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The latest of Keats’s odes “To Autumn” was written in September 1819. Here the tensions, opposition, and Conflicting emotions are diminished amid a series of dense impressions of a season whose bounty contains both fulfillment and incipient decay, both an intensification of life and inevitable but the natural process of aging and dying. In thought… Continue reading Analysis of Ode to Autumn by John Keats: 2022
John Keats- A lover of beauty and rest, John Keats, the romantic poet, was born as the son of a ostler in London. He was apprenticed to a surgeon after college, but left surgery to embrace poetry. His twenty-six year of life with a very short period of poetic career had witnessed malicious criticism and… Continue reading Ode on Melancholy Summary and Analysis by John Keats: 2022
John Keats- John Keats is hailed as one of the greatest romantic poets of all times. Born in 1795, he went on to write several poems starting from an early age of 18. Though his poems were not much appreciated while he was alive, they were, and are much celebrated in the later years. He was… Continue reading Ode on Indolence Summary and Analysis by John Keats: 2022
From the very first line, the poem proposes to do what its title “A Valediction of Weeping” evinces; Donne composed this piece as a valedictory note of absence from his wife owing to travel abroad. The poem is centred on the narrator’s central thematic entreaty of taking stride in this temporary leave-taking, rather than indulging… Continue reading A Valediction Of Weeping Analysis by John Donne: 2022
John Milton is one of the best-known English poets of the Romantic era, a period where poetry was about the personification of nature, and a new movement of aesthetics was evolved. John Milton is known for some of his best poems, like Daffodils. How Soon Hath Time: Summary Here, I am going to look upon… Continue reading How Soon Hath Time: Summary: 2022
Context: John Milton is one of the best English poets that history has ever seen. He writes this sonnet on his 23rd birthday, and speaks about his disappointment with himself, his stature, ad failure in life. This sonnet was introspection about his age and how meaningless his life has become. He says that his age… Continue reading How Soon Hath Time Analysis by John Milton: 2022
First and foremost, this poem is about the poetry of the earth. This ‘poetry’ that Keats talks about can be read variously. The Poet of Earth: Analysis Literally speaking, the poetry of earth indicates the various sounds found in the natural world, be it the calls of birds or beasts or insects. These natural sounds… Continue reading The Poetry of Earth: Analysis
The poem is a sonnet by John Keats. The poem was composed in the December of 1816 when the poet was twenty-one years of age. It was published posthumously in ‘The Poetical Works of John Keats’ in 1884. About the Poet: John Keats (1795–1821) was one of the leading figures in the second-generation Romantic poets.… Continue reading The Poetry of Earth: Summary
About the Poet: John Donne was a cleric for the Church of England, whose exhortations impacted Ernest Hemingway’s “For Whom the Bell Tolls”, who took the title for his novel from Donne’s “Devotions Upon Emergent Occasions”. It would seem that Donne is a heavily under-celebrated poet, but if one has ever heard the phrase “no… Continue reading Analysis of John Donne’s “A Lecture upon the Shadow”
Air and Angels: Themes Love: Love is the predominant theme. Love is approached in two different ways in this poem. Initially, the speaker, whom we can also call the poet-persona, can be seen as having a definitive view of love. Love, according to him, in the first stanza, needs to take a bodily form to… Continue reading Air and Angels: Themes and Poetic Devices
