In my presentation I show the life and works of John Keats.

1. JOHN
KEATS
Presented by
Pallavi Parmar and Bhumiba Gohil
Introduction of

2. • Keats did poetry for the sake of poetry.
THE PURE POET
• He didn’t include social and political
aspects of the time.
• He focused on escapism from the harsh
reality.

3. THE SAD LIFE
OF KEATS
Many deaths happened in his Family
Took debt in order to study in
medical profession but then decided
to be a poet instead.
He earned harsh criticism and
negative reviews for his work
He was afraid he might die at an
early age.
In love with his neighbour Fanny
Braun

4. “When I have fears that I may cease to
be, Before my pen has gleaned my
teeming brain”

5. Keats died in 1821 of Tuberculosis
“Here lies one whose name was writ in
Water”
His speculations were incorrect as he is
remembered fondly even after 200 years
DEATH

6. 1813
Inspired from
Edmund Spencer’s
Faerie Queene
1817
Collection of
Poetry
1818
Retelling of Greek
Legends

7. A thing of Beauty is a joy forever:
It’s loveliness increases; it will never
Pass into nothingness; but still will keep
A bower quite for us, and a sleep
Full of sweet dreams, and health, and quite breathing.

8. 1819
Inspired from
Dryden’s “Fables”
1818
Inspired from
Boccaccio and
Chaucerian Style
Miltonic style and
reminds of Paradise
lost
1818 - 1819

9. Sonnet
Passionate declaration
of undying, constant
love
Themes- Love and
Steadiness
Ode
Praise of Autumn,
describing it’s
abundance, harvest
and transition into
winter
Themes- Beauty and
Death

10. Longest Ode
Speaker is standing in
forest listening to
nightingale
Themes- Death, Time,
Isolation, etc.
How to and how not to
deal with deep sadness
Themes- Melancholy,
Beauty, Impermanence
and Intoxication

11. Ballad
Themes- Love,
Obsession, Death, etc.
Medieval Knight who
meets a fairy woman

12. THY NAME WAS WRITIN WATER— IT
SHALL STAND, AND TEARS LIKE
MINE WILL KEEP THY MEMORY
GREEN
Oscar

13. Thank you!