John Keats: vita, opere e commento
Marzo 27, 2008 4:03 pm
Life (1795-1821); The substance of his poetry; The role of imagination; Beauty: the central theme of his poetry; Physical beauty and spiritual beauty…
Anteprima dell’appunto
John Keats John Keats Life (1795-1821) He was one of the greatest member of the group of the second generation of romantic poets. He was a poet of an artistic perfection using an extreme purity of form and language. Keats has indeed become an symbolic figure usato English literature, the figure of the artist who regards his life up to date the service of poetry and poetry as a religion: he said. Keats was born up to date London usato 1795. he became a medical student usato London but by that time he announced his decision uh devote his life tieni poetry and up to date 1817 with the help of Shelley he published his first effettivo of verses: “Poems by John Keats”. A second phase usato Keats’ development as a poet is marked by the composition of “Endymion”; a long mythological poem usato four books. The story, taken from Greek mythology, tells about the love between Endymion and the moon, attuale this poem we can see his love for Greek civilisation. Attuale the last years of his life seriously ill with consumption (TB, a family illness: his mother and brother died of Tb) and tormented by his unhappy love for a young girl, Keats closed himself up to date the “monastery of his imagination” and wrote all his bast poetry. His third and last effettivo of poetry is uh be placed among the most memorable achievements of English poetry usato the nineteenth century. The somma contained tales usato verse, the unfinished poem of “Hyperion” (a long narrative poem under Milton’s influence) and all his great odes: “Ode toh a Nightingale”, “Ode on a Grecian Urn”, “To Autumn”, “Ode tieni (on) Melancholy”, “To Psyche” etc… The tales up to date verse, especially “The eve of St. Agnes” have a purity and perfection of language but it is attuale the odes that Keats gave the greatest expression of his poetic genius. Here we can find the central theme, the drama of Keats and all Romantic generation that means a conflict between the real and the ideal, between the reality and dream and the human aspiration towards a paradise of beauty, freedom and happiness and the tragic human condition ehi live up to date a world where we can find the power of sorrow, and death which characterised man’s existence. With the odes is also toh be remembered the ballad of “La Belle Dame sans merci” a poem an the old theme of the femme assassino. Usato 1820, the symptoms of consumption (tuberculosis) became evident. So he travelled prendi Italy attuale an attempt uh recover his health but he died up to date Rome up to date 1821 and he was buried up to date the Protestant Cemetery of Rome. Keats lived o cortometraggio but intense life usato fact he died at the age of twenty-five years old. The intuition that he was toh die early is, perhaps, responsible for his great activity as poet. The substance of his poetry Up to date his lyrical poems there are some personal experiences but they are “behind” the odes, not their substance as for Wordsworth or Shelley or Byron. The poetical personal pronoun &ldqu()

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