"Do Sing"" (1970) against the theme of John Keats' poem ""La Belle Dame sans Merci"" (""The Beautiful Lady without Pity""). Although ""La Belle Dame sans Merci"" opens with a description of the knight in a barren landscape, ""haggard"" and ""woe-begone"", it is the heroine Lindsay in ""When Birds Do Sing"" (1970) who shares such sentiment. Unlike the conclusion of the first stanza of Keats' poem, Flora Kidd's story has a happy ending where birds do sing. O what can ail thee, knight at arms, Alone and palely loitering? The sedge has wither'd from the lake, And no birds sing. ""My"
"umbrella pines, myrtle shrubs, roses, and carpets of wild violets"". When Keats died at 25, he had been writing poetry seriously for only about six years, from 1814 until the summer of 1820; and publishing for only four. In his lifetime, sales of Keats' three volumes of poetry probably amounted to only 200 copies. His first poem, the sonnet ""O Solitude"" appeared in ""the Examiner"" in May 1816, while his collection ""Lamia, Isabella, The Eve of St. Agnes and other poems"" was published in July 1820 before his last visit to Rome. The compression of his poetic apprenticeship and maturity"
"development, education—the combination of experience and contemplation—and that only this process, not the rationality of the previous century, would bring about true Enlightenment. The classical influences Keats invoked affected other Romantic poets, but his odes contain a higher degree of allusion than most of his contemporaries' works. As for the main theme, indolence and poetry, the poem reflects the emotional state of being Keats describes in an early 1819 letter to his brother George: [I]ndolent and supremely careless ... from my having slumbered till nearly eleven ... please has no show of enticement and pain no unbearable frown. Neither Poetry,"
"candour that he restricted their imaginative power. His identity had prevailed."" Ode on Indolence The ""Ode on Indolence"" is one of five odes composed by English poet John Keats in the spring of 1819. The others were ""Ode on a Grecian Urn"", ""Ode on Melancholy"", ""Ode to a Nightingale"" and ""Ode to Psyche"". The poem describes the state of indolence, a word which is synonymous with ""avoidance"" or ""laziness"". The work was written during a time when Keats was presumably more than usually occupied with his material prospects. After finishing the spring poems, Keats wrote in June 1819 that its"
"Sleep and Poetry ""Sleep and Poetry"" (1816) is a poem by the English Romantic poet John Keats. It was started late one evening while staying the night at Leigh Hunt's cottage. It is often cited as a clear example of Keats's bower-centric poetry, yet it contains lines that make such a simplistic reading problematic, such as: ""First the realm I'll pass/Of Flora, and old Pan ... I must pass them for a nobler life,/Where I may find the agonies, the strife /Of human hearts"" (101-102; 123-125). Furthermore, Keats defends his early ""bower-centric"" subject matter, which hearkens back to the classical"
"in the rush of pure sensation and its flow of stirring shadows and 'dim dreams'. In many ways the ode marks both a beginning and an end. It is both the feeblest and potentially the most ambitious of the sequence. Yet its failure, if we choose to consider it that, is more the result of deliberate disinclination than any inability of means."" Andrew Motion, in 1997, argued, ""Like 'Melancholy', the poem is too articulate for its own poetic good ... In two of his May odes, 'Melancholy' and 'Indolence', Keats defined themes common to the whole group with such fierce"
"poetic tradition of Homer and Virgil. Keats mounts an attack against Alexander Pope and many of his own fellow Romantic poets by downplaying their poetic departures into the imaginary: ""with a puling infant's force/They sway'd about upon a rocking horse,/And thought it Pegasus. Ah dismal soul'd!"" (185-7). Although written in simplistic rhyming couplets, the gradual turn towards inwardness serves as an important anticipation for Keats's later poetry. Sleep and Poetry ""Sleep and Poetry"" (1816) is a poem by the English Romantic poet John Keats. It was started late one evening while staying the night at Leigh Hunt's cottage. It is"
"La Belle Dame sans Merci ""La Belle Dame sans Merci"" (""The Beautiful Lady Without Mercy"") is a ballad produced by the English poet John Keats in 1819. The title was derived from the title of a 15th-century poem by Alain Chartier called ""La Belle Dame sans Mercy"". Considered an English classic, the poem is an example of Keats' poetic preoccupation with love and death. The poem is about a woman who condemns a knight to an unpleasant fate after she seduces him with her eyes and singing. The woman inspired several artists to paint images that became early examples of"
"that year. Unlike the other odes he wrote that year, ""Ode on Indolence"" was not published until 1848, 27 years after his death. The poem is an example of Keats's break from the structure of the classical form. It follows the poet's contemplation of a morning spent in idleness. Three figures are presented—Ambition, Love and Poesy—dressed in ""placid sandals"" and ""white robes"". The narrator examines each using a series of questions and statements on life and art. The poem concludes with the narrator giving up on having all three of the figures as part of his life. Some critics regard"
"pictures look warm – this struck me so much in my Sunday's walk that I composed upon it"". The final stanza of his last great ode: ""To Autumn"" runs: <poem> Where are the songs of Spring? Ay, where are they? Think not of them, thou hast thy music too,- While barred clouds bloom the soft-dying day, And touch the stubble-plains with rosy hue; </poem> Later, ""To Autumn"" became one of the most highly regarded poems in the English language. There are areas of his life and daily routine that Keats does not describe. He mentions little about his childhood or"
"nor even the semblance of a modest financial return seemed nearer."" Keats realized that he could never have Love, could not fulfil his Ambition, and could not spend his time with Poesy. The conclusion of ""Ode to Indolence"" is a dismissal of both the images and his poetry as figures that would only mislead him. Even indolence itself seems unattainable; Andrew Motion writes that the figures force Keats to regard indolence as ""the privilege of the leisured class to which he did not belong."" If the poem is read as the final poem in the 1819 ode series, ""Ode on"
"poetic indulgence. It was during the months of spring 1819 that he wrote many of his major odes. Following the month of May 1819, he began to tackle other forms of poetry, including a play, some longer pieces, and a return to his unfinished epic, ""Hyperion"". His brother's financial woes continued to loom over him, and, as a result, Keats had little energy or inclination for composition, but, on 19 September 1819, he managed to squeeze out ""To Autumn"", his last major work and the one that rang the curtain down on his career as a poet. After writing ""Ode"
"To Autumn ""To Autumn"" is a poem by English Romantic poet John Keats (31 October 1795 – 23 February 1821). The work was composed on 19 September 1819 and published in 1820 in a volume of Keats's poetry that included ""Lamia"" and ""The Eve of St. Agnes"". ""To Autumn"" is the final work in a group of poems known as Keats's ""1819 odes"". Although personal problems left him little time to devote to poetry in 1819, he composed ""To Autumn"" after a walk near Winchester one autumnal evening. The work marks the end of his poetic career, as he needed"
"melancholy. The difference between the personification of these words and those in the other odes Keats wrote in 1819 comes from the fact that while the poet describes them as human, he declines to interact with them. Keats himself fails to appear in the poem, which creates what Andrew Bennett describes as a separation between the author, the poet, and the reader. In ""Reading Voices"", Garrett Stewart reaffirms Bennett's assertion that Keats's voice never appears in the poem itself when he says, ""For all the florid staginess of his conceits, there is, in short, no mention of writing, of the"
"Ode on Indolence The ""Ode on Indolence"" is one of five odes composed by English poet John Keats in the spring of 1819. The others were ""Ode on a Grecian Urn"", ""Ode on Melancholy"", ""Ode to a Nightingale"" and ""Ode to Psyche"". The poem describes the state of indolence, a word which is synonymous with ""avoidance"" or ""laziness"". The work was written during a time when Keats was presumably more than usually occupied with his material prospects. After finishing the spring poems, Keats wrote in June 1819 that its composition brought him more pleasure than anything else he had written"
"poet summons the subject matter of Keats' poetry to weep for him. It comes and mourns at his bidding (sts. VIII–XV). Nature, celebrated by Keats in his poetry, mourns him. Spring, which brings nature to new life, cannot restore him (sts. XVI–XXI). Urania rises, goes to Keats' death chamber and laments that she cannot join him in death (sts. XXII–XXIX). Fellow poets mourn the death of Keats: Byron, Thomas Moore, Shelley, and Leigh Hunt (sts. XXX–XXXV). The anonymous ""Quarterly Review"" critic is blamed for Keats' death and chastised (sts. XXXVI–XXXVII). The poet urges the mourners not to weep any longer."
"""Of all Keats' poems, it is probably the 'Ode to a Nightingale' that has most tormented the critic [...] in any reading of the 'Ode to a Nightingale' the turmoil will not down. Forces contend wildly within the poem, not only without resolution, but without possibility of resolution; and the reader comes away from his experience with the sense that he has been in 'a wild Abyss'"". He then explained, ""It is this turbulence, I suspect, that has led Allen Tate to believe the ode 'at least tries to say everything that poetry can say.' But I propose it is"
"""Ode on Indolence"" as inferior to the other four 1819 odes. Others suggest that the poem exemplifies a continuity of themes and imagery characteristic of his more widely read works, and provides valuable biographical insight into his poetic career. By the spring of 1819, Keats had left his poorly paid position as a surgeon at Guy's Hospital, Southwark, London, to devote himself to poetry. On 12 May 1819, he abandoned this plan after receiving a request for financial assistance from his brother, George. Unable to help, Keats was torn by guilt and despair and sought projects more lucrative than poetry."
"bursting forth from a burst grape, and the beginning of a decline. In ""The Masks of Keats"", Thomas McFarland suggests that Keats's beautiful words and images attempt to combine the non-beautiful subject of melancholy with the beauty inherent in the form of the ode. He too writes that the images of the bursting grape and the ""globèd peonies"" show an intention by the poet to bring the subject of sexuality into the discussion on melancholy. Ode on Melancholy ""Ode on Melancholy"" is one of five odes composed by English poet John Keats in the spring of 1819, along with ""Ode"
"Keats. The dismissal was as much political as literary, aimed at upstart young writers deemed uncouth for their lack of education, non-formal rhyming and ""low diction"". They had not attended Eton, Harrow or Oxbridge and they were not from the upper classes. In 1819, Keats wrote ""The Eve of St. Agnes"", ""La Belle Dame sans Merci"", ""Hyperion"", ""Lamia"" and a play, ""Otho the Great"" (critically damned and not performed until 1950). The poems ""Fancy"" and ""Bards of passion and of mirth"" were inspired by the garden of Wentworth Place. In September, very short of money and in despair considering taking"
"which influenced later generations. Early in 1819, Keats left his poorly paid position as dresser (or assistant house surgeon) at Guy's Hospital, Southwark, London to completely devote himself to a career in poetry. In the past, he had relied on his brother George for financial assistance from time to time, but now, when his brother appealed to him for the same aid, the cash-strapped poet was unable to help and was overwhelmed with guilt and despair. He decided to forsake the life of a poet for a more lucrative career – but not before allowing himself a few months of"
"a number of poems. Among the English romantic movement writers none is better known than William Wordsworth's short 1804 poem ""I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud"" which has become linked in the popular mind with the daffodils that form its main image. Wordsworth also included the daffodil in other poems. Yet the description given of daffodils by his sister, Dorothy is just as poetic, if not more so, just that her poetry was prose and appears almost an unconscious imitation of the first section of the Homeric ""Hymn to Demeter"" (see Greek culture, above). Among their contemporaries, Keats refers to"
"praised, although it is now considered to be one of the greatest odes in the English language. A long debate over the poem's final statement divided 20th-century critics, but most agreed on the beauty of the work, despite various perceived inadequacies. By the spring of 1819, Keats had left his job as dresser, or assistant house surgeon, at Guy's Hospital, Southwark, London, to devote himself entirely to the composition of poetry. Living with his friend Charles Brown, the 23-year-old was burdened with money problems and despaired when his brother George sought his financial assistance. These real-world difficulties may have given"
"his house and preserved by his own doing. However, Keats relied on both his own imagination and other literature as sources for his depiction of the nightingale. The exact date of ""Ode to a Nightingale"", as well as ""Ode on Indolence"", ""Ode on Melancholy"", and ""Ode on a Grecian Urn"", is unknown, as Keats dated all as 'May 1819'. However, he worked on the four poems together, and there is a unity in both their stanza forms and their themes. The exact order the poems were written in is also unknown, but they form a sequence within their structures. While"
"a Nightingale,' 'Ode on a Grecian Urn,' and 'To Autumn' as three of the most anthologized lyric poems of tragic vision in English."" To Autumn ""To Autumn"" is a poem by English Romantic poet John Keats (31 October 1795 – 23 February 1821). The work was composed on 19 September 1819 and published in 1820 in a volume of Keats's poetry that included ""Lamia"" and ""The Eve of St. Agnes"". ""To Autumn"" is the final work in a group of poems known as Keats's ""1819 odes"". Although personal problems left him little time to devote to poetry in 1819, he"
"of Joy, Pleasure, Delight, and Beauty, and allows them to interact with two other characters which take the shape of a male and his female mistress mentioned (line 17). Keats himself fails to appear as a character in the poem, as there is no mention of the poet himself suffering from melancholy. In the final stanza, the poet describes the mistress as dwelling in Beauty, but modifies the beauty by saying that it ""must die"" (line 21). Harold Bloom suggests that this provides the poem with a hint of Keats's philosophy of negative capability, as only the beauty that will"
"Ode on Melancholy ""Ode on Melancholy"" is one of five odes composed by English poet John Keats in the spring of 1819, along with ""Ode on a Grecian Urn"", ""Ode to a Nightingale"", ""Ode on Indolence"", and ""Ode to Psyche"". The narrative of the poem describes the poet's perception of melancholy through a lyric discourse between the poet and the reader, along with the introduction to Ancient Grecian characters and ideals. While studying at Enfield, Keats attempted to gain a knowledge of Grecian art from translations of Tooke's ""Pantheon"", Lempriere's ""Classical Dictionary"" and Spence's ""Polymetis"". Although Keats attempted to learn"
"""Anatomy of Melancholy"", Thomas Chatterton's poetry, and Leigh Hunt's essays. Although Keats managed to write many poems in 1819, he was suffering from a multitude of financial troubles throughout the year, including concerns over his brother, George, who, after emigrating to America, was badly in need of money. Despite these distractions, on 19 September 1819 he found time to write ""To Autumn"". The poem marks the final moment of his career as a poet. No longer able to afford to devote his time to the composition of poems, he began working on more lucrative projects. Keats's declining health and personal"
"night's starr'd face, Huge cloudy symbols of a high romance, And think that I may never live to trace Their shadows, with the magic hand of chance; And when I feel, fair creature of an hour, That I shall never look upon thee more, Never have relish in the faery power Of unreflecting love!—then on the shore Of the wide world I stand alone, and think Till Love and Fame to nothingness do sink.- ""When I Have Fears"" primarily explores death, the fear of it, and what it prevents Keats from doing. Using the phrase ""cease to be"" shows an"
"H. Abrams explained, To Autumn' was the last work of artistic consequence that Keats completed [...] he achieved this celebratory poem, with its calm acquiescence to time, transience and mortality, at a time when he was possessed by a premonition [...] that he had himself less than two years to live"". James Chandler, also in 1998, pointed out that ""If ""To Autumn"" is his greatest piece of writing, as has so often been said, it is because in it he arguably set himself the most ambitious challenge of his brief career and managed to meet it."" Timothy Corrigan, in 2000,"
"in English poetic history as baffling as Keats's repetition of the word 'forlorn'"". When referring to the reliance of the ideas of John Dryden and William Hazlitt within the poem, Poet Laureate Andrew Motion, in 1999, argued ""whose notion of poetry as a 'movement' from personal consciousness to an awareness of suffering humanity it perfectly illustrates."" F. Scott Fitzgerald took the title of his novel ""Tender is the Night"" from the 35th line of the ode. According to Ildikó de Papp Carrington, Keats' wording, ""when, sick for home, / She stood in tears amid the alien corn"", seems to be"
"himself into Eros (love). Keats attempts this by dedicating an ""untrodden region"" of his mind to the worship of the neglected goddess. Keats was never a professional writer. Instead, he supported himself with a small income that he earned as a surgeon for Guy's Hospital. At the age of 23, Keats left the hospital, losing his source of income, in order to devote himself to writing poetry. He lived with Charles Brown, a friend who collected Keats's poetry while supporting him, during spring 1819 and composed poetry. The early products of this effort included ""La Belle Dame sans Merci"" and"
"accepting life as it is. Within the many poems that explore this idea—among them Keats's and the works by his contemporaries—Keats begins by questioning suffering, breaks it down to its most basic elements of cause and effect, and draws conclusions about the world. His own process is filled with doubt, but his poems end with a hopeful message that the narrator (himself) is finally free of desires for Love, Ambition, and Poesy. The hope contained within ""Ode on Indolence"" is found within the vision he expresses in the last stanza: ""I yet have visions for the night/And for the day"