Questions tagged [john-keats]
Questions about the works of the English Romantic poet John Keats (1795 – 1821) and his life as a writer.
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Why is the 1820 Indicator version of La Belle Dame Sans Merci seen as more "politically correct"?
In his textbook Theory of Literature, Paul Fry writes at length about Jerome McGann's critique of Keats. As part of this he has this to say about the comparison between the 1819/1848 and the 1820 ...
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Meaning of the noun 'sweet' in Keats' "Endymion"
I am unsure about the meaning of sweet when used as a noun in John Keats' Endymion.
Here are some examples uses of the word:
Verse 224:
Thus ending, on the shrine he heap’d a spire
Of teeming sweets, ...
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Explain the grammar of "That not one fleecy lamb ..." in Keats' "Endymion"
I have a question regarding the meaning of a stanza from Keats' Endymion:
Among the shepherds, ’twas believed ever,
That not one fleecy lamb which thus did sever
From the white flock, but pass’d ...
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Has "To Autumn" ever ended the first stanza with something other than a period?
Is there an edition of Keats' poem To Autumn which ends the first stanza with something other than a period (full stop)? Do we have an edition of it that Keats saw through the press?
I think the ...
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Is Keats' swan with "neck of arched snow" an allusion to Milton's "swan with arched neck"?
I discovered something quite interesting today in John Milton's Paradise Lost. Here is Milton (this is the Archangel Raphael relating to Adam and Eve the creation of the world):
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Why was John Keats called a poet “who was kill’d off by one critique”?
In Canto XI of Lord Byron’s magnificent work Don Juan, romantic poet Keats is mentioned as a poet
who was kill’d off by one critique.
Why he was referred to like that? And which critique was it?
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What did Keats mean by “it is not without a feeling of regret that I make it public” in his preface to "Endymion"?
John Keats, in the Preface to Endymion, wrote:
Knowing within myself the manner in which this poem has been produced, it is not without a feeling of regret that I make it public.
Why did he express ...
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Who is the “close bosom-friend of the maturing sun”?
John Keats, in his ode "To Autumn", writes
Season of mists and mellow fruitfulness,
Close bosom-friend of the maturing sun.
Who is the close bosom-friend of the maturing sun?
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Is there any deep connection between Hyperion (the sci-fi novel) and Hyperion (the poem)? [duplicate]
Hyperion is a sci-fi classic by Dan Simmons which takes its name from the poem by John Keats of the same name. The novel makes multiple references to the poem by Keats and actually Keats is even a ...
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Where did Keats write “wrinkled brow and sneer of cold command”?
Face to Face with Hon. Henry Litton GBM CBM JP, Former Permanent Judge of the Court of Final Appeal | Hong Kong Lawyer
A good judge is also humble – they “see the world as the common man and woman ...
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Keats' views on beauty
In the poem Endymion: A poetic romance (1818), the first stanza of Book I (beginning, "A thing of beauty is a joy for ever") focuses a great deal on beauty where Keats presents some of his views on ...
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Are "simple sheep" a biblical reference in Keats' "Endymion"?
In the poem Endymion: A poetic romance (1818), the first stanza of Book I (beginning, "A thing of beauty is a joy for ever") contains the following passage:-
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What was the connection between Hardy and Keats?
Thomas Hardy's short poem "At Lulworth Cove a Century Back" is a sort of ode to Keats, who apparently left England from near Lulworth Cove on his way to Rome:
"Good. That man goes to Rome — to ...
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What are the "lovely tales" in Keats' "Endymion"?
What is Keats saying in the last three lines here?
And such too is the grandeur of the dooms
We have imagined for the mighty dead;
All lovely tales that we have heard or read:
An endless ...
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On what occasion did Shelley say "Keats was a Greek"?
Once Shelley said, "Keats was a Greek." What was the context? Whom did he say this to?
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Meaning of "shade to shade" in Keats' "Ode on Melancholy"
In "Ode on Melancholy," Keats writes
For shade to shade will come too drowsily,
And drown the wakeful anguish of the soul
What is meant by "shade to shade will come too drowsily"?
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Why is "Ode on Melancholy" an Ode?
What features of Keats's "Ode on Melancholy" make it an ode? This is a question that seems to be important in our English class, yet I don't have a comprehensive answer.
Merriam-Webster defines "ode" ...
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Do the poisons in "Ode on Melancholy" have deeper meaning?
In "Ode on Melancholy", Keats uses the images of three poisons in the first stanza: Wolf's bane, nightshade, and yew-berries. Are these poisons simply meant to connote death/suicide, or might they ...
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Why is wolf's bane "tight-rooted" in Keats' "Ode on Melancholy"?
In Keats's 'Ode on Melancholy', he writes
neither twist Wolf's-bane, tight-rooted, for its poisonous wine;
Why did Keats choose to describe Wolf's-bane as "tight-rooted"?
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Alternate meaning of "still" in 'Ode to a Nightingale'
This resource on 'Ode to a Nightingale' by Keats says that the word "still" in stanza 6 ("Still wouldst thou sing") might have more than one meaning. However, I can't see it meaning anything beyond '...
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Meaning of this line in "On seeing the Elgin Marbles"
And each imagined pinnacle and steep
Of godlike hardship tells me I must die
The "pinnacle and steep" represent the pillars of the Parthenon if I'm not mistaken. But the next line doesn't ...
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What is the meaning of "To Autumn"?
Many poems are filled with metaphors and underlying ideas about deeper things and more broad issues or feelings. I personally feel that "To Marguerite" is an example of this, where the poem is ...
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Are Endymion and Hyperion by John Keats intended to be related pieces?
Hyperion and Endymion are poems by the famous poet John Keats, both based on Greek mythology.
Hyperion talks about the Titan's despairing after their defeat by the Olympians, and was written in 1818-...
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Was Dan Simmons' Hyperion Cantos based on the story beats of the same Keats poems?
I've read Dan Simmons' Hyperion Cantos, composed of the books Hyperion, Fall of Hyperion, Endymion, and Rise of Endymion.
The series pays considerable homage to the life and works of the 1800s poet ...
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Had Keats read any of Homer's works before reading Chapman's translation of them?
In "On First Looking into Chapman's Homer," John Keats writes:
Oft of one wide expanse had I been told
That deep-browed Homer ruled as his demesne;
Yet never did I breathe its pure serene
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