Paper No. 105. John Keats as a Romantic poet

Presentation of John Keats as a Romantic poet

1. John Keats as Poet of Romantic Age Here is where your presentation begins

2. Personal Details Prepared by Payal Bambhaniya Roll No. :- 16 Sem :- 1 (M.A.) Paper no. :- 105 Paper Name :- History of English Literature Enrollment no. :- 4069206420220002 Batch :- 2022 – 2024 Submitted to :- Department of English, M.K.B.U.

3. Introduction of Romantic Age Romantic period started in the 1800. The Romantic period began with the Publication of 'Lyrical Ballads’ by William Wordsworth and Samuel Coleridge. Romanticism is Artistic movement, which was concerned with the expression of individuals feelings and emotions. The Age of Romanticism is also known as the second creative period of English literature.

4. The Glory of the age is in the poetry of William Wordsworth Samuel Taylor Coleridge Lord Byron P. B. Shelley John Keats

5. Life of John Keats Keats’s life of devotion to beauty and to poetry is all the more remarkable in view of his lowly origin. He was born in the stable of the Swan and Hoop Inn, London, in 1795. He was died in 1821. He was a famous poet of second creative period of Romanticism. He Started writing when he was 19 years old.

6. Writing style John Keats was known for English Romantic lyric Poet. John Keats wrote Sonnets, Odes and Epics. Meaning of Odes Poetry :- “ A poem expressing the writer’s thoughts and feelings about a particular person or subject that is written in lines and stanzas varying in length.” For example , “Ode to a Nightingale”. His poetry contains many poetic device such as Alletration , Personification, Metaphors and Consonants.

7. Themes of his poems Beauty Nature Love Fancy Power Pain Keats’s love for nature is purely Sensuous and he Loves the beautiful sights and scenes of their own sake. His most of the poem based on Nature and love. Keats found in nature endless sources of poetic inspiration.

8. Ode to a Nightingale To Autumn La Belle Dame Sans Merci Ode to Phyche Lamia Ode to Melancholy John Keats’s Poems

9. Ode to a Nightingale "Ode to a Nightingale" was written by the Romantic poet John Keats in the spring of 1819. It is a longest poem of John Keats. The poem focuses on a speaker standing in a dark forest, listening to the beguiling and beautiful song of the nightingale bird. This provokes a deep and meandering meditation by the speaker on time, death, beauty, nature, and human suffering. At times, the speaker finds comfort in the nightingale's song and at one point even believes that poetry will bring the speaker metaphorically closer to the nightingale. 

10. La Belle Dame Sans Merci “ The Beautiful lady without pity.” It is a ballad poem written by John Keats. One of the most studied and highly regarded English Romantic poets. The poem talk about a fairy who lures a man into love. Poem is decided into two parts. Poem describes the encounter between a knight and the Lady. The lady is beautiful, she expressed love to him. At the end of the Story he dies alone with no one to comfort him in his last moments. The major theme in this poems :- illusion vs reality, death , love and seduction. Rhyme Scheme:- ABAB

11. Compare with other poets of Romantic period Keats was not only the last but the most perfect of the Romanticism. we compare with other poets like Scott,Byron , Wordsworth,Shelley and others. Scott was merely telling stories, and Wordsworth reforming poetry or upholding the moral law, and Shelley advocating impossible reforms, and Byron voicing his own egoism and the Political discontent of the times. While Keats lived apart from men and from all political measures, worshipping beauty like a devotee, perfectly content to write what was in his own heart , or to reflect some splendour of the natural world as he saw or dreamed it to be.

12. “Endymion” Poem by John Keats. It is a constant source of happiness and pleasure. It’s loveliness increase every moment. We can choose to see beauty in the simple things around us. But this Beauty becomes sourse of unending joy for us.

13. Conclusion Thus, we can say that John Keats was a most promising figure of the early nineteenth century, and one of the most remarkable in the history of English literature. Keats does not think nature as other phase of development but on the other hand he does not challenge nature’s importance. That is why nature imagery is an important element in many of his poetry . His choice of subjects differ from that of most of the other major Romantic Poets.

14. Works citation Britannica, The Editors of Encyclopaedia. "Romanticism". Encyclopedia Britannica, 17 Aug. 2022, https://www.britannica.com/art/Romanticism. Accessed 19 October 2022. Britannica, The Editors of Encyclopaedia. "La Belle Dame sans merci ". Encyclopedia Britannica, 27 Mar. 2020, https://www.britannica.com/topic/La-Belle-Dame-sans-merci-by-Keats. Accessed 19 October 2022. Howard, James. "Ode to a Nightingale." LitCharts . LitCharts LLC, 8 May 2019. Web. 19 Oct 2022. “Ode.” Merriam- Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/ode. Accessed 18 Oct. 2022. William J. Long, English Literature , Sahitya Sarowar .

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