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The Experience of Reading John
Keats’
s poems
Part 1 Introduction
John
Keats is one of the most distinguished Romantic
poets in the history of British literature.
Although in his rather short and tough
lifetime, Keats received so little financial
reward or public
recognition,
he
kept
writing.
When
reading
Keats
’
s
poems,
I’
m
completely
amazed
by
his
boundless
imagination
and
his
incomparably
beautiful
sentences
and
now
I
have
a
deeper
understanding of his attitudes towards
life and death.
Part 2 Analysis
(1) His
pursuit for beauty
Though
Keats lived in a dark period of time and had
suffered from heavy illness for quite
long before his death, he never stopped
his love and pursuit for beauty. And the beautiful
realm of
nature, life and poetry is the
most common theme in the poems that I read.
In the poem
Ode to a
Nightingale
, he describes the
nightingale as a light winged Dryad of the
trees who
“
singest of summer in
full-
throated ease”
in
“some melodious plot
of
beechen green,
and shadows
numberless”
. Through these lines, we
can almost see her graceful look and hear her
nice voice. The night scene that Keats
describes is also mysterious and amazingly
beautiful with
“
the
Queen-Moon
”
“
on
her
throne
”
,
“
clustered
around
by
all
her
starry
Fays
”
and
all
kinds
of
fragrant
blossoms
such
as
the
white
hawthorn,
the
pastoral
eglantine,
the
violets
and
the
musk-roses. All of these
create a kind of intoxicating beauty of nature.
Keats
’
s
praise
for
natural
beauty
can
also
be
found
in
the
poem
To
Autumn
and
On
the
Grasshopper and the Cricket
,
where he writes about the stunning view of the
“
season of mists and
mellow
fruitfulness
”
and the
“
poetry of
earth
”
which
“
is never
dead
”
.
Bright
Star
is a love song that Keats writes
to his lover Fanny Brawne. In this poem, Keats
not
only
writes
about
the
beauty
of
the
bright
star,
but
also
writes
about
his
young
lover
’
s
“
ripening
breast
”
and
“
tender-taken
breath
”
.
From
this,
we
can
see
Keats
’
s
attachment
to
the
beauty of life and the girl.
On First Looking into
Chapman’
s Homer
is a sonnet
we learned in class. In this poem Keats
shows his admiration for the beauty of
poetry itself. After reading
Chapman
’
s Homer, he felt
“
like
some
watcher of the skies
”
looking at a new planet or
“
like stout Cortez when with
eagle eyes
”
staring at the Pacific Ocean. These
figures show Keats
’
s ecstasy
reading the fantastic and powerful
lines of Homer
’
s
epics.
After my reading
experience, I find that almost each pieces of poem
written by Keats express
his untiring
pursuit of beauty, of nature, life, poetry and
love. I can hardly imagine how he did it
throughout all his misfortunes and
sufferings. Maybe the pursuit itself is the
motivation that keeps
him living, just
as he said to Fanny in the movie
Bright
Star
:
“
A thing of
beauty is a joy for ever:
its
loveliness increases; it will never pass into
nothingness.
”
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