John Keats

By: Kara Leffew, Jenn Parsons, and Stephanie Whitt

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John Keats was an English Romantic Poet. He was born on October 31, 1795, and died in the fall of 1821. His parents were Thomas and Frances Jennings Keats. John Keats developed an interest in classics and history which stayed with him throughout his short life.

Glorifies the Individual

Poem Title Bright Star, Would I

Were Steadfast As I Though Art

Examples/Quotes “A flowery tale more

sweetly than our rhyme: What leaf-fring’d legend haunts about thy shape of deities or morals, or of both.”

Exalts Nature

Poem Title To Autumn

Examples/Quotes He is trying to say how

autumn is under appreciated like most things in life. And how people are quick to look part the beauty it holds.

Values Imagination and Emotion

Poem Title Ode On A Grecian Urn

Examples/Quotes “Beauty is truth, truth

beauty,” that is all ye know on Earth, and all ye need to know.”

Celebrates Everyday Life

Poem Title Bright Star, Would I

Were Steadfast As Thou Art

Examples/Quotes “The moving water at

their priestlike task of pure ablution round earth’s human shores. Or gazing on the new soft fallen mask of snow upon the mountains and the moors.”

Explores the Supernatural and Exotic

Poem Title When I Have Fears

That I May Cease To Be

Examples/Quotes “Never shall I relish in

the fairy power of unreflecting love.”

Lyrical and Expressive

Poem Title Bright Star, Would I

Were Steadfast As Thou Art

Examples/Quotes “Awake forever in a

sweet unrest, Still, still to be hear her tender-taken breath. And so live ever-or else swoon to death.”