Poem To one who has been long in city pent Ode to a Nightingale On First Looking into Chapman’s Homer Main Theme(s)
„„Nature „„Freedom „„Happiness
„„Nature „„Imagination „„Power of poetry
„„Enlightenment „„Exploration „„Art „„Power of poetry
Ode on a Grecian Urn
„„Art „„Truth „„Beauty „„Death
When I have fears that I may cease to be „„ Death „„Art
„„Loneliness „„Power of poetry
La Belle Dame sans Merci
„„Supernatural „„Misogyny „„Destructive power of love „„Death
To Autumn
Bright star, would I were steadfast as thou art
NATURE
Like all Romantic poets, Keats explores the theme of nature throughout his poetry. In ‘To Autumn’, Keats celebrates the changing seasons by focusing on the season that sees the greatest changes of all: ‘Season of mists and mellow fruitfulness’. He admires the harmony and synchrony of nature, and how autumn is ‘conspiring’ with the ‘maturing sun’: ‘to load and bless/ With fruit the vines that round the thatch-eves run’. He finds great restoration and joy in nature. In ‘Ode to a Nightingale’ he celebrates its ability to make us happy: ‘Dance, and Provençal song, and sunburnt mirth!’ In ‘To one who has been long in city pent’ we see how nature can be a balm to a troubled spirit: ‘Who is more happy, when, with heart’s content,/Fatigued he sinks into some pleasant lair/ Of wavy grass’.
