John Keats one of the latter Romantic poets, died at a very young age. Although he started his career out being in the medical field, his passion and loved proved greater for the art of writing poem. Keats was famous for writing all different types of sonnets. He was also known to write poems that were meaningful, loving and somewhat sensuous. It seems that in most of his poems he was wondering about life, and more possibly of what will become of life in another form. In his poem Ode On A Grecian Urn, Keats releases what seems to be a questionable reason of what may happen in the after life. He begins to explain what happens when a looks at an urn and sees the picture on it and wonder what the pictures represent. These are some of the lines that are memorable:
Heard melodies are sweet, but those unheard
Are sweeter; therefore, ye soft pipes, play on;
Not to a sensual ear, but, more endear'd,....
She cannot fade, though thou hast not thy bliss,
For ever wilt thou love, and she be fair!
Keats describes in the poem that beauty can not fade because as long as he remember it, it will never die. He was so different from the earlier poets because he never had a formal education and he did not live his life with much controversy.
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Tamica,
ReplyDeleteOK post on Keats. I like the famous passage you quote. You don't really discuss that passage at all, though, or speculate on what it means. Your comments after the quotation don't refer to it at all, and so the quotation just seems like padding for your blog post.
Good post and nice quote! I really liked Keats and I found a lot of his work did wander around the meaning of life and death. It was kinda creepy that so much of his work surrounded death when he died so young.
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