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John Keats

Week 7

John Keats (1795 - 1821)

Born: October 31, 1795Moorfields, London, England

Died: February 23, 1821Rome, Italy

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."

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, a

nd quiet breathing.

John Keats

This sketch was made by Joseph Severn as he watched over the dying poet at 26 Piazza di Spagna, Rome.

Here lies One Whose Name is writ in Water

from Lamia, Isabella, &c. [1820]

   Ode to a Nightingale    Ode on a Grecian Urn    To Autumn

   Ode on Melancholy      Ode to Psyche

Grecian Urn

Greek urns

a reflection on the pleasure and beauty of an Urn

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

reproduction

reproduction

The urn

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

duplication

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

"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.

Ode to KeatsDurlabh Singh

More links

http://englishhistory.net/keats/poetry/odeonagrecianurn.html

http://www.enotes.com/ode-grecian/ http://englishhistory.net/keats/contents.h

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Homework (I): On “Ode on a Grecian Urn”1. individual, paired, or group

performance2. 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

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.