Keats's poems are famous for beauty,and Ode to Autumn is generally regarded as one of his most beautiful poems.In this ode,Keats presents a vivid picture of the harvesting autumn,in which many forms of beauty can ...Keats's poems are famous for beauty,and Ode to Autumn is generally regarded as one of his most beautiful poems.In this ode,Keats presents a vivid picture of the harvesting autumn,in which many forms of beauty can be captured.The present paper attempts to conduct an analysis of the beauty in Keats's Ode to Autumn,hopefully it could help readers better understand Keats and his works.展开更多
"Beauty is truth, truth beauty"-the famous line in English romantic poet John Keats'Ode on a Grecian Urn-has triggered wide discussion and numerous interpretations. From the point of"negative capabi..."Beauty is truth, truth beauty"-the famous line in English romantic poet John Keats'Ode on a Grecian Urn-has triggered wide discussion and numerous interpretations. From the point of"negative capability", a phrase first coined by Keats himself, this paper is attempting to display the consistency between that poetic line and the poet's creation and life attitude on the whole. For this purpose, this paper will mainly introduce and interpret five of Keats'famous odes in the order of their display of his"rising acceptance of life": Ode to a Nightingale, Ode on a Grecian Urn, Ode to Autumn, Ode on Melancholy and Ode on Indolence. This paper would like to show in the first three Keats's positive quest in different aspects and on certain levels, the fourth the underlying tone of life's polyphonous song, and the final the"negative capability"that constitutes his healthy attitude toward creation and life. Finally, this paper hopes to demonstrate that it is such capability that enables the poet to growingly accept life, and it is also essential to him as a philosophical poet.展开更多
In our daily life, we come across many things, a flower, a bird, a vase, or a picture, for example, without seeing them, or to be exact, without paying them any special attention. To ordinary eyes, they are what they ...In our daily life, we come across many things, a flower, a bird, a vase, or a picture, for example, without seeing them, or to be exact, without paying them any special attention. To ordinary eyes, they are what they are. But to the sharp, sensitive eyes of a poet, every object has its own beauty, and carries a message deeper than what it seems to do. Through his artistic work, the poet reveals to us the beauty and truth that are hidden from our mediocre eyes, and enables us to enjoy the beauty and see the truth that nature endows to its creations. An American critic once said,"All art展开更多
Apart from poetry, John Keats＇s concise remarks on poetics scatter miscellaneously in his other writings, whichhave been less studied compared with that of Keats＇s contemporary romantic poets. However, those terse r...Apart from poetry, John Keats＇s concise remarks on poetics scatter miscellaneously in his other writings, whichhave been less studied compared with that of Keats＇s contemporary romantic poets. However, those terse remarksconstitute his deep perception on romantic poetry, many of which are now still glistening with their unique value.Based upon close reading upon Keats＇s poetical works and letters as well as later critics＇ books on poetry, thispaper intends to make a systematic study of Keats＇s poetics. Aiming at illustrating Keats＇ poetics, this paper fallsinto three parts--the first part being ＂Inspiration： Poetry as John Keats＇s Life＂, the second ＂Perspiration： NaturalGenius Plus Exquisite Revision＂, and the third ＂Perfection： the Aeolian Lyre＂.展开更多
This essay is a culmination of intensive research exploring the commonality between Dr. John Keats＇ poetry and the lyrics of The Grateful Dead. As this is the 50th anniversary of The Grateful Dead, it is appropriate ...This essay is a culmination of intensive research exploring the commonality between Dr. John Keats＇ poetry and the lyrics of The Grateful Dead. As this is the 50th anniversary of The Grateful Dead, it is appropriate to celebrate that with a scholarly paper. In teaching my course The GrateJid Dead as Poets I discovered compelling intersections between English Romantic poetry and the lyrics of The Grateful Dead. These findings are useful and important because the work of the Dead spans five decades and endures in ways that assure their place in literary history as well as the music world. The importance of The Grateful Dead cannot be overstated. They bring hope, love, joy and philanthropy to the world, as did the English Romantic poets. There is much yet to explore; this essay is about only a few of the many Grateful Dead lyrics.展开更多
John Keats, a good observer and interpreter of Mother Nature, makes a life-time quest for the beauty of nature and themeaning of life in his poems. Likewise, Tagore, a world-renowned Indian poet, is also a nature-wors...John Keats, a good observer and interpreter of Mother Nature, makes a life-time quest for the beauty of nature and themeaning of life in his poems. Likewise, Tagore, a world-renowned Indian poet, is also a nature-worshiper and writes under thedeep influence of European Romanticism.This paper is to explore the similarities and differences of the two poets' contemplationupon life and death in their view of nature, focusing on Ode to a Nightingale by Keats and Fruit-Gathering by Tagore, aiming tobetter understand the two great poet's poetics in a comparative dimension.展开更多
The paper investigates the literary connections between nineteenth-century American poet Emily Dickinson(1830-1886)and Yang Mu(1940-2020),an award-winning Taiwan Residents poet.As a fellow admirer of the Romantic poet...The paper investigates the literary connections between nineteenth-century American poet Emily Dickinson(1830-1886)and Yang Mu(1940-2020),an award-winning Taiwan Residents poet.As a fellow admirer of the Romantic poet John Keats like Dickinson,Yang Mu showed great enthusiasm for Dickinson,expressing his passion for her in a post modernist poem“September 27th's Emily Dickinson”in the early 1970s.Dickinson also sought literary guidance at the inception of her poetic career,writing to the then editor of The Atlantic Monthly Thomas W.Higginson,after reading his“Letter to a Young Contributor”in April 1862.Their works inform a shared investment between the two writers in their Keatsian aesthetics,concerns about poetic fame,and experimentation with poetic forms during times of surging national cultural sentiments.Recent scholarships by critics like Cristanne Miller,Roland Hagenbichle,Paraic Finnerty,Paul Giles and Domhnall Mitchell,among many oth-ers,have placed Dickinson's poetry squarely in a global context.In a similar vein,critics like Lawrence R.Smith,Michelle Yeh,Stephen Owen,Anthony C.Yu,and Lisa Lai-ming Wong also perceive Yang Mu as a world poet who practices bicul-turalism by blending eastern and western cultures.Building upon previous scholar-ships,the paper examines how Yang Mu plays a role of not only an admirer and a fellow poet,but also a surrogate mentor in“September 27th's Emily Dickinson”,replacing Higginson's editorial advice for and“surgical”treatment of Dickinson.Reversely,Dickinson's poem“There's a certain Slant of light”(1862)illuminates how Yang Mu's translation of this poem of Dickinson in The Completion of a Poem(1989)and his later four poems“Rays of the Searching sun”(1996)transplant Dick-inson's latc-Romantic,proto-modernist poetic quest onto his own post-Romantic,postmodern poetics.This East-West literary resonance demonstrated in these poems reveals the“cosmopolitan”potentiality embraced by both poets,shedding light on the significance of placing the transmission,circulation and evolution of poetic dialogues in a transcultural context.展开更多
In this essay, the author proposes to explore Mansfield＇s ＂special prose＂ by examining the two issues raised in her journal entries： First, the phrase ＂perhaps not in poetry. No, perhaps in Prose＂ in her journal...In this essay, the author proposes to explore Mansfield＇s ＂special prose＂ by examining the two issues raised in her journal entries： First, the phrase ＂perhaps not in poetry. No, perhaps in Prose＂ in her journal entry of 22 January 1916 shows that Mansfield plans to experiment with a kind of poetic prose, or in her own words--＂special prose＂. The profound affinity between the ＂special prose＂ and the notion of elegy, ＂a mournful poem for the dead＂ （OED, ＂elegy＂, n. sense 1）, calls attention to her work＇s decisive but still insufficiently examined relationship to poetry and her preoccupation with mortality. Second, the words ＂scraps＂, ＂bits＂, and ＂nothing real finished＂ in her journal entry of 19 February 1918 indicate that the mortal fragility she writes about in her ＂special prose＂ is closely bound up with verbal fragility, as embodied, for example, in the form of an ellipsis mark that she uses extensively elsewhere in her short stories. Her connection to poetry and her use of ellipsis marks will be discussed by looking at the impact of John Keats＇s poems on her own work and ＂The Canary＂ （1922）, the last story she completed before her death.展开更多
To write about art and literature depicting London is often to write about Romantic poetry and novels,and to draw attention to the green and pleasant parts of the lands as hills,vales,woods,and all their rural relativ...To write about art and literature depicting London is often to write about Romantic poetry and novels,and to draw attention to the green and pleasant parts of the lands as hills,vales,woods,and all their rural relatives.Urban areas are often cast as dark mills,restaurants with oyster-shells,hospitals,and underground stations,for example,whilst rural places are celebrated,but their inspiration and beauty is to be found in the more civic depictions.Such poems and novels can enable us to envisage the city in a new life and even uncover the histories of a place.This paper will shed light on London in the eyes of literature,both as a civic and a cultural city,in order to draw more attention to the city as both an urban and rural place.This paper will also shed light on the great poets as William Wordsworth,John Keats,D.H.Laurence,and novelists such as Charles Dickens,Sam Selvon Salvo,and Virginia Woolf.展开更多
John Keats is an famous English Romantic poet. His poem Ode to A Nightingale are mostly read by readers all over the world. In China, many scholars have analyzed the ode from various perspectives, especially death. Bu...John Keats is an famous English Romantic poet. His poem Ode to A Nightingale are mostly read by readers all over the world. In China, many scholars have analyzed the ode from various perspectives, especially death. But the short paper will not only analyze the death, but also the life in the ode. Keats loves death, and praises life.展开更多
文摘Keats's poems are famous for beauty,and Ode to Autumn is generally regarded as one of his most beautiful poems.In this ode,Keats presents a vivid picture of the harvesting autumn,in which many forms of beauty can be captured.The present paper attempts to conduct an analysis of the beauty in Keats's Ode to Autumn,hopefully it could help readers better understand Keats and his works.
文摘"Beauty is truth, truth beauty"-the famous line in English romantic poet John Keats'Ode on a Grecian Urn-has triggered wide discussion and numerous interpretations. From the point of"negative capability", a phrase first coined by Keats himself, this paper is attempting to display the consistency between that poetic line and the poet's creation and life attitude on the whole. For this purpose, this paper will mainly introduce and interpret five of Keats'famous odes in the order of their display of his"rising acceptance of life": Ode to a Nightingale, Ode on a Grecian Urn, Ode to Autumn, Ode on Melancholy and Ode on Indolence. This paper would like to show in the first three Keats's positive quest in different aspects and on certain levels, the fourth the underlying tone of life's polyphonous song, and the final the"negative capability"that constitutes his healthy attitude toward creation and life. Finally, this paper hopes to demonstrate that it is such capability that enables the poet to growingly accept life, and it is also essential to him as a philosophical poet.
文摘In our daily life, we come across many things, a flower, a bird, a vase, or a picture, for example, without seeing them, or to be exact, without paying them any special attention. To ordinary eyes, they are what they are. But to the sharp, sensitive eyes of a poet, every object has its own beauty, and carries a message deeper than what it seems to do. Through his artistic work, the poet reveals to us the beauty and truth that are hidden from our mediocre eyes, and enables us to enjoy the beauty and see the truth that nature endows to its creations. An American critic once said,"All art
文摘Apart from poetry, John Keats＇s concise remarks on poetics scatter miscellaneously in his other writings, whichhave been less studied compared with that of Keats＇s contemporary romantic poets. However, those terse remarksconstitute his deep perception on romantic poetry, many of which are now still glistening with their unique value.Based upon close reading upon Keats＇s poetical works and letters as well as later critics＇ books on poetry, thispaper intends to make a systematic study of Keats＇s poetics. Aiming at illustrating Keats＇ poetics, this paper fallsinto three parts--the first part being ＂Inspiration： Poetry as John Keats＇s Life＂, the second ＂Perspiration： NaturalGenius Plus Exquisite Revision＂, and the third ＂Perfection： the Aeolian Lyre＂.
文摘This essay is a culmination of intensive research exploring the commonality between Dr. John Keats＇ poetry and the lyrics of The Grateful Dead. As this is the 50th anniversary of The Grateful Dead, it is appropriate to celebrate that with a scholarly paper. In teaching my course The GrateJid Dead as Poets I discovered compelling intersections between English Romantic poetry and the lyrics of The Grateful Dead. These findings are useful and important because the work of the Dead spans five decades and endures in ways that assure their place in literary history as well as the music world. The importance of The Grateful Dead cannot be overstated. They bring hope, love, joy and philanthropy to the world, as did the English Romantic poets. There is much yet to explore; this essay is about only a few of the many Grateful Dead lyrics.
文摘John Keats, a good observer and interpreter of Mother Nature, makes a life-time quest for the beauty of nature and themeaning of life in his poems. Likewise, Tagore, a world-renowned Indian poet, is also a nature-worshiper and writes under thedeep influence of European Romanticism.This paper is to explore the similarities and differences of the two poets' contemplationupon life and death in their view of nature, focusing on Ode to a Nightingale by Keats and Fruit-Gathering by Tagore, aiming tobetter understand the two great poet's poetics in a comparative dimension.
文摘The paper investigates the literary connections between nineteenth-century American poet Emily Dickinson(1830-1886)and Yang Mu(1940-2020),an award-winning Taiwan Residents poet.As a fellow admirer of the Romantic poet John Keats like Dickinson,Yang Mu showed great enthusiasm for Dickinson,expressing his passion for her in a post modernist poem“September 27th's Emily Dickinson”in the early 1970s.Dickinson also sought literary guidance at the inception of her poetic career,writing to the then editor of The Atlantic Monthly Thomas W.Higginson,after reading his“Letter to a Young Contributor”in April 1862.Their works inform a shared investment between the two writers in their Keatsian aesthetics,concerns about poetic fame,and experimentation with poetic forms during times of surging national cultural sentiments.Recent scholarships by critics like Cristanne Miller,Roland Hagenbichle,Paraic Finnerty,Paul Giles and Domhnall Mitchell,among many oth-ers,have placed Dickinson's poetry squarely in a global context.In a similar vein,critics like Lawrence R.Smith,Michelle Yeh,Stephen Owen,Anthony C.Yu,and Lisa Lai-ming Wong also perceive Yang Mu as a world poet who practices bicul-turalism by blending eastern and western cultures.Building upon previous scholar-ships,the paper examines how Yang Mu plays a role of not only an admirer and a fellow poet,but also a surrogate mentor in“September 27th's Emily Dickinson”,replacing Higginson's editorial advice for and“surgical”treatment of Dickinson.Reversely,Dickinson's poem“There's a certain Slant of light”(1862)illuminates how Yang Mu's translation of this poem of Dickinson in The Completion of a Poem(1989)and his later four poems“Rays of the Searching sun”(1996)transplant Dick-inson's latc-Romantic,proto-modernist poetic quest onto his own post-Romantic,postmodern poetics.This East-West literary resonance demonstrated in these poems reveals the“cosmopolitan”potentiality embraced by both poets,shedding light on the significance of placing the transmission,circulation and evolution of poetic dialogues in a transcultural context.
文摘In this essay, the author proposes to explore Mansfield＇s ＂special prose＂ by examining the two issues raised in her journal entries： First, the phrase ＂perhaps not in poetry. No, perhaps in Prose＂ in her journal entry of 22 January 1916 shows that Mansfield plans to experiment with a kind of poetic prose, or in her own words--＂special prose＂. The profound affinity between the ＂special prose＂ and the notion of elegy, ＂a mournful poem for the dead＂ （OED, ＂elegy＂, n. sense 1）, calls attention to her work＇s decisive but still insufficiently examined relationship to poetry and her preoccupation with mortality. Second, the words ＂scraps＂, ＂bits＂, and ＂nothing real finished＂ in her journal entry of 19 February 1918 indicate that the mortal fragility she writes about in her ＂special prose＂ is closely bound up with verbal fragility, as embodied, for example, in the form of an ellipsis mark that she uses extensively elsewhere in her short stories. Her connection to poetry and her use of ellipsis marks will be discussed by looking at the impact of John Keats＇s poems on her own work and ＂The Canary＂ （1922）, the last story she completed before her death.
文摘To write about art and literature depicting London is often to write about Romantic poetry and novels,and to draw attention to the green and pleasant parts of the lands as hills,vales,woods,and all their rural relatives.Urban areas are often cast as dark mills,restaurants with oyster-shells,hospitals,and underground stations,for example,whilst rural places are celebrated,but their inspiration and beauty is to be found in the more civic depictions.Such poems and novels can enable us to envisage the city in a new life and even uncover the histories of a place.This paper will shed light on London in the eyes of literature,both as a civic and a cultural city,in order to draw more attention to the city as both an urban and rural place.This paper will also shed light on the great poets as William Wordsworth,John Keats,D.H.Laurence,and novelists such as Charles Dickens,Sam Selvon Salvo,and Virginia Woolf.
文摘John Keats is an famous English Romantic poet. His poem Ode to A Nightingale are mostly read by readers all over the world. In China, many scholars have analyzed the ode from various perspectives, especially death. But the short paper will not only analyze the death, but also the life in the ode. Keats loves death, and praises life.
