In fact, Keats was only 25 when he died in Like Ledger, Keats cut a pretty dashing figure. The ladies swooned for him. Heck, the men swooned for him, too. When he died at the tender young age of 25, he had already penned poems and letters that would become the cornerstones of the Romantic movement. Like most tragic heroes, Keats never lived to see the public appreciate his work. In fact, during his life, pretty much every paper and publication rejected him.
It was only after his death that his poetry collections including such all-time hits as " Ode to a Nightingale " and Endymion received the critical acclaim they were due. Unlike Heath Ledger, Keats was pretty morbidly fascinated with the thought of his own demise. See, he spent most of his youth and adulthood suffering from tuberculosis, a disease that brought him into frequent contact with the possibility of death. Keats was a total Romantic. That's Romantic with a big "R" — this describes a group of writers kicking around in the s.
Like his Romantic buddies, he was a big fan of huge, sweeping, mind-blowing emotion. Keats managed to ratchet up that emotion by adding in a huge dose of mortality to most of his works. Life, you see, is fleeting.
If you read " When I have fears that I may cease to be ," you'll find a prime example of just this sort of mentality. The poem's practically a primer for Keats' own psyche. It lays on the line his desperate desire for love and success. Keats was conscious of needing time to write his poetry; when twenty-one, he wrote,. Line 6. The first quatrain four lines emphasizes both how fertile his imagination is and how much he has to express; hence the imagery of the harvest, e. A harvest is, obviously, fulfillment in time, the culmination which yields a valued product, as reflected in the grain being "full ripen'd.
In the next quatrain lines , he sees the world as full of material he could transform into poetry his is "the magic hand" ; the material is the beauty of nature "night's starr'd face" and the larger meanings he perceives beneath the appearance of nature or physical phenomena "Huge cloudy symbols ". In the third quatrain lines , he turns to love. As the "fair creature of an hour," his beloved is short-lived just as, by implication, love is.
Ode on Melancholy. Ode to a Nightingale. Ode to Psyche. On First Looking into Chapman's Homer. On Seeing the Elgin Marbles. The Eve of St.
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