ENG308Y1 Lecture 17: Eng308 February 1 2018
Eng308 February 1 2018
John Keats
-studied medicine
-never fully believed that he was going to be a great poet
-cockney school of poetry
-connected to Lee Hunt
-poetry shaped by the fact that he thinks maybe he’ll had a short life tuberculosis
-he was right, died of tuberculosis
-hoped that he would become one of the great English poets
This Living Hand
-focuses on a specific image, develop thoughts and meanings around that specific
image (the hand) (does this a lot)
-a hand to a poet is a tool
-a poet writing about his own hand, looking at the hand while it’s writing
-talking about the experience about creation (does this a lot as well)
-focused on what literature it, what poetry is
-the living hand becomes dead
-thy—the reader?
-also, the relationship between a lover and a loved one
-there are many hands in this poem: has imaginatively transformed the image of a
single hand into many hands
-condenses many meanings
-thinking about the future: people reading this in many years
-used the poem to reach his hand out to us
-brings the poet into being in the act of the writing of the poem
-focusing on a specific image, as if putting it on a monument
-somewhat of a threat: the hand will come back to haunt us
On First Looking into Chapman’s (omer
-keats frequently writes about poetry itself, what poetry means to him
-the impact that looking into Chapman’s (omer had on him
-sonnet
-voice of a wealthy individual who has seen an incredible amount, but has never
been to this one place
-somewhat of a travel narrative—if we didn’t have the title, we’d expect that he was
travelling through the world
-but he is instead travelling through literature
-is this real, or is this fictional, or is this fictional reality?
-Keats wanted fiction to provide him with the things he couldn’t get in real life
-it’s not actually a place, it is a book
-pure serene—the air of literature
-new planet--discovery of what’s inside a book
-two metaphors: one of the planet, the other of Cortez looking out onto the Pacific
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Document Summary
Never fully believed that he was going to be a great poet. Poetry shaped by the fact that he thinks maybe he"ll had a short life (cid:523)tuberculosis(cid:524) Hoped that he would become one of the great english poets. Focuses on a specific image, develop thoughts and meanings around that specific image (the hand) (does this a lot) A hand to a poet is a tool. A poet writing about his own hand, looking at the hand while it"s writing. Talking about the experience about creation (does this a lot as well) Focused on what literature it, what poetry is. Keats frequently writes about poetry itself, what poetry means to him. Also, the relationship between a lover and a loved one. There are many hands in this poem: has imaginatively transformed the image of a single hand into many hands. Thinking about the future: people reading this in many years. Used the poem to reach his hand out to us.
