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This 6 page paper discusses John Keats’s life and works and argues that he deserves his reputation as one of the great Romantic poets. Bibliography lists 5 sources.
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that John Keats deserves his place in literature. Discussion There are many reasons why John Keats has earned a place in literature and deserves to retain it. First, although he
died when he was only 25, he accomplished as much or more as any of the other important English poets; not in the number of poems or total output, but
in the challenges he faced, the way he worked, and in the sheer beauty of his creations. He published 54 poems in total, but he took his poetry very seriously,
working hard to learn and improve. One critic writes that at "each point in his development he took on the challenges of a wide range of poetic forms from the
sonnet, to the Spenserian romance, to the Miltonic epic" and made each of these forms his own by adding his own "distinctive fusion of earnest energy, control of conflicting perspectives
and forces, poetic self-consciousness, and, occasionally, dry ironic wit" (Kipperman). Kipperman says that in the case of the "five great odes" he wrote in 1819, he brought this poetic form
"to its most perfect definition." Keats had a sense, expressed in both his letters and poetry, that life could be bleak and ironic; he was struck by the "ways in
which evil and beauty, love and pain, aspiration and finitude, are not so much balanced as interwoven in ways that resist philosophical understanding" (Kipperman). But the five great works, "Ode
to Psyche," "Ode to a Nightingale," "Ode on a Grecian Urn," "Ode on Melancholy," and "To Autumn" dont attempt to explain or discuss these qualities and the questions they raise
(Kipperman). Instead, the poems "explore the ironies of our attempts to answer them and of poetrys attempts to articulate them" (Kipperman). That is, the poems examine poetry itself as a
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