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There’s No Avoiding Death:. A Meditation on Keats and Wordsworth’s Poems. Adriana Martinez Traslosheros. There’s no avoiding death: a meditation on Keats and Wordsworth’s poems.
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There’s No Avoiding Death: A Meditation on Keats and Wordsworth’s Poems. Adriana Martinez Traslosheros
There’s no avoiding death: a meditation on Keats and Wordsworth’s poems. • “ There’s no avoiding death: a meditation on Keats and Wordsworth’s poems” is an essay comparing two famous English authors of the Romantic Period: John Keats and William Wordsworth. • Both Keats and Wordsworth lost their parents at a young age and their death had a clear impact on their lives and writing style. • The main purpose is to analyze their work and the role “death” plays for each one of these writers.
Background • Romanticism (1770-1870): • Nature • Symbolism and Myth • Individualism • Nationalism • Revolution Era
Like Two Peas in a Pod: Keats vs. Wordsworth
John Keats • Born in London in October, 1795. • Haunted by constant death in his family. • Medical licence. • Isabella Jones vs. Fanny Brawne. • Moved to Rome with friend Joseph Severn. • Died of tuberculosis in February 1821, at age 25. • Considered to be more accomplished than Chaucer, Shakespeare, and Milton at their age.
Ideals • FascinatedbyAncientGreekCulture. • Socrates and Plato. • Thebodyisprisontothesoul. • Makes death seem like a goal, an occasion worth of happiness and not of grief. • Can’t help his natural instinct of fearing death.
William Wordsworth • Born in April 1770. • Second of five children. • Both parents die; separated from sister Dorothy. • Annette Vallon and Caroline. • Samuel Taylor Coleridge: “Lyrical Ballads with a Few Other Poems” (1798). • Mary Hutchinson. • Died in April 1850, at age 80. • Poet Laureate.
Ideals • French Revolution: freedom and equality. • Nature. • Death of his father vs. death of his mother. • Lucy Poems: Secret love and schizoid disorder. • Rejected complex forms and subjects of his time period.