's "Rime of the Ancient Mariner" is fairly drenched with matters of the supernatural, chronicling a voyage fraught with spiritual intervention of all types. Let us concern ourselves, however, with the first spirit that comes to visit the doomed ship's crew; which arrives in the form of an albatross. Arriving with a wind propelling them north after a storm sends the ship southward, the crew welcomes the sight of this bird as a benevolent spirit, which then continues to follow the ship."
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Coleridge and Keats, 2002.
A comparison of their poems - John Keats's poem, "On First Looking into Chapman's Homer" with Samuel T. Coleridge's poem, "The Rime of the Ancient Mariner."
650 words (approx. 2.6 pages), 2 sources, £ 18.95
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This paper compares and contrasts John Keats's poem, "On First Looking into Chapman's Homer" with Samuel T. Coleridge's poem, "The Rime of the Ancient Mariner." The author focuses on detailed close reading of the poems and detailed commentary.
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Keats and The Romantic Renunciation of History, 2006.
An analysis of the "perfection" in John Keats' poem "To Autumn" and its lack of references to historical events.
1,839 words (approx. 7.4 pages), 5 sources, MLA, £ 40.95
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This paper presents a thorough analysis of Keats' poem "To Autumn", all the while keeping in mind the poet's standpoint regarding historical issues of his time. The author attempts to establish and set apart the means by which the poem's perfection is achieved, whilst paying attention to the importance of historical and social events to Keats' work, and to the reason for their supposed absence from this poem.
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""To Autumn" opens by addressing Autumn directly, reflecting over the season's relationship with the sun and its ability to breathe life into nature. Overall, the first stanza is shrouded in stillness; it is, at first sight, motionless, somewhat like a painting, devoted only to portraying as faithfully as possible the speaker's impression of nature. But there seems to be a kind of movement within this silence: the flowers gradually blossom, and, through its friendship with the sun, Autumn encourages the fruits to finally ripen. In other words, this scene, on closer examination, proves to be more dynamic than motionless. By enveloping the movement in silence, the speaker illustrates the hidden beauty of nature (which is often acknowledged only on closer examination), thus managing to bring forth the readers' sympathy and to include them in his excitement."
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?La Belle Dame Sans Merci?, 2006.
Analyzes this work by John Keats and compares it to his other poem, "Why Did I Laugh Tonight? No Voice Will Tell".
2,442 words (approx. 9.8 pages), 0 sources, £ 51.95
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Both "La Belle Dame Sans Merci" and "Why Did I Laugh Tonight? No Voice Will Tell "were written during the time known as Romanticism. This paper examines the era in which the poems were penned and then analyzes each of them. The paper concludes that, as a poet, John Keats did not always adhere to the rules of Romanticism and his writings paved the way for the next generation of poets to express their opinions.
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"The poem Why Did I Laugh seems to be a variation on romanticism, analyzing the dark side of life and despair. John Keats succeeded in expressing his heart in both of these poems; the reader is left with some emotion after reading them. In La Belle Dame, the reader is left feeling pity and sadness for the poet. He was betrayed and left to perish. However, there is hope. Although it is autumn, there is a new season coming. After reading Why Did I Laugh?, the reader wonders about death, feeling the heaviness of the poet's heart, worrying about his struggle with verse, fame and beauty."
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Keats?s ?Lamia? and Coleridge?s ?Christabel?, 2004.
This paper discusses the characteristics of each female and their use of their power to achieve their ultimate goal in John Keats?s poem, ?Lamia? and Samuel Coleridge?s ?Christabel?.
2,040 words (approx. 8.2 pages), 8 sources, MLA, £ 44.95
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This paper relates that myth, mystery, and passion work together to create powerful creatures of deception in John Keats?s poem, ?Lamia? and Samuel Coleridge?s ?Christabel?. The author points out that each poem is an allegory that depicts females possessing disdainful qualities to illustrate the power of women. The paper concludes that, by developing characters with mythological powers and human emotion, the poets create powerful creatures of deception.
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"James Boulger suggests there is a ?semi-divine force? operating in the world of myth symbolism in Lamia and in these experiences the poet ?projects on the highest imaginative level man?s dream of permanence for his more hopeful psychological states of being? (Boulger 244) This coarse physical way is practiced by the ordinary sensual breed, not by the poet or his hero. Keats employs symbols taken from the world of nature, mythology, love, and art in Lamia. (255) ?Love is the major focus for the major incidents in the poem, and these incidents are ordered and made meaningful by the mythological structure? (248). Lycius needed human love whereas Lamia needed a love of a divine kind. Lycius could never rise to the level of divine love between immortals. (248) "
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Keats? ?Bright Star!?, 2005.
Examines structure, figurative comparison and tone in John Keats' sonnet "Bright Star!"
711 words (approx. 2.8 pages), 1 source, MLA, £ 17.95
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In John Keats' "Bright Star," the theme conveyed is that love is always in conflict with time, but love inevitably always wins. This paper examines how the theme is best conveyed through the sonnet's structure and logical pattern, its figurative comparisons-such as similes, metaphors and imagery-and its differing tones.
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"The final and most powerful method Keats uses to show the theme of the sonnet is through the contrasting tones. The first tone Keats uses is a negative tone used to give the star, which represents time, cold distant attributes. Although he describes the star as being "steadfast," he quickly mentions its "lone splendor" as it hangs "aloft in the night." This shows the star's re-moteness from earth and human feeling. As the star is said to be "watching, with eternal lids apart," it implies that the star is just watching and not actually participating in life. The star can only be "gazing," and not living or acting."
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