Life
Themes
To Autumn
John Keats
- Beauty
- Negative Capability
- Ancient and Greece
- The role of imagination
- Born in London in 1795
- Well educated at a school in Enfield.
- Early passion for reading poetry.
- Family plagued by death.
- Doomed love story with Fanny Brawne owing to his poverty and bad health
- Own illness tubercolisis.
- Died in 1821 in Rome
Main works
Analysis of the poem
Stylistics devices
1818 ->Endymion
->The Eve of St Agnes
->La Belle Dame Sans Merci
->The great Odes.
1820 -> Hyperion
Themes
- Man and the Nature World
- Time
- Transformation
- Mortality
Structure
- Three stanza structure.
- Each stanza is divided into 2 parts.
- The first part -> 4 lines, ABAB rhyme scheme
- The second part -> 7 lines, rhyme scheme varies: - first stanza -> CDE DCCE -second and third -> CDECDDE
Bright Star
"I'm certain of nothing but the holiness of the heart's affections, and the truth of imagination"