To Autumn Essay | Essay

This student essay consists of approximately 6 pages of analysis of Romanticism and John Keats.

To Autumn Essay | Essay

This student essay consists of approximately 6 pages of analysis of Romanticism and John Keats.
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Romanticism and John Keats

Summary: An essay on how two poems by John Keats ("Ode to a Nightingale" and "To Autumn") reflects some of the major concerns of its context.
Romanticism is a movement in literature that came as a result of a revolt against the previous period "Classicism." John Keats was an English poet who became one of the most important Romantic poets. William Wordsworth, another significant figure during Romanticism, described it as "liberalism in literature', meaning the artist was free from restraints and rules, and was encouraged to write about his/her own experiences, rather than being a passive narrator praising an event or person. Romanticism emphasizes on passion rather than reason, imagination rather than logic, and intuition rather than science. The Romantics were drawn to the medieval past, myths and legends, supernatural being, and nature.

Keats led a very tragic life. His poems can often be related back to his bitter and sad experiences in life. Many of the ideas in Keats's works are quintessentially of Romantic nature: imagination and creativity, the beauty of nature...

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