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John K Although his life ended at age 25, only four years after the 1817 publication of his first book, English poet John Keats is remembered for his melodious, rich verse, and is considered one of the greatest English poets From 1803 to 1811 Keats attended school. Toward the end of his schooling. he gan to read widely and even undertook a prose translation of the Aeneid from the Latin. After he left school at the age of 16, Keats was apprenticed to a surgeon for our years ime his interest in poetry grew. He wrote his first poems in 1814 and passed his medical and druggist examinations in 1816 In May 1816 Keats published his first poem, the sonnet"O Solitude, marking the beginning of his poetic career. In writing a sonnet, a 14-line poem with a strict rhyme scheme, Keats sought to take his place in the tradition established by great classical European, and British epic poets GREAT WORKS OF LITERATURE The eve of st agnes John Keats's"The Eve of St. Agnes"(1820) is one of the most famous love poems of the 19th century and of the romantic Movement in literature. According to legend, if a virgin goes to bed without supper on the night of the feast of Saint Agnes she will see her future husband in a dream. As the poem opens, the young maiden Madeline leaves a festival early to carry out the ritual of St. Agnes's Eve. Porphyro, a youth in love with Madeline despite the enmity (E) of Madeline's family, enlists ( Ix) the help of an aging servant to steal into Madeline's room while she is asleep The servant reluctantly agrees, and Porphyro, following an elaborate plan to woo Madeline wins her heart “ Ode on a grecian urn” The poem is written in uniform stanzas, each consisting of ten lines of iamb pentameter. The rime scheme is abab, adedce, with variations in the sester12 John Keats Although his life ended at age 25, only four years after the 1817 publication of his first book, English poet John Keats is remembered for his melodious, rich verse, and is considered one of the greatest English poets. From 1803 to 1811 Keats attended school. Toward the end of his schooling, he began to read widely and even undertook a prose translation of the Aeneid from the Latin. After he left school at the age of 16, Keats was apprenticed to a surgeon for four years. During this time his interest in poetry grew. He wrote his first poems in 1814 and passed his medical and druggist examinations in 1816. In May 1816 Keats published his first poem, the sonnet "O Solitude," marking the beginning of his poetic career. In writing a sonnet, a 14-line poem with a strict rhyme scheme, Keats sought to take his place in the tradition established by great classical, European, and British epic poets. GREAT WORKS OF LITERATURE "The Eve of St. Agnes" John Keats’s “The Eve of St. Agnes” (1820) is one of the most famous love poems of the 19th century and of the Romantic Movement in literature. According to legend, if a virgin goes to bed without supper on the night of the feast of Saint Agnes, she will see her future husband in a dream. As the poem opens, the young maiden Madeline leaves a festival early to carry out the ritual of St. Agnes’s Eve. Porphyro, a youth in love with Madeline despite the enmity (敌意) of Madeline’s family, enlists (谋取) the help of an aging servant to steal into Madeline’s room while she is asleep. The servant reluctantly agrees, and Porphyro, following an elaborate plan to woo Madeline, wins her heart. “Ode on a Grecian Urn” The poem is written in uniform stanzas, each consisting of ten lines of iambic pentameter. The rime scheme is abab, adedce, with variations in the sester
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