Free Essays on John Keats

worth has a more profound insight into the human experience more so than Milton. In Keats’ work on â€Å"Ode to a Grecian Urn,† he shows how he has been â€Å"carried away† by this image of perfection. In this piece, he tries to recreate the story depicted by the urn; by the use of his own experiences. He claims the panting love on the urn is far superior to breathing human passion. The more alive the urn becomes, the less ideal it is. In the first stanza, Keats asks questions. In the following stanzas there are exclamamtion marks. Keats’ last two lines are â€Å"Beauty is truth, truth is beauty†¦Ã¢â‚¬ ¦.etc†¦. This brings to fact that in his writing he comes to terms with ugly truths and realities even though he feels the urn speaks for itself; it is a beautiful illusion.... Free Essays on John Keats Free Essays on John Keats John Keats was born in London at the end of October 1795. He died in Rome on February 23, 1821. In The Use of Poetry (1933), T.S. Eliot referred to the letters of Keats as â€Å" the most notable and the most important ever written by and English poet, â€Å" primarily because â€Å" there is hardly one statement of Keats poetry, which †¦ will not be found true.† Keats can be very easily identified as becoming one of the greatest poets in only 25 years. Douglas Bush has said that no other English poet would rank as high as Keats if he had died so young, not even William Shakespeare. Keats attended school at Enfeld through elementary stages. Following his elementary education he was apprenticed to an apothecary-surgeon at Edmonton. After four years of his apprenticeship Keats entered Guy’s and St. Thomas’s hospitals in London as a medical student and received a certificate allowing him to practice. John’s father was killed when Keats was only eight years of age. Before Keats turned 15 his mother died of tuberculosis. Then, in 1818 Keats brother Tom died of tuberculosis foreshadowing Keats’ own death. After the death of his parents, Keats and his siblings were left with their biological grandmother. Their grandmother decided to appoint two businessmen as legal guardians of Keats and the three remaining siblings. John’s grandmother set aside a rather large trust fund for the children but the poorly chosen businessmen kept the money for their own. Four years after the grandmother was appointed she passed away, another victim of tuberculosis. Later in his life at the age of 25, Keats died of tuberculosis only to become one of the greatest English poets in history.... Free Essays on John Keats John Keats was one of the great Romantic poets greatly known for the collection of poetry called the â€Å"Odes.† John Keats once wrote that â€Å"Poetry should be great and unobtrusive, a thing which enters into one’s soul, and does not startle it or amaze it with itself but with its subject.† John Keats rejected the Church and the pious frauds of practiced religion. Although, Keats’ feelings were of this, he is very keen on religious sensibility. Keats shows he is always searching for personal faith that will eventually do him justice. Keats shows signs of the annihilation of tyranny and the growth of popular privileges, thus the progress of free sentiments when he compares the works of Wordsworth and Milton. He feels Wordsworth has a more profound insight into the human experience more so than Milton. In Keats’ work on â€Å"Ode to a Grecian Urn,† he shows how he has been â€Å"carried away† by this image of perfection. In this piece, he tries to recreate the story depicted by the urn; by the use of his own experiences. He claims the panting love on the urn is far superior to breathing human passion. The more alive the urn becomes, the less ideal it is. In the first stanza, Keats asks questions. In the following stanzas there are exclamamtion marks. Keats’ last two lines are â€Å"Beauty is truth, truth is beauty†¦Ã¢â‚¬ ¦.etc†¦. This brings to fact that in his writing he comes to terms with ugly truths and realities even though he feels the urn speaks for itself; it is a beautiful illusion....