Resultado de búsqueda
Selected Short Poems by John Keats. Bright Star; Happy is England; Ode to A Nightingale; Ode on a Grecian Urn; On Fame; Song of An Indian Maid; Woman!
20 de mar. de 2017 · 1. ‘ Ode to Psyche ’. Instead of pines shall murmur in the wind …. The earliest of Keats’s 1819 odes, ‘Ode to Psyche’ is about the Greek embodiment of the soul and mind, Psyche. Keats declares that he will be Psyche’s ‘priest’ and build a temple to her in his mind.
- “Fancy”
- “Ode on A Grecian Urn”
- “To Lord Byron”
- “La Belle Dame Sans Merci”
- Ode on Melancholy
- Ode to A Nightingale
- “To Sleep”
- “On Seeing The Elgin Marbles”
- “To Autumn”
- “Bright Star, Would I Were Stedfast as Thou Art”
Inspired by the garden at Wentworth Place, this poem makes the list because it affords us a window into Keats’ creative process. It’s no secret that his imagination elevates the everyday and produce what can be described as escapist poetry. The richness of the language showcases the classic Romanticism found in much of Keats’ work, with the imagery...
Of the several great odes Keats wrote in 1819, this is perhaps his most philosophical. It discusses the link between art and humanity (as shown by the creation of the urn), and how essential true beauty is to man. Unlike the more despondent “Ode on Melancholy” or “Ode to a Nightingale”, this poem leaves us with a small thrill of optimism: the figur...
Though we have already compiled a list of the 10 Greatest Sonnets Concerning Other Poets, this poetic message from poet to poet has to be included in Keats’ best compositions. This poem was in fact written while Keats was just nineteen, and had not yet met Byron. Here Keats praises what would later become a common feature of his own work – the para...
It will perhaps be bemoaned that one of Keats’ most famous poems merits such a modest place on the list (though with so many to choose from such decisions will never be easy); after all, “La Belle Dame Sans Merci” is an iconic poetic figure, plucked from Arthurian legend and immortalised in Keats’ sparse, melodic verse. The desolate setting and ble...
Brimming with dazzlingly vibrant imagery, this poem manages to describe death only by encompassing the many beauties made up of life and the natural world. As a piece of contradictions, it isn’t necessarily simple to decide whether this ode is optimistic, pessimistic, or perhaps a mixture of the two. Either way, the careful crafting and sheer volum...
Yet another ode composed in Keats’ annus mirabilis of 1819, this poem again gives us an insight into his perception of creativity and composition. The suggestion of magic and potion-making springs forth, with abstract ingredients like ‘a beaker full of the warm South’. The nightingale as both creature and symbol is unattainable, leading us as the r...
As much a hymn as anything else, this poem concerns a longing to escape sadness in sleep. For Keats, sleep becomes a snapshot of death, which he approaches with conflicting fear and desire. Is it a plea to God for a speedy death, or a statement of frustration that only God can control Keats’ life? The complex philosophical idea, rendered so beautif...
Poets responding to objects of great beauty is a fairly common trope – think Shelley’s “Ozymandias” or Lazarus’s “New Colossus”—but there’s something about this one that makes it more powerful than many rival ekphrastic poems. We can feel Keats’ reaction to Phidias’ sculptures; rather than describing the now-controversial art, Keats tells us about ...
This poem’s first line is one of the most iconic of all time. Arguably, no other poet has managed to create such a beautiful depiction of the season so deftly, or with such a kaleidoscopic wealth of images. Keats is able to convey the synaesthesia of three months in just three stanzas. The naturalistic, almost pastoral language is reminiscent of Ha...
Here we go—the best poem ever written by Keats. Though experts disagree on whether it was written or revised for Fanny Brawne, it is certainly agreed that she is central to the poem. Bright Starhas Shakespearean scope, and a strange air of elevated calm about it. Written less than three years before Keats’ death, it darts from the cosmic to the ear...
SHORT POEMS: I am as brisk I had a dove and the sweet dove died In After-Time, a Sage of Mickle Lore Lines (Unfelt, unheard, unseen…) Lines Written on 29 May, the Anniversary of Charles’s Restoration, on Hearing the Bells Ringing O grant that like to Peter I On a Leander Which Miss Reynolds, My Kind Friend, Gave Me On the sea Read me a ...
Cool'd a long age in the deep-delved earth, Tasting of Flora and the country green, Dance, and Provençal song, and sunburnt mirth! O for a beaker full of the warm South, Full of the true, the blushful Hippocrene, With beaded bubbles winking at the brim, And purple-stained mouth;
1795–1821. Portrait of John Keats by William Hilton. John Keats was born in London on 31 October 1795, the eldest of Thomas and Frances Jennings Keats’s four children. Although he died at the age of twenty-five, Keats had perhaps the most remarkable career of any English poet. He published only fifty-four poems, in three slim volumes and a ...
‘Ode on a Grecian Urn’ by John Keats is an ekphrastic poem that praises the timeless ideals preserved by art, providing a sublime alternative to life’s fleeting impermanence. Keats wrote six odes in 1819, each exploring distinctly idealized worlds and sentiments.
