Selected Ods: John Keats

Selected Ods : John Keats ( 1795- 1821).

John Keats was a very famous figure in the Romantic Age. He was one of the perfect Romantic poet in English Literature. He was famous for his works on various Ods. He becomes famous after his death and so that he lives in our memory for a longer time. He also wrote famous sonnet on, "On First Looking into Chapman's Homer". During 1820 he suffers from tuberculosis. The last days of his life he pretends into The Rome.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Here i shared various Ods by John Keats: 

1) Ode on a Grecian Urn:

 

 

 

In the first stanza, the speaker stands before an ancient Grecian urn and addresses it. He is preoccupied with its depiction of pictures frozen in time.

 

In the second stanza, the speaker looks at another picture on the urn, this time of a young man playing a pipe, lying with his lover beneath a glade of trees. The speaker says that the piper’s “unheard” melodies are sweeter than mortal melodies because they are unaffected by time.

 

  In the third stanza, he looks at the trees surrounding the lovers and feels happy that they will never shed their leaves. He is happy for the piper because his songs will be “for ever new,” and happy that the love of the boy and the girl will last forever, unlike mortal love, which lapses into “breathing human passion” and eventually vanishes, leaving behind only a “burning forehead, and a parching tongue.”

 

In the fourth stanza, the speaker examines another picture on the urn, this one of a group of villagers leading a heifer to be sacrificed. 

 

2) Ode to a Psyche: 

 

 

 

Ode on a Psyche is written in the Spring time. It is an experiment in ode genre. In this sonnets we see that beautiful dramatic  scenes. The season is spring and at that time the beauty of the Nature is sprout. 

 

3) Ode to Autumn: 

 

 

Ode to Autumn is a final work of Keat's collection of poems. It called as 'Keats' 1819 Odes'. This work is a  part of his memory. One day he walk somewhere at the Evening , he describes this thing in his poem. After the publication of this poem he died in Rome.

 

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