Hi friends hope you all have a great day ahead. Today i am going to share you all about great author John Keats. He is the son of Thomas Keats, an Ostler, was educated at a less expensive primary school in Enfield near London. It was Charles Cowden Clark, his friend who introduced him to the works of Spencer, whose faerie queen inspired him greatly. From 1811 to 1815 he was apprenticed to a physician. However, his irresistible fascination for poetry and the encouragement of his brothers induced him to abandon his medical profession in favor of the poetic vocation. His first volume of poems appeared in 1817 and within two years, he reached the peak of his poetic career. On first Looking into Chapman’s Homer, Isabella, Hyperion, The Eve of St. Agnes, The Eve of st.mark, the odes, la belle dame sans Merci, Lamia and Endymion are some of his well-known poems. In September, 1820, he fell seriously ill, and left London for Naples. The change of climate however, did him no good and he died on February 23rd, 1821 at Rome.
Ode on a Grecian Urn, inspired by the Elgin Marbles, contrasts the unsatisfying human life with art, which is everlastingly beautiful; what life loses in reality, art gains in permanence. The sight or the imagination of a piece of ancient sculpture has set the poet’s mind at work, on the one hand, conjuring up the scenes of ancient life and worship which lay behind and suggested the sculptured images; ad on the other, speculating on the abstract relations of plastic art to life. Keats closes the ode by consigning the message of the urn to the future generations. Thanks and Regards.
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