Thinking Activities John Keats

Keats: Finding out approaches to Death in Literature

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Here is my blog on Thinking Activity on John Keats: Finding out approaches to Death in Literature given by Dr. Heenaba Zala, Department of English.


In our curriculum we have a romantic literature paper in which a unit about John Keats and we learned about his poetry. His poem about death. Therefore, our work is about how death is usually done by other authors in the literature. First we talk about John Keats and his poem about death, and how we usually deal with death by other writers. Task given by Professor D amaina Heena ma'm Zala of the English Department.


  When we hear the word "death" we fear that something is wrong with us and our loved one. People do not want to hear and talk about death. Death is the reality cycle of our lives. We know why one day death brings more fear to us than death. People are scared to death. We are scared about the death of the one we love. Death came at a time in our lives. Why we do not accept the reality of life. People do not want to talk about death. But we can see that in literature, writers have a tendency toward death. In various forms of literature we can see that many authors use the theme of death. Death is the most beloved and favorite subject for the author. Death is the law of nature. We cannot disturb it; if we try to do so, it leads to our destruction.


  Not only is the literary description of death busy with the tragic scene of death or personal loss, but the concept of death can be understood as the site of many speculations and fantasies, and as a metaphor for many social issues. Literature can also discuss death through metaphors and characterization. Literature can provide us with ways to approach death and imagination from different perspectives. Some literary genres (illusions) have been deliberately written as reactions to the loss of a favorite thing or person, and can serve as a consolation for those who suffer from literature. Death exists in the literature on several levels: it is part of stories, fantasies, metaphors, and character traits: it reaches beyond its own sphere of literature and discusses social issues and emotions related to death that the reader recognizes.

John Keats :

John Keats was born in Moorgate, London, on 31 October 1795 to Thomas Keats and his wife, Frances Jennings. There is little evidence of his exact birthplace. Although Keats and his family seem to have marked his birthday on 29 October, baptism records give the date as the 31st. He was the eldest of four surviving children; his younger siblings were George (1797–1841), Thomas (1799–1818), and Frances Mary "Fanny" (1803–1889) who eventually married Spanish author Valentín Llanos Gutiérrez. Another son was lost in infancy. His father first worked as a hostler at the stables attached to the Swan and Hoop Inn, an establishment he later managed, and where the growing family lived for some years. Keats believed that he was born at the inn, a birthplace of humble origins, but there is no evidence to support his belief.

Licking devotion to beauty and poetry is even more noteworthy considering its inferior origin. John Keats was a famous poet.

  John Keats has four odes, on a Grecian noun, a Nightingale, two autumn and psyche. These poems are like a festive invitation. De Do to a Nightingale can find four things: a love of sensual beauty, a touch of pessimism, a completely pagan concept of nature and strong individualism.

"The Death of the Ball  Turret Gunner" :

The action of this poem is very direct. A soldier goes into battle at the bombardment of a Bomber-2 bomber. He's killed. The poem is written in the voice of a dead pilot.

"The Death of the Turret Gunner" is a five-volume poem by Randall Jarl, published in 1945. It is the death of a gunman in a spy bomber in the American bomber aircraft of World War II. Jarrell was the perfect person to write a final war poem. He was not just some poet who decided to write about the brutality of war from the outside. That was the real deal. He was not a ball tower gunner, but he was not a tower operator working with the bomber crew.

Shakespeare's King Lear :

Tragedy usually represents a meaningful and dramatic physical death that prolongs the scene of death, as based on the classical, tragic tragedy in Shakespeare's King Lear, and the play often ends with the tragic hero's premature death. Development of some kings of self-belief. The meaningful existence of the hero in the tragedy is paradoxically created by his death. Literature offers insights into death, death, and morality in many ways.

  We have no reliable information about death as an experience, and it emphasizes the nature of death as a secret and mysterious event. Death is the bitter truth of human life. Usually people are scared to death. But death is one of the authors' most interesting and favorite topics in literature.