I writ my name in a water....

1. John Keats as a
Romantic poet
Paper V: The Romantic Literature
Student’s Name: Kaushal Desai
Class: M.A. English
Sem: II
Roll No. : XIV
Submitted To: Maharaja Krishnakumarsinhji
Bhavnagar University

2. Poets of
The
Romantic
Age
William Wordsworth
S.T. Coleridge
P.B. Shelley
Lord Byron
John Keats

3. John Keats
• John Keats (31 October 1795 – 23 February 1821) was an
English Romantic poet.
• He was one of the key figures in the second generation of the
Romantic movement
• The poetry of Keats is characterized by sensual imagery.
• Keats as the supreme lover of beauty says, “ A thing of
beauty is joy forever ”.

4. John Keats foremost Themes
Beauty Love
Nature Fancy
Power Pain

5. What makes John Keats a Romantic poet
• “Beauty is truth, truth beauty,’ that is all ye know on earth,
and all ye need to know.” (“Ode on a Grecian Urn”, Line:
49-50)
• Keats’ cynicism about his life and his impending doom was
seldom of his work. Though he was depressed about death,
he wrote with a strong appreciation of life, love and beauty.
• In a letter to his lover Fanny Brawne, Keats writes, “I have
two luxuries to brood over in my walks, your Loveliness and
the hour of my death… I hate the world: it batters too much
the wrings of my self-will, and would I could take a sweet
poison from your lips to send me out of it.” (1818)

6. • Nature vs. Culture is the number one rule of Romanticism.
• Keats was heavily influenced by ancient mythology; texts by
• Homer
• Dante
• Virgil
• Shakespeare
• Death, sorrow, love and nature are signature trails of Romanticism.
• Lyric and transcendent, that which is beyond human understanding.
• Creation of Art and role of poet.

7. Foremost work of John Keats
• “A Thing of Beauty (Endymion)”
• “Bright Star”
• “La Belle Dame Sans Merci”
• “Ode On A Grecian Urn”
• “Ode To A Nightingale”
• “To Autumn”

8. Quotes of John Keats
“Here lies one whose name was writ in water.”
“I love you the more in that I believe you had liked me for my own sake and for
nothing else.”
“Love is my religion – I could die for it.”
“ I am certain of nothing but the holiness of the heart’s affections, and the truth
of imagination.”
“Heard melodies are sweet, but those unheard are sweeter.”

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