文档介绍：English Literature
Lecture 8: Romanticism in England ( II )
John Keats 济慈
Although his life ended at age 25, only four years after the 1817 publication of his first book, English poet John Keats is remembered for his melodious, rich verse, and is considered one of the greatest English poets.
Endymion
Isabella
The Eve of Saint Agnes
Ode on a Grecian Urn 希腊古瓮颂
Ode to a Nightingale 夜莺颂
To Autumn 秋颂
Of Keat’s longer poems the more important ones are Lamia, The Eve of St. Agnes and Isabella. All these poems deal with the theme of love and the cost of the true lovers in the society of tyranny and oppression.
Among Keat’s shorter poems, the most important pieces are his immortal odes, including mainly Ode to Autumn, Ode on Melancholy, Ode to a Nightingale and Ode on a Grecian Urn. The last two odes have generally been considered jointly as the height of Keat’s poetic achievement. In the two odes full of rich poetic imagery, enchanting lyricism and well-nigh perfect turns of phrase, Keats shows his
immense admiration for lasting beauty in the world of art as well as his intense personal yearning for freedom from human miseries.
Ode to a nightingale is generally known to have been written after the poet had an actual experience of listening to the nightingale singing one day. The poem consists of eight stanzas and each stanza has ten lines. In the poem, Keats relates what happens in his mind while he is listening to the song of a nightingale. In the first stanza the poet shows himself in a state of fortable drowsiness under the magic of the nightingale’s song. Envying the happiness of the bird, Keats longs for a draught of wine which take him out of himself and allow
him to join his existence with that of the bird, and by the power of wine and imagination he could leave the world in which life is full of pain and misery, sorrow and despair, and the world in which the young die and the old suffer. Here we can see clearly the poet’s inner contradiction between ugly so