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JOHN KEATS - Coggle Diagram
JOHN KEATS
LIFE
1819 was his greatest year: Ode>>> to a Nightingale, on a Grecian Urn, to Autumn, to Melancholy, to Psyche + ballads, sonnets
1820 symptoms of tuberculosis, went to ITALY
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THIRD STANZA: eternal spring and music. love in life VS love in art, human passions >>>pain + sorrow, latter is forever warm, panting, young
FOURTH STANZA: :musical_note: desolation + suffers,
SECOND STANZA: imagination VS sensation; spiritual beauty VS physical beauty. SABATO DEL VILLAGGIO youth will be soon replaced by old age.
FIFTH STANZA: metaphores for the urn, a motionless + passive vase, a friend to men, "Beauty is truth, truth beauty" (chiasmo) Keats' ideal of beauty.
FIRST STANZA: URN living creature with three metaphores, :peace_symbol: + timeless witness of a remote past, :lips: story > than poetry. retorical questions.
POETICS
secondary generation of romantic poets, the contemplation of the cult of beauty, I= UNIVERSAL I
product of his imagination, sense of melancholy caused by his fear of death
blended romantic passions + classicism, influenced by Greek Mythology.
themes: contrast btw reality and imagination, clash btw transience of life and immortality of art.
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ODE ON A GRECIAN URN
a great vase, :eye: in the London British Museum, adorned with figures which evoke scenes of pastoral life
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It is a lyrical composition, divided in five ten-lines stanzas mainly divided into two parts. ABAB CDE