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In the following years,troubled by illness and
poverty
Early 1821,his tuberculosis declined
Severn(塞文)accompanied him when Ke died and buried in Protestant
• Summer of 1818,his brother died also of tuberculosis • After that, Keats lived in Hampstead—Keats House Fell in love with his neighbor—Fanny Brawne
John Keats
G0902 王瑜昆 梁月琪
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• 1795~1821,in London • One of the 2nd generation of romantic poets • Famous as Byron and Shelley • Outstanding representative of European Romantic Movement
1785,born in a poor family,2 brothers and 1 sister 1804,his father died
1810,his mother died of tuberculosis(肺结核)
1815,entered a medical school,but gave up within a year 1818~1820,he created most of his works
Cometery Rome. After his death,Fanny mourned him for 7 years and wore his engagement ring till she died
• His last request :to be
buried under an unnamed
On First Looking into Chapman’s Homer (1816): his first important poem Sleep and Poetry (1817): expression of his own poetic aspirations
Five long poems
Major Features of Keats’s Poetry
1. characterized by exact and closely knit construction, sensual description, force of imagination 2. sensuous, colorful and rich in imagery; 3. One great message --- the lasting power of beauty and its union with truth. 4. Major subject matters of his poems –love & beauty and suffering & death
Three Types of Emotions in his Poetry
Positive
• Happiness • Love
Negative
• Sorrow • Melancholy • Death
Neutral
• Solitude • Indolence
His Position in English Literature • Known as a sensuous poet (给人以美的享受的诗人 ). • A voice through which beauty expresses itself. • He is, like Shakespeare, Milton and Wordsworth, one of the indisputable great English poets. • Today his poems and letters are some of the most popular and most analyzed in English literature.
Odes(颂诗,赋） are regarded as Keats’s most
important and mature works. When Keats died in 1821, he was just 25 years old.
Poems，《诗集》1817 Lines in Imitation of Spenser《仿斯宾塞》 (1814): his first poem
Endymion《恩底弥翁》
Isabella 《伊莎贝拉》 The Eve of St. Agnes 《圣亚尼节前夜》 Lamia 《莱米亚》 Hyperion 《赫坡里昂》
Short Poems
1. Ode to a Nightingale “夜莺颂“ 2. On a Grecian Urn“希腊古 瓮颂”. 3. On Melancholy “忧郁颂” 4. When I have Fear“当我害怕的时候” 5. TO Autumn “秋颂” 6. On the Grasshopper and the Cricket“蛐蛐与蟋蟀” 7. Bright Star “闪亮的星星” 8. O Solitude “哦，孤独”

Keats’ life was short--only 25 years, however，if he can live longer, his achievements will be beyond imagination.
Because when he was 24,he made much more contributions than Chaucer, Shakespeare and Milton in the same age.
Published his first book, Poems, in 1817; 1818~1820,he concentrated on his poetry
He produced a variety of work, including
epic, lyric （抒情诗）and narrative poems.
tombstone, with words
”Here lies one whose name was writ in water”
此地长眠着，声名水上书
Apprenticed to a surgeon-apothecary(外科药 剂商） in 1811; Studied medicine at Guy’s Hospital in London from 1815-1816; became a licensed apothecary （药剂师）in 1816;
This is a sonnet,which Keats wrote to his girlfriend Fanny – Brawne.The images of this poem are bright star, the moving waters,snow,love's ripening breast. He combined love,death and enduring thought together to express love, death,life and his dream.This poem was later made into a movie.