Life and poetry of John Keats

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John Keats
Born 1795 London
1804 died his dad 1 mom 2nd marriage with no success
mom goes away
1810 mom died tuberculosis
Studied medicine S no good health to support studies
interest in literature unsuccessful literary career
1814 died brother Tom
1820 physical conditions get worse and worse 1 leaves England to better climates
Rome, Italy
Most productive period 1816/1819 / ODES
Particularly sad life not involved in social life
tragedies + economic difficulties + unsuccessful literary career +
hopeless love affair
Sense of melancholy
Impending sense of death
Sense of sadness
Poetry for him meant something to ESCAPE from his sad life
IMAGINATION struck by BEAUTY can make things immortal
can be also terrible
settled in every object & relationships
psychological beauty
Poetry means to DEFEAT DEATH P cause the poet days but the work stays
as example of beauty
PROPHET OF BEAUTY P moments of inspiration when Beauty strikes the poet’s
imagination

La Belle Dame Sans Merci
It’s an ODE
Linked to Medieval Age legends + supernatural elements
but seen in a romantic point of view
traditional form of the BALLAD subject = love
seen with romantic eyes = symbolic
s setting = Nature
evocative use of used to let the
readers understand better the feelings of the protagonist.
r cyclic form
begins in Medias Res
wandering of the KNIGHT symbol = to find truth
LADY L sensual love = a refrain to his hopeless love
death = from the tragedies of his life
poetry = in a moment of lack of inspiration
beauty = not a physical one but in a moral one ‘cause she’s a sort of witch
SENSE OF MAGIC S develops in the sexy language of the lady bewitching
DREAM/REALITY / living an illusion. Is he awake or asleep?
awakes finally in a field lived the experience or not?
Coleridge sense of SUBLIME = something great/huge/horrible/more than beautiful
the horrible/terrible beauty
/ the skin protagonist t deathlike character
need to wander like a poet in search of imagination
Coleridge shorter ballad
no moral end