The Poetry Of John Keats
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The casual reader of John Keats' poetry would most certainly be
impressed by the exquisite and abundant detail of it's verse, the perpetual
freshness of it's phrase and the extraordinarily rich sensory images
scattered throughout it's lines. But, without a deeper, more intense
reading of his poems ....
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.... it is the perfection of beauty as art
- transfixed and transfigured forever in the Grecian Urn - and in the Ode
to Autumn it is the exquisiteness of the season - idealised and
immortalised as part of the natural cycle - which symbolise eternal and
idealistic images of profound beauty.
In Ode to a Nightingale, Keats uses the central symbol of a bird to
exemplify the perfect beauty in nature. The nightingale sings to the poet's
senses whose ardour for it's song makes the bird eternal and ....
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