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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".
[30] Charles Patterson argued the relationship of "Ode on a Grecian Urn" as the greatest 1819 ode of Keats: "The meaningfulness and range of the poem, along with its controlled execution and powerfully suggestive imagery, entitle it to a high place among Keats's great odes. It lacks the even finish and extreme perfection of "To Autumn" but is ...
While ode-writers from antiquity adhered to rigid patterns of strophe, antistrophe, and epode, the form by Keats's time had undergone enough transformation that it represented a manner rather than a set method for writing a certain type of lyric poetry. Keats's odes seek to find a "classical balance" between two extremes, and in the structure ...
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).
Specimen of an Induction to a Poem (1816) Calidore (1816) Hadst thou Liv’d in Days of Old (1816) I Stood Tiptoe Upon a Little Hill (1816) I am as Brisk (1816) On Oxford (1817) O Grant that Like to Peter I (1817) Think not of it, Sweet One (1817) Unfelt, Unheard, Unseen (1817) In Drear-Nighted December (1817) Modern Love (1818) The Castle ...
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.”
The essay is dedicated to John Keats, "for his general surrender to beauty." In his "Ode on a Grecian Urn", Keats concludes that "Beauty is truth, truth beauty,–that is all / Ye know on earth, and all ye need to know." Each section in the essay begins with a quote from Keats, and the collection as a whole is framed by his aphorism "Beauty is ...