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John Keats dedicated this poem to the late poet Thomas Chatterton. The poem begins with the line "A thing of beauty is a joy for ever". Endymion is written in rhyming couplets in iambic pentameter (also known as heroic couplets). Keats based the poem on the Greek myth of Endymion, the shepherd beloved of the moon goddess Selene.
The poem's reliance on the process of sleeping is common to Keats's poems, and "Ode to a Nightingale" shares many of the same themes as Keats' Sleep and Poetry and Eve of St. Agnes. This further separates the image of the nightingale's song from its closest comparative image, the urn as represented in "Ode on a Grecian Urn".
A thing of beauty is a joy for ever: Its loveliness increases; it will never. Pass into nothingness; — John Keats, Endymion. Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature (for instance, Irish or France).
Harold Bloom suggests that this provides the poem with a hint of Keats's philosophy of negative capability, as only the beauty that will die meets the poem's standard of true beauty. [18] The image of the bursting of Joy's grape (line 28) gives the poem a theme of sexuality.
Tracing of an engraving of the Sosibios vase by Keats "Ode on a Grecian Urn" is a poem written by the English Romantic poet John Keats in May 1819, first published anonymously in Annals of the Fine Arts for 1819 [1] (see 1820 in poetry).
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When I Have Fears" is an Elizabethan sonnet by the English Romantic poet John Keats. The 14-line poem is written in iambic pentameter and consists of three quatrains and a couplet. Keats wrote the poem between 22 and 31 January 1818. [1] It was published (posthumously) in 1848 in Life, Letters, and Literary Remains, of John Keats by Richard ...
Inner beauty quotes. 31. “Outer beauty turns the head, but inner beauty turns the heart.” —Helen J. Russell. 32. “When beauty lives in the heart, it doesn’t need to show up anywhere else.”