John keats and nature

Keats was prolific in his short writing life, and is now one of the most studied and admired of British poets,[object Object]

The headmaster, John Clarke, was an important influence, introducing Keats to a great deal of Renaissance literature.

In 1815, Keats registered as a medical student.

He chose poetry over medical practice,[object Object]

His first surviving poem ’An Imitation of Spenser’comes in 1814, when Keats was nineteen

A leading magazine ‘The Examiner’ first published his work ‘Sonnet O Solitude’. ,[object Object]

Hyperion and The Fall of Hyperionfocus on mythological themes; the story centers on the Titans' fall to the triumphant Olympians.

He also wrote The Eve of St. Agnes, La Belle Dame Sans Merci, Lamia and Otho.,[object Object]

Keats's entertaining and illuminating letters rank highly in the history of all English literary correspondence.

Other works considered to be among Keats's greatest are the odes published in 1820. ,[object Object]

His last request was to be buried under a tombstone, without his name.,[object Object]

The ‘odes’ ,[object Object]

These odes represent Keats's attempt to create a new type of short lyrical poem, which influenced later generations.,[object Object]

It is a transitional poem that celebrates not only the richness and poignancy of the season but also the beauty of decay.,[object Object]

The work marks the end of his poetic career as he needed to earn money and could no longer devote himself to the lifestyle of a poet.,[object Object]

The poem includes an emphasis on images of motion, growth, and maturation,[object Object]

Who hath not seen thee oft amid thy store?Sometimes whoever seeks abroad may findThee sitting careless on a granary floor,Thy hair soft-lifted by the winnowing wind;Or on a half-reaped furrow sound asleep,Drowsed with the fume of poppies, while thy hookSpares the next swath and all its twined flowers;And sometimes like a gleaner thou dost keepSteady thy laden head across a brook;Or by a cider-press, with patient look,Thou watchest the last oozings, hours by hours.

Where are the songs of Spring? Ay, where are they?Think not of them, thou hast thy music too, - While barred clouds bloom the soft-dying dayAnd touch the stubble-plains with rosy hue;Then in a wailful choir the small gnats mournAmong the river sallows, borne aloftOr sinking as the light wind lives or dies;And full-grown lambs loud bleat from hilly bourn;Hedge-crickets sing, and now with treble softThe redbreast whistles from a garden-croft;And gathering swallows twitter in the skies.

In the second stanza, the speaker describes the figure of Autumn as a reaper or harvester, often seen sitting on the granary floor, her hair “soft-lifted” by the wind, and often seen sleeping in the fields or watching a cider-press squeezing the juice from apples,[object Object],[object Object]

The nightingale represents nature happiness, song and merriment.,[object Object]

He wishes to enter the “immortal” world of the nightingale

The speaker listens in the dark to the nightingale, saying that he has often been “half in love” with the idea of dying ,[object Object]

The world of imagination is not a place that a man could ever live in. This knowledge causes the narrator to become disheartened as the imaginary world is destroyed,[object Object]

Keats's love for nature is purely sensuous and he loves the beautiful sights and scenes of nature for their own sake

He does not try to find any hidden meaning in nature and he describes it as he sees it.,[object Object]

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