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This 5 page paper gives an indepth arguement for Keat's inclusion to the Romantic Era. Examples are cited from two Keat's poems: "Bright Star" and "To One who has been long in City Pent" to support the arguement. Bibliography lists 3 sources.
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agreed upon even today. However, most will agree that there were some compounding characteristics that ran true to a majority of the artistic work that came from the Romantic Era.
One such artist would be the poet, John Keats. One of the major characteristics of the romantic period is the inherent belief in mans goodness,
or the idea that if man were but to return to his natural world he would spiritually better off than in the industrialized civilization (Romanticism). This tone is noted in
these lines from the Keats poem, "Star Bright". "BRIGHT star! would I were steadfast as thou art-
Not in lone splendour hung aloft the night, And watching, with eternal lids apart, Like Natures patient sleepless Eremite,
The moving waters at their priestlike task"(Keats,59). Another characteristic of
the Romantic Era is that there is the tendency toward a good deal of self-analysis. Especially favored by the Romantic poets was the lonely wanderer, or a person on some
sort of heroic quest, or the heroic person trapped and confined by societys dictates or the citys walls. This is evident in Keats poem,
"To One who has been long in City Pent". Notice the juxtaposition of city to natures attributes.
"TO one who has been long in city pent,
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