Emily Piriz
Mr. Metz
Period 8
13 April 2014
John Keats: The Romanticist
When people hear "the Romanticism Era" and the poets that were involved in this era, they usually think about John Keats. Even though Keats lived for a short twenty-six years, he impacted the Romanticism Era like no other. The poems that he wrote and the difficult early life that he had made Keats the perfect Romanticist poet.
John Keats was born on October 31, 1795 in the town of London, England to Thomas and Frances Jennings Keats; he was the eldest of five brothers and sisters, one of whom died at birth. Both of Keats’ parents died when he was at a relatively young age. When he was only eight years old, Keats’ father, who was a stable keeper, died from getting trampled by a horse, and his mother died when he was fourteen from tuberculosis, which is a bacterial infection that can spread through the lymph nodes and bloodstream to any organ in your body, according to webmd.com. John attended a school, Enfield Academy, who the head master was John Clarke, whose son Charles Cowden Clarke did much to encourage Keats's literary objectives (“Keats”). In 1811, Keats left school to become an apprentice to a surgeon. It did not take him long to realize that this is not what he wanted to do, so in 1814 Keats cancelled the apprenticeship and decided to dedicate his life to writing poetry.
“His first mature poem is the sonnet On First Looking Into Chapman’s Homer (1816), which was inspired by his excited reading of George Chapman’s classic 17th-century translation of the Iliad and the Odyssey” (“John”). Charles Clarke introduced Keats to Leigh Hunt, the publisher of the “Examiner”. Keats's first book, Poems, was published in March 1817, the most interesting poem in ...
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...ing of humanity” (“Hyperion”).
The Romanticist Era was an era where everything everyone wrote about was loving. This was perfect for John Keats because he implimented his thoughts and emotions into his writings very well. During this era the poets created a new form of poetry called Odes, which are lyrical poems in the form of an address to a particular subject. A lot of the poetry that was released during this time period had not only to do with romance, but with how the poets felt about anything.
Keats did a lot in the small amount of time he spent on earth. The era that Keats was born in was the perfect era for him. Though he only had one major successful book of poems, that one book made him one of the most notable names that came from the Romanticism Era. The poems that he wrote and the difficult early life that he had made Keats the perfect Romanticist poet.
Born in March of 1916 as Jacob (Jack) Ezra Katz, he was the third child to Benjamin and Augusta Katz. His parents were both Polish immigrants of Jewish descent and they raised him in East New York, the predominantly Jewish section of Brooklyn. As immigrants they were plagued with financial difficulties and this was further aggravated when they struggled through the Depression. Despite all of these hardships, Keats had already begun to showcase his artistic abilities. At the age of eight he was hired to paint the sign of a local store. Naturally, his father was quite proud of him when he earned twenty-five cents for his work and hoped that this might endeavor might lead to a steady career as a sign pa¬inter. Unfortunately for him, Keats was smitten with Fine Arts and won his first award in Junior High School: a medal for ...
"John Keats." British Literature 1780-1830. Comp. Anne K. Mellor and Richard E. Matlak. Boston: Heinle & Heinle, 1996. 1254-56. Print.
Romanticism first came about in the 18th century and it was mostly used for art and literature. The actual word “romanticism” was created in Britain in the 1840s. People like Victor Hugo, William Wordsworth, and Percy Bysshe Shelley had big impacts on this style of art. Romanticism is an art in which people express their emotion. Whatever they believed is put into a picture, painting, poem, or book. Romanticism goes deep into a mind. It is very deep thinking and it’s expressing yourself through that deep thinking. Romanticism is the reaction to the Enlightenment and the enlightenment aka the “Age of Reason” took place during the 1700s to 1800s. The enlightenment emphasized being rational and using your mind; on the other hand, romanticism focuses on emotion and imagination. It says don’t just focus on rationality and reason.
Another reason that Keats believed that his work was ‘too smokeable’, in other words his poem would go up in smoke too easily, because the critics may have thought that Keats would go to any lengths for fame, even taking a well known fairy tale story and turning it into a money maker for himself. In a letter written to his friend in October 1818 Keats revealed that fame was not on his agenda as he described himself as a “camelion poet”, ‘camelion’ has connotations of something which takes on the colours of its background in order to camouflage, in other words, Keats was not interested in the conventional things of poetry, he wanted to be invisible to others, but his work to be seen. Keats did not want fame, but a reason for him believing his work would be subject to ridicule is that others may have believed he was only writing for fame. When Keats was preparing for the publication of Isabella he condemned it’s ‘inexperience’; ‘simplicity’ and ‘mawkishness’ in terms of its language and the storyline, Keats may have just been covering for himself and his reputation in case of ridicule, or his writing skills had improved during the eighteen months prior to its publication, and
The musings of Keats and Charlotte Smith identify with the British Romantic movement. This movement emerged as the political and social movements of that time were shifting into a new phase. With revolutions occurring, Britain ushered in the Romantic era during the late seventeen hundreds, gaining momentum until the start of the twentieth century. Romanticism reevaluated traditional Medieval characteristics of chivalry, love, and adventure, while the poets of the time idealized visionary imagination. They believed these characteristics should be present in politics and literature alike. What is now proved was once only imagined. The Romanticists meant to guide the people into an age of philosophical change; for the better. Their idealized
John Keats uses various techniques in his compositions to evoke a reader’s response to his theme. In Keats’s poem, “On first looking into Chapman’s Homer” depicts Keats’s emotions and feelings after being read Chapman’s Elizabethan translation of the Odyssey. To show the magnitude of his delight, Keats compares his feelings to those of many explorers, who discover the wonders of the world and universe.
In the dictionary, romanticism is defined as a movement in the arts and literature that originated in the late 18th century, emphasizing inspiration, subjectivity, and the primacy of the individual. Characteristics of romanticism are: interest in the common man and childhood, awe of nature and the importance of imagination. Usually when we hear the word romanticism we automatically think that it has something to do with being romantic. With poetry, the writers use Romanticism as way of expressing their feelings and emotions using the gift of the nature that surrounds us. John Keats’s odes are especially known for romanticism specifically his most famous ode, Ode to a Nightingale. In this poem Keats reveals how miserable he is with his life and uses his mind to breakaway to a perfect place. When his plan turns out to be disheartening he comes back to the real world with an altered outlook on life.
Percy Bysshe Shelley, John Keats, George Gordon Byron and Samuel Taylor Coleridge were all poets in the Romantic era. They all had a love of their country and wrote about nature and revolution in some of their poems.
William Butler Yeats was one of the most famous poets of the nineteenth century. Even though William Butler Yeats wrote both Victorian and Modernistic literature, he still had a large impact on the modernistic style. “After 1910, Yeats's dramatic art took a sharp turn toward a highly poetical, static, and esoteric style” (nobelprize.org). Even though Yeats was considered a patriot, “he deplored the hatred and bigotry of the Nationalist movement” This concern was new in the Modernism era.
John Keats was born in London on October 31, 1795. He was educated at Clarke’s School in Enfield. He enjoyed a liberal education that mainly reflected on his poetry. His father died when he was eight and his mother died when he was fourteen. After his mother died, his maternal grandmother granted two London merchants, John Rowland Sandell and Richard Abbey, guardianship. Abbey played a major roll in the development of Keats, as Sandell only played a minor one. These circumstances drew him extremely close to his two brothers, George and Tom, and his sister Fanny. When he 15, Abbey removed him from the Clarke School, as he became an apothecary-surgeon’s apprentice. Then in 1815, he became a student at Guy’s Hospital. He registered for a six- month course to become a licensed surgeon. Soon after he decided he was going to be a doctor he realized his true passion was in poetry. So he decided he would try to excel in poetry also. His poetry that he wrote six years before his death was not very good. As his life progressed his poetry became more mature and amazing. He looked up to Shakespeare and Milton. He studied a lot of there poetry and imitated these two writers. His work resembled Shakespeare.
William Wordsworth and Samuel Taylor Coleridge are two of the major figures of the Romantic period and their writings had a great impact on people and the anti-revolutionary spirit.
One of the most famous poets in literary history is that of William Wordsworth. He lived between the years of 1770-1850. He was a very strong poet and many of his works have some degree of a pessimistic view to them. They could be understood after the hard life he led. He saw the French Revolution at its height and wrote several poems about it. He had an illegitimate daughter with a woman in France. When he returned back to England he married Mary Hutchinson, who gave him two sons and another daughter.
John Keats was born on Halloween, October 31st, 1795. He was born just outside of the city of London. Keats was one of four other siblings, making a total of 6 children. The four others were boys while only one was a girl and then there was Keats. His father Thomas was a stable keeper and his mother France was also a stable keeper. Keats’s writing is believed to have much influence from his life’s misfortunes as well as those around him at certain points in his life.
The writer I have chosen to speak about is the romanticist John Keats. I chose this particular poet as I believe his ideas are the best expressed of the composers we have studied. I have looked at "Ode on a Grecian Urn," "Ode on Melancholy" and "Ode to Autumn" and I think some important comparisons can be drawn from them. Each poem has been chosen because I think that the ideas conveyed in them are among the more significant in Keats's works.
John Keats, a poet of the romantic era was born in 1795 lived until the young age of 26 years, dying in the year 1821. His young death would be caused from the same sickness that first took his mother’s life. After the death of his father from falling off a horse, Keats went to go live with his grandmother leaving his mother and new stepfather behind. His mother remarried very quickly, her actions upset Keats very much, which made him want to move out so fast after his father’s death. He questioned if his mother actual loved his father if she could move on so fast. Keats was a relatively small man in stature; he was recorded to be around five feet three inches. He had unique passions and these qualities did not match his appearance and