英语专业英国文学课件18Keats.pptVIP

RomanticismJohn Keats(1795-1821) I.Background Critics agree that Keats is, with Shakespeare, Milton and Wordsworth, one of the great English poets. Born in London, son of a livery-stable owner who died when the boy was nine (poor family) 2. Clarke’s School, inclination toward poetry 3. 15,apprenticed to a surgeon and apothecary. Later, he studied medicine at Guy’s Hospital in London---licensed apothecary but not practice much 4. Devote to poetry, reading much of Spenser, Milton and Homer 5. Influenced by Hunt(radical journalist and minor poet), developed a taste for liberal politics and for the fine arts 6. Becoming mature because of sufferings II.Literary Ideas Love of nature and poetry 2. Eulogize the beauty, loveliness and happiness of nature 3. believe that poetry and art is immortal 4. Human life is transient, suffering and full of agony III.Works Endymion(1818) (based on the Greek myth of Endymion and moon goddess) Esabella(1820) 1818-1820 Ode on Melancholy Ode on a Grecian Urn Ode to a Nightingale Ode to Psyche To Autumn (lyric masterpiece) Hyperion (unfinished) Writing Style Keats’s poetry is sensuous, colorful and rich in imagery which expresses the acuteness of his senses. Sight, sound, scent, taste and feeling are all taken in to give an entire understanding of an experience. He has the power of entering the feeling of other human or animal He delights to dwell on beautiful words and phrases which sound musical Vivid and rich imagery, he paints poetic pictures full of wonderful color Analysis of famous works 1. Ode to a Nightingale 2. Ode on a Grecian Urn 3.On First Looking Into Chapman’s Homer I Died for Beauty, but was Scarce I died for beauty, but was scarce Adjusted in the tomb, When one who died for truth was lain In an adjoining room. He questioned softly why I failed? For beauty, I replied. And I for truth, -the two are one; We brethren are, he said. And so, as kinsmen met a night, We tal