John Keats

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John Keats

• Week 7

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John Keats   (1795 - 1821) Born  October 31,
1795Moorfields, London, EnglandDied  February
23, 1821Rome, Italy
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John Keats

• The excellence of every art is its intensity,
  capable of making all disagreables evaporate from
  their being in close relationship with Beauty and
  Truth."

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Beauty (from Endymion)

• A THING of beauty is a joy for ever
• Its lovliness increases it will never
• Pass into nothingness but still will keep
• A bower quiet for us, and a sleep
• Full of sweet dreams, and health, and quiet
  breathing.

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John Keats
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This sketch was made by Joseph Severn as he
watched over the dying poet at 26 Piazza di
Spagna, Rome.
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Here lies One Whose Name is writ in Water
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from Lamia, Isabella, c. 1820

•    Ode to a Nightingale    Ode on a Grecian Urn
     To Autumn
•    Ode on Melancholy
•      Ode to Psyche

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Grecian Urn
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Greek urns
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a reflection on the pleasure and beauty of an Urn
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Eternity

• The poet sees the Urn as an embodiment of
  permanence, thriving in the passing of time,
  Thou foster-child of silence and slow time,
  /Sylvan historian, who canst thus express /A
  flowery tale. Keats

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reproduction
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reproduction
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The urn

• Keats became enchanted with Greek art after
  seeing an exposition of sculptures from the
  Parthenon, held at the British Museum.

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duplication

• http//www.en.gymfag.dk/doc/DATE-55.htm

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"Ode on a Grecian Ode" is based on a series of
paradoxes and opposites

• the discrepancy between the urn with its frozen
  images and the dynamic life portrayed on the
  urn,
• the human and changeable versus the immortal and
  permanent,
• participation versus observation,
• life versus art.

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Ode to KeatsDurlabh Singh
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More links

• http//englishhistory.net/keats/poetry/odeonagreci
  anurn.html
• http//www.enotes.com/ode-grecian/
• http//englishhistory.net/keats/contents.html

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Homework (I) On Ode on a Grecian Urn

• 1. individual, paired, or group performance
• 2. Read the entire poem and have your response
  in any form.
• 3. advised interpretation, story-telling,
  dramatic performance, background music, speech,
  dialogues, or PowerPoint materials

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Homework (II)

• Draft of Ode to . . . (Five stanzas/50 lines)
  or Story of . . . (1000 words)
• Revise and complete this ode during week 8 to
  week 11.