“As a Nature Poet” Presentation

Name:Bhumi Vajani M.A.-Sem:2 Roll No:04 Topic:John Keats

and his Odes. Year:2013 Submitted To : Dept

of English- Maharaja Krishnakumarsinhji Bhavnagar University

“John Keats and his Odes”

“JOHN KEATS AND HIS ODES”

ODE

TO NIGHTINGALE

TO AUTUM

N

ON A GRECIAN URN

TO PSYCHE

ODE TO NIGHTINGALE

Three Characters:-

Ode To Nightingale

Speaker(Poet)

Fancy

Ode on a Grecian

Urn

“Urn”-As a work of Art

Pain & Passion in

Abundance

“a wild ecstasy', a lover,s grief, a love ‘for ever

warm and still to be enjoyed”.

Urn-Metamorphoses in to the “Ideal”.

The Poet “reading” the Urn as we “read "his” Ode

ODE

The Oxymoronic cliché of sensibility, pleasant pain-to poetic composition.

Instead of lamenting the indissolubility of pleasure & pain.

Ode To Psyche

Calendar of Nature Georgic Tradition

Sustained naturalism , a maturity & equanimity of town & masterful craft.

The month of the migration of birds, of the finished harvest, of nut-gathering, of cyder & Perry-making

Ode To Autumn

-COMPARISON-CONCLUSION :-

Downer says-Nothing like the odes of Keats is to be found in English Literature of earlier date. He may be said to have created in them a new class of lyrical in them a new class of lyrical poetry.