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BY: AUSTEN DUNN, TONY WASHINGTON, LINDSAY DAWSON AND SOFIE WACHTMEISTER
The Life and Influence of
John Keats
Biography: Childhood
• Thomas Keats• October 31, 1795• Craven Street• Schooling• April 16, 1804• William Rawlings• Grandmother
Biography: The Start of His Career
• Richard Abbey• Apprenticeship• 1814• “The Examiner”
Biography: Adulthood and Literature
Friendships B.R. Haydon, William Wordsworth, Leigh Hunt
“Endymion”Fanny BrawneRomeDied: February 23, 1821
Tuberculosis
Mycobacterium tuberculosis Robert KochContagious Symptoms“The most fatal disease known to man” 1800
Here Keats is shown on his death bed from tuberculosis.
Literature
BeautyWomenNatureImagination
Time Period Background
Industrial RevolutionPovertyVictorian Era and women
Dress
Poem 1: When I Have Fears that I Might Cease to Be
When I have fears that I may cease to be Before my pen has gleaned my teeming
brain, Before high-pilèd books, in charact'ry, Hold like rich garners the full-ripened grain; When I behold, upon the night's starred face, Huge cloudy symbols of a high romance, And think that I may never live to trace, Their shadows, with the magic hand of
chance; And when I feel, fair creature of an hour That I shall never look upon thee more, Never have relish in the faery power Of unreflecting love;--then on the shore Of the wide world I stand alone, and think, Till Love and Fame to nothingness do sink.
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Poem 2: On First Looking into Chapman’s Homer
Much have I travel'd in the realms of gold, And many goodly states and kingdoms seen; Round many western islands have I been Which bards in fealty to Apollo hold. Oft of one wide expanse had I been told That deep-brow'd Homer ruled as his
demesne; Yet did I never breathe its pure serene Till I heard Chapman speak out loud and
bold: Then I felt I like some watcher of the skies When a new planet swims into his ken; Or like stout Cortez when with eagle eyes He star'd at the Pacific -- and all his men Look'd at each other with a wild surmise – Silent, upon a peak in Darien.
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Poem Annotation
Poem 1: When I Have Fears that I Might Cease to Be Rhyme Scheme– Shakespearean Sonnet autobiographical
Poem 2: On First Looking into Chapman’s Homer Petrarchan Sonnet– a little different Favorite authors, poets The influence of poetry and the power of words
Ties to Romanticism
DefinitionNot stories anymoreEmotions and imagination
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Schiffman, George. "Tuberculosis (TB)." Medicine Net. 1996. 5 Mar. 2009 <http://www.medicinenet.com/tuberculosis/article.htm#toca>.
"romanticism - Definition from the Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary." Dictionary and Thesaurus - Merriam-Webster Online. 12 Mar. 2009 <http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/romanticism>.
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