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Keats John Keats in His
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As is the case with the sonnet fom, this sonnet is in fouteen lines. The hyme scheme may vay in diffeent tyes of sonnet, and Keats he uses a scheme of ABBA CDCDCD. The Shakespeaian sonnet would nomally end with a couplet, but Keats does not do that, effectively using two quatains followed by a six-line conclusion. The mete fo the sonnet is iambic pentamete, with vaiations that emphasize wods and thoughts. Fo instance, line 10 is "When a new planet swims into his ken," a line that is had to ead in stict iambic pentamete and that begins with a tochee, an accented followed by an unaccented syllable, followed by a spondee, with two accented syllables. Lines 9 and 10 ae thought to efe to the discovey of a new planet by Heschel, which Keats knew about at the time. Line 14 also begins with a tochee, emphasizing the….

John Keats the Ballad La
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" The final line of the ballad, "nd no birds sing" reinforces the idea of loneliness and emptiness, and creates an invisible link with the beginning of the poem, more precisely the first stanza which ends with the same line.
t a closer reading, one notices that the roles of the knight and the lady change throughout the following stanzas, with each of them being successively dominant over the other. In stanzas IV-VI, the first two lines focus on the knight who is clearly in control -- "I met," "I made," "I set her" -- the use of the first person pronoun is a clear indication as far as the power relations in the poem, whereas lines 3 and 4 refer to the actions of the lady. Moreover, stanza VII is completely devoted to her with verbs such as "she found" and "she said." The following stanza grants the lady the….

John Keats
The most widely respected source for the history of the English language, the Oxford English Dictionary, records as early as Chaucer in the fourteenth century a meaning for the word "star" used (as the OED puts it) "with reference to the pagan belief that the souls of illustrious persons after death appear as new stars in the heavens." This metaphor seemingly takes a long time to devolve to the contemporary usage which seemingly alludes to this classical tradition: the OED dates the earliest recorded usage of "star" to mean "a person of brilliant reputation or talents…one who is distinguished in some branch of art, industry, science, etc." To the 1820s (offering examples from 1824 and 1829). It is worth noting these derive just immediately after the astonishingly young death of poet John Keats in February of 1821. Keats, a working-class boy from London who began training as a….

poety of John Keats inspies eades because of thei lyicism, accessibility, and imagey. Many of Keats' poems focus on beauty as subject and theme, fo beauty is a souce of inspiation. Flowes and othe natual objects like bids, tees, and supenatual ceatues appea fequently in the woks of John Keats to convey the theme of beauty. As one of the theads tying Keats' poems togethe, the theme of beauty emeges in seveal of his moe famous woks, including "Ode to a Nightingale," "Ode on a Gecian Un," and "Ode on Melancholy." Beauty is teated as a subject wothy of spiitual discussion, and Keats fequently makes mythological and esoteic efeences in his poems. Keats teats beauty as one of the mysteies of life, which he seeks to undestand though his veses. The beauty of natue is one way in which Keats can access and compehend the tue meaning of beauty.….

John Keats' to Autumn
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John Keats and Melancholic Delight:
To Autumn

To Autumn by John Keats is a testimonial of the omantic Era. The poem is filled with the importance of individual fulfillment at the behest of societal decline. The stoic nature of Keats's To Autumn is viewed by most as despairingly melancholic. However, when looking for hope one finds an eternal hopefulness amongst his opining. Autumn is used to symbolize the dichotomy in existence of life and death happening at once and forever. Keats sees in autumn the irony of life, and the contrast of humanity to the individual.

A general motif of the omantic era became the inevitable decline of humanity. Philosophers and writers alike viewed industrialism as an evil driving innocence further from the reach of the collective. In short, the precipitous pace of history was leaving innocence in its wake. More over, tramping it along the way. "Society embodied forces opposed to individual….

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John Keats, Ode to Autumn 1819 (222)

To Autumn has sparingly figured in criticisms of Keats's poetry, because when compared with other odes of 1819, Ode to Autumn appears not to provide a strong basis for exposition or discussion purposes. Ode to Autumn's three stanzas mark out the seasons' progress. In stanza one, Autumn's role as the harbinger of the fruits for the season is distinguished. In stanza two, Autumn is personified specifically as a figure taking her rest after the harvest toil. Stanza three monitors the last part of the season as seen in the countryside receding and making way for the early part of the winter season. The seasonal change processes as typified in these three stages is carried out with a delicate movement that almost escapes notice.

The parts of Autumn showcased in the first stanza and the third stanza -richness and fruitfulness, which is in contrast to….

Keats Ode on a Grecian
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All breathing human passion far above,

That leaves a heart high-sorrowful and cloy'd, burning forehead, and a parching tongue.

A lines 28-30)

The final lines of the Ode encapsulate the tension and conflict of the poem in a vision of art as the only means of resolving the disparity between the ideal and the real.

When old age shall this generation waste,

Thou shalt remain, in midst of other woe

Than ours, a friend to man, to whom thou say'st,

eauty is truth, truth beauty, -- that is all

Ye know on earth, and all ye need to know." lines 46-50)

The last two lines of the poem lines 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. This is the only true reality for the Romantic port and the only way that we have to deal wit the despair and….

However, in line with the Paz prompt at the outset of this discussion, Keats merely uses this tradition as a bridge on which to extend toward motivation on behalf of the evolving form. The subject matter is where this work takes a step toward modernity. The manner in which Keats describes the reality of dying is startling for its time primarily because it lacks religiosity. In describing death, the poet tells, "where youth grows pale, and spectre-thin, and dies; / here but to think is to be full of sorrow / and leaden-eyed despairs; / here beauty cannot keep her lustrous eyes, / or new Love pine at them beyond to-morrow."
The notion of discussing death from a decidedly humanistic rather than spiritual perspective is more daring and innovative than perhaps we are won't to give credit for. It is remarkable that the poet would invert a steadfastly traditional form….

Keats' to Autumn
An Analysis of Keats' "To Autumn"

John Keats' "To Autumn" is a kind of "companion piece" to another English poem, "Ode to Evening," by illiam Collins -- a poem very much in the mind of Keats when he seat to work on "Autumn." Inspired by the English countryside, Keats, like illiams, evokes nature's reflection of the poet's own emergence from youthfulness to adulthood. Composed only two years before his death, there is already in this work a sense of the imminent end awaiting the young poet -- who is even still at his most fruitful. "To Autumn" carries with it the dichotomous theme of life in its fullness, haunted by "mists" and mellowness and a creeping kind of melancholy that portends the harvest. This paper will analyze Keats' "To Autumn" and show how the poet uses imagery, personification, and structure to illuminate and convey the fullness of summer's "ripeness….

Intellect is just an instrument through which the Soul emerges and develops: "Do you not see how necessary a World of Pains and troubles is to school an Intelligence and make it a Soul?" Meanwhile, Tennyson, in his poem "In memoriam," centered on the importance of humility as well, although he did not equate with Intellect the importance of the Spirit or Soul. For Tennyson, intellect is nothing without humility and faith in God, a similar condition expressed in Keats' discourse: "We have but faith: we cannot know; for knowledge is of things we see and yet we trust it comes from thee..." Rossetti shared Tennyson's humble and faithful belief in God, although, as illustrated in the poem "A Better Resurrection," she proved herself incapable of considering herself as worthy of God's grace and forgiveness. Nevertheless, like Tennyson, the poem was created in honor of God and the inherent….

Keats and Hemingway
Although the literary texture John Keats' poem "La Belle Dame Sans Merci" and Ernest Hemingway's "A Very Short Story," have profoundly different tones, given that one was written during the Romantic period of the 19th century in England, and the other during the modernist period of 20th century American literature, both works have similar tales and attitudes towards love -- a military man seeks beauty and solace in the arms of a woman. Yet the man's love comes to naught because of a woman's faithlessness.

The Keats has a distinctly 'unreal' or crafted poetic tone, in contrast to the Hemingway attempt to have the quality of ordinary speech and life. Keats' poem is a ballad in the modern style. Hemingway's reads almost like a newspaper story in its quiet, factual description of its characters. Keats' poem is about a fairy queen, rather than an attempt at capturing reality,….

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"I don't recall having sold the house," Ned said, "and the girls are at home."

(Cheever)

In the narration Ned continues on his journey home. Once he is home it is revealed that his house is indeed empty and his wife and daughters are gone. This is just one example of the conflict that exist in this narration between was is reality and what is illusion.

In addition to this aspect of conflict in The Swimmer, there is also a great deal of conflict associated with Ned's ability to swim across the county. This conflict exist because Ned also drank strong alcoholic beverages throughout his journey. It would have been next to impossible for him to swim after he had consumed just a few of these drinks. This is an obvious conflict that would have hindered his journey but the author presents it as fact and not fiction.

The presence of….

After generating a huge number of random solutions to a given problem, the invention machine determines how effective each solution is, then discards most solutions that are not successful and begins making random alterations to others, and combining aspects of the most effective solutions to create a new generation of solutions. This process continues until an optimal solution is reached (meaning all other solutions modeled by the computer perform less efficiently or successful): "Over and over, bits of computer code are, essentially, procreating," mirroring "Darwinian evolution, the process of natural selection" (Keats, 1). The computer does not tackle problems in exactly the same way as humans in every situation, though trial and error are parts of many scientific discoveries and engineering projects. But though its method is limited to only one basic system, it performs this much faster than any human brain.
hen both Koza and Keats refer to the….

In other words, by crying out to heaven, and speaking to the bird in the language of emotions and mythology, the Nightingale comes to speak for the poet's own heart and poetic persona, as the poet himself is heard speaking during the poem in open-mouthed cries that stress vowels rather than sharper consonant sounds. (Lancashire, 2002)
In this ode, Keats always focuses on immediate, concrete sensations rather than upon clever wordplay. The driving sense of the poem is its expression of the poetic emotions, "from which the reader can draw a conclusion" about the poet's "ambivalent response," to the joy and relief he feels at the sight of bird that reminds him of his own perceived inner ugliness. (Melani, 2002) In stanza four, this sense of the concrete comes to the forefront as the poet Keats moves from calling to heaven then to suddenly crying out to the bird itself.….

Ode on a Grecian Urn" by John Keats; "The Convergence of the Twain" by Thomas Hardy; and "Fern Hill" by Dylan Thomas. Specifically, it will identify the common theme in these three poems, which is time. Time stops in all three poems for various reasons, and adds to the impact of each poem in a special way.
COMMON THEME

In "Ode on a Grecian Urn," Keats is celebrating the past, stopped in time for a moment on an ancient Grecian urn. Time stands still on the urn, and all the people depicted on it are caught in a fleeting moment of time. Nothing around them can ever change, from the trees, to their love, to their age. "Thy song, nor ever can those trees be bare; / Bold Lover, never, never canst thou kiss, / Though winning near the goal yet, do not grieve; / She cannot fade, though thou hast….

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Keats John Keats in His

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As is the case with the sonnet fom, this sonnet is in fouteen lines. The hyme scheme may vay in diffeent tyes of sonnet, and Keats he uses a…

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John Keats the Ballad La

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" The final line of the ballad, "nd no birds sing" reinforces the idea of loneliness and emptiness, and creates an invisible link with the beginning of the poem,…

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John Keats the Most Widely Respected Source

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John Keats The most widely respected source for the history of the English language, the Oxford English Dictionary, records as early as Chaucer in the fourteenth century a meaning…

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Poetry of John Keats Inspires Readers Because

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poety of John Keats inspies eades because of thei lyicism, accessibility, and imagey. Many of Keats' poems focus on beauty as subject and theme, fo beauty is a…

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John Keats' to Autumn

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John Keats and Melancholic Delight: To Autumn To Autumn by John Keats is a testimonial of the omantic Era. The poem is filled with the importance of individual fulfillment at the…

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Analyzing John Keats Ode to Autumn 1819 222

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Autumn John Keats, Ode to Autumn 1819 (222) To Autumn has sparingly figured in criticisms of Keats's poetry, because when compared with other odes of 1819, Ode to Autumn appears…

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Keats Ode on a Grecian

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All breathing human passion far above, That leaves a heart high-sorrowful and cloy'd, burning forehead, and a parching tongue. A lines 28-30) The final lines of the Ode encapsulate the tension and…

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Keats Dickinson Keats and Eliot

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However, in line with the Paz prompt at the outset of this discussion, Keats merely uses this tradition as a bridge on which to extend toward motivation on…

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Keats' to Autumn an Analysis of Keats'

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Keats' to Autumn An Analysis of Keats' "To Autumn" John Keats' "To Autumn" is a kind of "companion piece" to another English poem, "Ode to Evening," by illiam Collins -- a…

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Keats Tennyson & Rossetti Float

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Intellect is just an instrument through which the Soul emerges and develops: "Do you not see how necessary a World of Pains and troubles is to school an…

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Keats and Hemingway Although the Literary Texture

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Keats and Hemingway Although the literary texture John Keats' poem "La Belle Dame Sans Merci" and Ernest Hemingway's "A Very Short Story," have profoundly different tones, given that one…

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John Cheever Is Perhaps One

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John Koza's Invention Machine the

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After generating a huge number of random solutions to a given problem, the invention machine determines how effective each solution is, then discards most solutions that are not…

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Sounds of Keats the Sounds

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In other words, by crying out to heaven, and speaking to the bird in the language of emotions and mythology, the Nightingale comes to speak for the poet's…

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Ode on a Grecian Urn by John

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Ode on a Grecian Urn" by John Keats; "The Convergence of the Twain" by Thomas Hardy; and "Fern Hill" by Dylan Thomas. Specifically, it will identify the common…

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