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BY: AUSTEN DUNN, TONY WASHINGTON, LINDSAY DAWSON AND SOFIE WACHTMEISTER

The Life and Influence of

John Keats

Biography: Childhood

• Thomas Keats• October 31, 1795• Craven Street• Schooling• April 16, 1804• William Rawlings• Grandmother

Biography: The Start of His Career

• Richard Abbey• Apprenticeship• 1814• “The Examiner”

Biography: Adulthood and Literature

Friendships B.R. Haydon, William Wordsworth, Leigh Hunt

“Endymion”Fanny BrawneRomeDied: February 23, 1821

Tuberculosis

Mycobacterium tuberculosis Robert KochContagious Symptoms“The most fatal disease known to man” 1800

Here Keats is shown on his death bed from tuberculosis.

Literature

BeautyWomenNatureImagination

Time Period Background

Industrial RevolutionPovertyVictorian Era and women

Dress

Poem 1: When I Have Fears that I Might Cease to Be

When I have fears that I may cease to be Before my pen has gleaned my teeming

brain, Before high-pilèd books, in charact'ry, Hold like rich garners the full-ripened grain; When I behold, upon the night's starred face, Huge cloudy symbols of a high romance, And think that I may never live to trace, Their shadows, with the magic hand of

chance; And when I feel, fair creature of an hour That I shall never look upon thee more, Never have relish in the faery power Of unreflecting love;--then on the shore Of the wide world I stand alone, and think, Till Love and Fame to nothingness do sink.

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Poem 2: On First Looking into Chapman’s Homer

Much have I travel'd in the realms of gold, And many goodly states and kingdoms seen; Round many western islands have I been Which bards in fealty to Apollo hold. Oft of one wide expanse had I been told That deep-brow'd Homer ruled as his

demesne;  Yet did I never breathe its pure serene Till I heard Chapman speak out loud and

bold: Then I felt I like some watcher of the skies When a new planet swims into his ken; Or like stout Cortez when with eagle eyes He star'd at the Pacific -- and all his men Look'd at each other with a wild surmise – Silent, upon a peak in Darien.

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Poem Annotation

Poem 1: When I Have Fears that I Might Cease to Be Rhyme Scheme– Shakespearean Sonnet autobiographical

Poem 2: On First Looking into Chapman’s Homer Petrarchan Sonnet– a little different Favorite authors, poets The influence of poetry and the power of words

Ties to Romanticism

DefinitionNot stories anymoreEmotions and imagination

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Picture Citations Severn, Joseph. Portrait of John Keats in Rome, shortly before his death from tuberculosis. Digital

image. British Library. 6 Mar. 2009 <http://portico.bl.uk/onlinegallery/features/keats/images/keats-portrait.jpg>.

Severn, Joseph. A Posthumous Portrait. Digital image. 2001. 6 Mar. 2009 <http://www.theosociety.org/pasadena/sunrise/50-00-1/s1fmmc1.jpg>.

Montesacro, Piero. John Keat's Tombstone. Digital image. Wikimedia Commons. 8 Sept. 2007. 3 Mar. 2009 <http://images.google.com/imgres?imgurl=http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/8/87/John_Keats_Tombstone_in_Rome_01.jpg&imgrefurl=http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:John_Keats_Tombstone_in_Rome_01.jpg&usg=__YoaLrZ7IjylURwdg>.

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