JOHN KEATS TREASURE HUNT

SECTION 3: POEMS

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     An ode is a form of lyric poetry — expressing emotion — and it's usually addressed to someone or something, or it represents the poet's musings on that person or thing. The word ode comes from a Greek word for "song," and like a song, an ode is made up of verses and can have a complex meter.

·         Ode on a Grecian urn "Thou still unravished bride of quietness!"

·         Ode on Indolence “One morn before me were three figures seen”

·         Ode on Melancholy “Though you should build a bark of dead men's bones”

·         Ode to a Nightingale “My heart aches, and a drowsy numbness pains”

·         Ode to a Psyche “I wandered in a forest thoughtlessly”

·         To Autumn “Season of mists and mellow fruitfulness”

The exact chronological and interpretive orders of the six 1819 poems are unknown, but "Ode to Psyche  was probably written first and "To Autumn" last. Keats simply dated the others May 1819.

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The inevitability of death: he expressed this inthe 1818 sonnet “When I have fears that I may cease to be.”, also in “On Seeing the Elgin Marbles” (1817)

The complementation of Beauty: ”Bright star, would I were steadfast as thou art" is the first line his love sonnet "bright Star" (1819). and in “Ode to a Nightingale” “That thou, light-wingèd Dryad of the trees, In some melodious plot, Of beechen green, and shadows numberless, Singest of summer in full-throated ease.”

Nature: “Ode on Melancholy” where he compares ca bout of depression to a “weeping cloud”, and in “Ode to Psyche,”.

The Ancient World: poems such as The Fall of Hyperion or Lamia, often take place in a mythical world, also in “To Homer” where he makes use of figures from the ancient mythology. 

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• Synaesthetic images: the combination of different senses in one image.
• Function in keats poems: two major functions. It is part of their sensual effect, and the combining of senses normally experienced as separate suggests an underlying unity of dissimilar happenings, the oneness of all forms of life.
• On Isabella, “And TASTE the MUSIC of that VISION pale” (stanza XLIX) combines three different senses; the taste, the hearing and the sight

JOHN KEATS TREASURE HUNT

SECTION 2: CONTEXT

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this piece of art represents the romantic period becuase of its exotic beauty and passion, irrationality, spontaneity, closeness to nature. Also because it rejects order, calm, harmony, balance, rationality, plus as we can often see in romantic art it shows a perference for exotic, mysterious, montruous, diseased and occult. and finally, it goes back to the ancient greek classical period through the use of mythological figures.

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The French Revolution was a period of radical social and political upheaval in France from 1789 to 1799 that profoundly affected French and modern history, marking the decline of powerful monarchies and churches and the rise of democracy and nationalism
Storming of the Bastille, 14 July 1789

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·         Interest in the common man and childhood

·         Strong senses, emotions and feelings

·         Awe of nature

·         Celebrations of the individuals

·         Importante of imagination

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    Eugene Delacroix “Jeune orphelineau cimetiere” 1824

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    Picture of Lord Byron

The relationship between Lord Byron and John Keats was not good

The rivalry and dislike between George Gordon Noel Byron, 6th Baron Byron, and John Keats has been much discussed; in their own time, however, it was felt far more keenly by Keats.  Byron was a flamboyant and handsome nobleman whose wit, charm and ancestral title accorded him entry into the most elite circles of English society.  He was also an accomplished and celebrated poet.  John Keats was a poor and struggling middle-class poet whose work was often savaged by the great critics of the age; he was advised that poetry was the provenance of nobleman such as Byron, and dismissed (by Byron, among others) as a 'Cockney' poet.  

JOHN KEATS TREASURE HUNT

SECTION 1: BIOGRAPHY
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1.      October 31, 1795 London, England

2.       He lost his parents in childhood

3.       He watched his brother one of tuberculosis

4.       The other brother immigrated to America

5.       Poverty kept him from marrying the woman he loved

6.       He dedicated most of his life to writing poems, indirectly most of his poems where about Fanny

7.       He achieved fame after his early death in 1821

8.       He died at the age of 26

Famous poems:

         Endymion; 1818

         Ode to a Nightingale; 1818

         Why did I laugh tonight?; 1818

         The Eve of St.Agnes; 1819

         Ode on a Grecian Urn; 1819

         Ode on Indolence; 1819

         Ode on Melancholy; 1819

         Bright Star; 1820

         Hyperion; 1820

Quote when he was ill: "How long is this posthumous existence of mine to go on?"

Keats' death came on February 23, 1821

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fanny Brawne was John Keat´s neighbor. They were in love, but he thought he was not good enough for her, as he was poor.

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“The morning is the only proper time for me to write to a beautiful girl whom i love so much

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John Keats and Charles Brown are friends. The relationship between them it is so important, because if it wouldn´t be for their relationship, John Keats would had never met Fanny.

“Write to George as soon as you receive this, and tell him how I am, as far as you can guess; and also a note to my sister – who walks about my imagination like a ghost- she is so like Tom. I ca scarcely bid you goodbye, even in a letter, I always made an awkward bow”