John Keats (31 October 1795 – 23 February 1821) презентация

John Keats
(31 October 1795 – 23 February 1821)

Plan
1.John's family
2.The first crack of life
3.John has time for everything
4.His ill-wishers
5.Love to landscapes
6. Love of his life
7.The second crack of life
8.Eternal love and crystal life

John Keats was born in London in 1795. His family was close-knit and well-off. Unfortunately, being a young man John lost his parents. His father died when he fell from his horse. Later his mother and younger brother died of tuberculosis.

Because of his parents' death, John had no opportunities to continue studying, he also could not work, though he tried to get fixed up in a detective agency. John left the hospital, where he had had practice (while a student) as a physician pharmacist’s trainee. He went to live in the care of friends, and plunged into the wonderful world of books and poetry.

During his short and life, marred by disease, Keats managed to publish almost everything he had written. In less than 4 years he published three books – two collections with poems, which include sonnets, odes, ballads, and poems "Lamia", "Isabella"; and the poem "Endymion" was published as a separate edition.

A thing of beauty is a joy for ever:
Its loveliness increases; it will never
Pass into nothingness; but still will keep
A bower quiet for us, and a sleep
Full of sweet dreams, and health, and quiet breathing.
by John Keats
(October 31, 1795 – February 23, 1821)
excerpt from Endymion (1818)

Despite the fact that Keats was constantly surrounded by friends, he had ill-wishers. They were sensitive about poet’s criticism towards them. For his scathing and sarcastic remarks, Keats was the one who paid.
English magazines sent thick reviews to the poet, which tore his poems to pieces.

John found his genre in the poetry – the sonnet – quite early. Throughout his life John was very demanding of himself. He travelled across Ireland and Scotland, mountain scenery awakened his imagination.

Read me a lesson, Muse, and speak it loud
Upon the top of Nevis, blind in mist!
I look into the chasms, and a shroud
Vaporous doth hide them; just so much I wist
Mankind do know of Hell. I look o'erhead,
And there is sullen mist; even so much
Mankind can tell of Heaven…
(An excerpt from the sonnet written on the top of the mountain Ben Nevis)

After returning from the trip, John was visiting his friend. There he met Fanny Browne – the girl who lived next door. Soon, she became his Muse and the love of his life. He dedicated a good many poems to her.

Bright star, would I were stedfast as thou art— Not in lone splendour hung aloft the night And watching, with eternal lids apart, Like nature's patient, sleepless Eremite1, The moving waters at their priestlike task Of pure ablution round earth's human shores, Or gazing on the new soft-fallen mask Of snow upon the mountains and the moors— No—yet still stedfast, still unchangeable, Pillowed upon my fair love's ripening breast, To feel forever its soft fall and swell, Awake forever in a sweet unrest, Still, still to hear her tender-taken breath, And so live ever—or else swoon to death.
John Keats : Bright Star

The year after John's health became worse. In the last years of his life Keats felt he was dying.
In 1818 they were engaged had an engagement.

…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.
He offered Fanny to divorce her, to which she disagreed.

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His friend Charles Brown cites the heartbreaking words of the poet, which he said as he saw the blood on his handkerchief for the first time:
«I know the colour of that blood; it is arterial blood; I cannot be deceived in that colour; that drop of blood is my death warrant. I must die. »

The poet went to Italy in the hope to recover from the disease, but he lived there only a few months. He was buried in Rome. On the gravestone, at his request, the inscription says:
"Here lies one whose name was written in water"

After his death for long 10 years Fanny did not take off the mourning and walked across the Heath waste reciting his poemsm

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The first biographer and first publisher of Keats Richard Monkton Milnes brought brief life of the poet to a simple formula: "a Few faithful friends, a few beautiful poems, passionate love and early death."
The thread of existence was cut short before it was
given ...
Pages, like the barn, to accommodate
Countless thoughts Mature grain...
( "When I Have Fears...").